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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 Genesis Revisited Live: Seconds Out & More (2022 UK/EU limited edition remastered 4-LP set with 2-CDs also included and an LP-size booklet, the first vinyl-edition ever of this concert recorded in Manchester and featuring Steve and his amazing band playing the legendary Genesis live LP 'Seconds Out' in full. Housed inside a deluxe gatefold picture sleeve which shows some light shelfwear and grades Excellent, the vinyl is Near Mint. An unforgettable show! IOM603)
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