Steve Hackett – The Circus and the Nightwhale (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Steve Hackett – The Circus and the Nightwhale (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 44:58 minutes | 519 MB | Genre: Progressive Rock, Art Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © InsideOutMusic

Legendary rock guitarist Steve Hackett will release his new studio album “The Circus And The Nightwhale” on 16th February 2024 via InsideOut Music. A rite-of-passage concept album with a young character called Travla at the centre of it, “The Circus And The Nightwhale”s 13 tracks have an autobiographical angle for the musician who says about his 30th solo release: “I love this album. It says the things I’ve been wanting to say for a very long time.”

Recorded between tours in 2022 and 2023 at Siren studio in the UK – with guest parts beamed in from Sweden, Austria, the US, Azerbaijan and Denmark, the line-up for “The Circus And The Nightwhale” includes some familiar faces alongside Steve on electric and acoustic guitars, 12-string, mandolin, harmonica, percussion, bass and vocals. Roger King (keyboards, programming and orchestral arrangements), Rob Townsend (sax), Jonas Reingold (bass), Nad Sylvan (vocals), Craig Blundell (drums) and Amanda Lehmann on vocals. Nick D’Virgilio and Hugo Degenhardt return as guests on the drumstool, engineer extraordinaire Benedict Fenner appears on keyboards and Malik Mansurov is back with the tar. Finally, Steve’s brother John Hackett is present once more on flute.

Summing up “The Circus And The Nightwhale”, Steve says: “It’s a lovely journey that starts dirty, scratchy and smoky and becomes heavenly and divine. How can you resist it?”

Tracklist:
1-1. Steve Hackett – People of the Smoke (04:50)
1-2. Steve Hackett – These Passing Clouds (01:35)
1-3. Steve Hackett – Taking You Down (04:17)
1-4. Steve Hackett – Found and Lost (01:49)
1-5. Steve Hackett – Enter the Ring (03:53)
1-6. Steve Hackett – Get Me Out (04:15)
1-7. Steve Hackett – Ghost Moon and Living Love (06:43)
1-8. Steve Hackett – Circo Inferno (02:30)
1-9. Steve Hackett – Breakout (01:37)
1-10. Steve Hackett – All at Sea (01:46)
1-11. Steve Hackett – Into the Nightwhale (04:06)
1-12. Steve Hackett – Wherever You Are (04:18)
1-13. Steve Hackett – White Dove (03:14)

Personnel:
Steve Hackett – electric & acoustic guitars, 12 string, mandolin, harmonica, percussion, bass, vocals (1-13)
Craig Blundell – drums (3,5,6,7,12)
Hugo Degenhardt – drums (9)
Benedict Fenner – keyboards (7,9)
John Hackett – flute (5)
Roger King – keyboards, programming & orchestral arrangements (1-13)
Amanda Lehmann – vocals (1,5,7,8,12)
Malik Mansurov – tar (8)
Jonas Reingold – bass (1,3,6,12)
Nad Sylvan – vocals (3)
Rob Townsend – tenor sax, whistle (3,8)
Nick D’Virgilio – drums (1)

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