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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 - Spectral Mornings - 2nd - UK - vinyl LP - £8.00, $10.00, €9.28 (New Item) (arrived 30-Apr-2024 15:08)on May 9, 2024 at 5:25 am
STEVE HACKETT Spectral Mornings (80s UK issue of the 1979 8-track vinyl LP on the blue Charisma 'Madhatter' label, including the singles Every Day and Clocks. The picture sleeve shows minimal wear and the vinyl displays some cosmetic cloudingwhich has no real impact on play CDS4017)
- Steve Hackett - Please Don't Touch - 1st - UK - vinyl LP - £15.00, $18.75, €17.40 (New Item) (arrived 14-Mar-2024 10:11)on May 9, 2024 at 5:25 am
STEVE HACKETT Please Don't Touch (1978 UK first press 10-track LP on the pink small 'madhatter' label, complete with the illustrated lyric inner, picture sleeve. The sleeve shows a little wear, whilst the vinyl has minor signs of play CDS4012)
- Steve Hackett - Cell 151 - UK - 7" vinyl - £8.00, $10.00, €9.28 (New Item) (arrived 20-Dec-2023 16:28)on May 9, 2024 at 5:25 am
STEVE HACKETT Cell 151 (1983 UK 7" vinyl single, also featuring Time Lapse At Milton Keynes, picture sleeve with 1983 tour dates on the back CELL1)
- Steve Hackett - Sentimental Institution - UK - 7" vinyl - £15.00, $18.75, €17.40 (New Item) (arrived 22-Dec-2023 09:28)on May 9, 2024 at 5:25 am
STEVE HACKETT Sentimental Institution (1980 UK 7" vinyl single, also includes The Toast, picture sleeve CB368)
- Steve Hackett - The Show - UK - 7" vinyl - £8.00, $10.00, €9.28 (New Item) (arrived 22-Dec-2023 09:31)on May 9, 2024 at 5:25 am
STEVE HACKETT The Show (1980 UK 7" single, also featuring Hercules Unchained, picture sleeve. The cover shows just a spot of ring wear & the vinyl does show a few light paper scuffs but looks barely played CB357)
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