The Circus And The Nightwhale (24-bit HD audio), by Steve Hackett

The Circus And The Nightwhale (24-bit HD audio)

by Steve Hackett

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JC Je pense que Steve Hackett tient ici son chef d’œuvre, un album qui résume une immense carrière en nous racontant son histoire tout en se réinventant.
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Favorite track: People Of The Smoke.

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

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24-bit / 48K HD audio. Includes 20-page digital booklet.

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?”

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released February 16, 2024

Line-Up:
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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