{"id":8223,"date":"2018-10-30T06:33:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T06:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=8223"},"modified":"2018-10-30T06:33:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T06:33:59","slug":"steve-hackett-announces-release-of-new-studio-album-at-the-edge-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2018\/10\/30\/steve-hackett-announces-release-of-new-studio-album-at-the-edge-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Hackett announces release of new studio album \u2018At The Edge Of Light\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the tremendous success of 2017\u2019s \u2018The Night Siren\u2019 (charted at #22 in Germany, #28 in the UK), legendary former Genesis guitarist\u00a0Steve Hackett\u00a0announces the release of his new studio album \u2018At The Edge Of Light\u2019 on the 25th January 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The album which features ten songs, sees Steve unite a vast amount of styles ranging from guitar driven rock to epic orchestration, from world music to the reflective and atmospheric all brought together in Steve Hackett\u2019s unique style.<\/p>\n<p>Steve says:\u00a0\u201cIn these dangerous times, deep shadows feel even sharper than usual and we find ourselves standing at the edge of light&#8230; The contrast between dark and light weaves its way throughout the album in many ways, from the sense of good fighting evil through to the interplay of dark and light opposites magically combining in cultures, including the heartbeat of India and primal tribal rhythms. Ultimately, this album embraces the need for all musical forms and cultures to connect and celebrate the wonder of unity in this divided world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At The Edge Of Light is released in a number of formats including a Mediabook CD plus extra DVD with 5.1 surround sound mix &amp; behind the scenes documentary, double vinyl LP + CD, Jewelcase CD and digital album.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Hackett has established himself as one of Rock music\u2019s finest and recognisable guitarists through his time with the legendary Genesis who he joined in 1971 and a solo career following his departure from Genesis in 1977 and is a hugely influential guitarist particularly in the Progressive Rock genre.\u00a0 \u2018At The Edge Of Light\u2019 will be Hackett\u2019s 26th studio album in a solo career that began in 1975 with the release of his debut solo album Voyage Of The Acolyte.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018At The Edge Of Light\u2019 was mainly recorded in Steve&#8217;s own studio but also around the world. \u00a0 The album features international artists, including Durga and Loreley of Pink Floyd vocal fame with drummers Nick D&#8217;Virgilio and Simon Phillips from USA, Sheema on sitar from India, Icelandic drummer\/percussionist Gulli Briem, tar player Malik Mansurov and Swedish bass player Jonas Reingold&#8230; This album also features Paul Stillwell on didgeridoo, Rob Townsend on sax, bass clarinet and duduk, Amanda Lehmann on vocals, John Hackett on flute, drummer Gary O\u2019Toole, Roger King and Ben Fenner on keyboards, Dick Driver on double bass, violinist and viola player Christine Townsend&#8230; All magically honed and engineered by Roger King.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8224\" src=\"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Album-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Album-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skylight.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Album-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/skylight.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Album.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nThe full track-listing is as follows:<br \/>\nFallen Walls and Pedestals<br \/>\nBeasts In Our Time<br \/>\nUnder The Eye of the Sun<br \/>\nUnderground Railroad<br \/>\nThose Golden Wings<br \/>\nShadow and Flame<br \/>\nHungry Years<br \/>\nDescent<br \/>\nConflict<br \/>\nPeace<\/p>\n<p>The album is released shortly before Steve performs as special guest on the Cruise To The Edge in February 2019 and the On The Blue cruise featuring Justin Hayward, also in February.<\/p>\n<p>Hackett recently played a series of Genesis Revisited shows with Orchestra and will perform two UK dates with acoustic sets in early December before touring Europe in April\/May 2019 and has just announced a UK tour in November 2019 with a much anticipated \u2018Selling England By The Pound &amp; Spectral Mornings &amp; Album Highlights\u2019 set. You can find a full list of upcoming tour dates here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.hackettsongs.com\/tour.html<\/p>\n<p>About Steve Hackett<\/p>\n<p>Steve Hackett\u00a0is renowned as an immensely talented and innovative rock musician. He was lead guitarist with\u00a0Genesis\u00a0as part of their classic line up with Gabriel, Collins, Banks and Rutherford, who produced several of the band\u2019s most acclaimed albums including\u00a0Selling England by the Pound\u00a0(a favourite of John Lennon) and\u00a0The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. With Steve&#8217;s extraordinary versatility in both his electric guitar playing and his composing, he involves influences from many genres, including Jazz, World Music, Classical music and Blues.<\/p>\n<div>\nSource:<br \/>\nwww.hackettsongs.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the tremendous success of 2017\u2019s \u2018The Night Siren\u2019 (charted at #22 in Germany, #28&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[189,125,51,188],"class_list":["post-8223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","tag-genesis","tag-prog","tag-progressive-rock","tag-steve-hackett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8226,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8223\/revisions\/8226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}