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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 - Cell 151 - UK - 12" vinyl - £12.00, $15.12, €14.52 (New Item) (arrived 03-Dec-2024 18:00)on December 21, 2024 at 6:37 pm
STEVE HACKETT Cell 151 (Scarce 1982 UK light blue Charisma 'Madhatter' label 3-track 12" vinyl single, also including Time Lapse In Milton Keynes and a live version of Air Conditioned Nightmare. Glossy ilustrate picture sleeve with live photo andUK Tour Dates for '83 listed on the reverse. The sleeve shows minimal shelfwear and the vinyl looks barely played CELL12)
- Steve Hackett - At The Edge Of Light - 180gm - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £19.99, $25.19, €24.19 (New Item) (arrived 10-Sep-2024 12:12)on December 21, 2024 at 6:37 pm
STEVE HACKETT At The Edge Of Light (2019 UK 10-track double LP pressed on 180gram Black Vinyl, with an etching on Side Four, housed in a deluxe gatefold picture sleeve with a double-sided insert. The sleeve is Excellent with minimal edge wear & the vinyl is near 'as new' IOMLP522)
- Steve Hackett - Cured - Japanese - vinyl LP - Promo - £50.00, $63.00, €60.50 (New Item) (arrived 16-Aug-2024 17:15)on December 21, 2024 at 6:37 pm
STEVE HACKETT Cured (1981 Japanese 8-track promo sample vinyl LP with custom black on white Charisma labels, his fifth solo album, housed in a promo stickered picture sleeve complete with biography/lyric insert and 'Polystar' obi-strip. The packaging displays just light age wear, whilst the vinyl has minimal signs of play 25S-38)
- Steve Hackett - Highly Strung - Japanese - vinyl LP - Promo - £55.00, $69.30, €66.55 (New Item) (arrived 16-Aug-2024 17:15)on December 21, 2024 at 6:37 pm
STEVE HACKETT Highly Strung (1983 Japanese 9-track promo sample vinyl LP with custom black on white Charisma labels, housed in a promo stickered picture sleeve with integral lyric insert & obi-strip. The sleeve on this copy has some vintage tape marks on the back otherwise has minimal age wear, and the vinyl looks barely played 25S-161)
- Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings - Japanese - vinyl LP - £30.00, $37.80, €36.30 (New Item) (arrived 16-Aug-2024 17:15)on December 21, 2024 at 6:37 pm
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)
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