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Steve Hackett has shared the first new music from his upoming studio album, The Circus And The Nightwhale, which will be released through InsideOutMusic on February 16. Watch the new video for People Of The Smoke below.
“My new album kicks off with People Of The Smoke, where we’re thrown back in time to the smokescape of 1950 London,” Hackett tells Prog. “A baby’s scream becomes a steam train, black smoke invades everything and industry rules the day. This is the place where the album’s story begins…”
The Circus And The Nightwhale will be the first full-blown Hackett concept album since his 1975 solo debut Voyage Of The Acolyte, which followed Genesis‘s 1974 grand double concept affair The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway.
“The Circus And The Nightwhale is an album with a difference,” Hackett adds. “This time it is a story, based both literally and metaphorically on my life… It’s both faction and fiction, beginning in a gritty world of harsh reality, spinning off into a colourful and dark, weird metaphorical universe of wonder turned to terror, with an ultimately beautiful resolve.”
The album features Hackett’s touring band as well as a raft of guests including Amanda Lehmann and Big Big Train‘s Nick D’Virgilio, Hugo Degenhardt return as guests on the drumstool, Benedict Fenner features on keyboards and Malik Mansurov on tar, with Hackett’s brother John once more on flute.
The Circus And The Nightwhale will be available on several different formats, including a limited edition CD and Blu-ray mediabook (including 5.1 Surround Sound and 24-bit high resolution stereo mixes), standard CD jewelcase, gatefold 180g vinyl LP and as digital album.
Hackett will take part in two HMV instore events in London and Birmingham, where he will be taking part in a Q&A and signing albums. Find out more details on those here.
Pre-order The Circus And The Nightwhale.
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STEVE HACKETT Clocks (1979 UK 3-track 12" vinyl single on the blue 'Mad Hatter' Charisma label, also includes Tigermoth and an acoustic set which were both recorded live at Pavillion De Paris on 11th June 1979. The picture sleeve displays a vintage price sticker and shows just light storage wear while the vinyl remains in excellent condition. Prog-tastic! CB34112)
- Steve Hackett - Cured - shrink - UK - vinyl LP - £15.00, $18.30, €17.70 (New Item) (arrived 09-Nov-2024 11:44)on January 20, 2025 at 11:14 am
STEVE HACKETT Cured (1981 UK 8-track LP with black Charisma labels, pressed in France for the UK market, including the singles Hope I Don't Wake & Picture Postcard. Complete with the illustrated lyric inner, the glossy picture sleeve is stillin the open shrinkwrap & the vinyl appears barely played CDS4021)
- Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings - Japanese - vinyl LP - £30.00, $36.60, €35.40 (New Item) (arrived 16-Aug-2024 17:15)on January 20, 2025 at 11:14 am
STEVE HACKETT Spectral Mornings (1979 Japanese 8-track vinyl LP, housed in a back pasted picture sleeve, with Japanese insert and matching obi-strip. The packaging displays only light age wear wear, whilst the vinyl has minimal evidence of play RJ-7601)
- Steve Hackett - At The Edge Of Light - 180gram Vinyl + CD - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £29.99, $36.59, €35.39 (New Item) (arrived 06-Sep-2024 15:13)on January 20, 2025 at 11:14 am
STEVE HACKETT At The Edge Of Light (2019 UK Limited Edition 2-LP set pressed on 180gram Black Vinyl, from the Progressive rock icon, with ten tracks ranging from guitar driven rock to epic orchestration, from world music to the reflectiveand atmospheric, all brought together in his unique style. The album is pressed across three sides of the two vinyl discs with an ETCHING on Side Four and comes complete with Bonus CD of the entire album. Housed in the gatefold picture sleeve with printed insert. The sleeve and vinyl are both in Near Mint condition IOMLP522)
- Steve Hackett - Under A Mediterranean Sky - 180 Gram Etched + CD - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £24.99, $30.49, €29.49 (New Item) (arrived 06-Sep-2024 15:18)on January 20, 2025 at 11:14 am
STEVE HACKETT Under A Mediterranean Sky (2021 UK/EU limited edition 11-track Three Sided 2-LP set pressed Audiophile quality 180 Gram Heavyweight Vinyl with the fourth side etched, housed in a gatefold picture sleeve with booklet and bonus copy of the album on Compact Disc, both sleeve and vinyl are in Near Mint condition )
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