
G.H. Harding
HACKETT’S 48 — (By way of PROG) Steve Hackett returns to the world of idea albums for the primary time in 48 years with the discharge of his newest studio album, The Circus And The Nightwhale, which will probably be launched by means of InsideOutMusic on February 16.
The brand new album would be the first Hackett idea album since his 1975 solo debut Voyage Of The Acolyte, which adopted Genesis’ 1974 grand double idea affair The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway.
“The Circus And The Nightwhale is an album with a distinction,” states Hackett. “This time it’s a story, primarily based each actually and metaphorically on my life… It’s each faction and fiction, starting in a gritty world of harsh actuality, spinning off into a vibrant and darkish, bizarre metaphorical universe of surprise turned to terror, with an finally stunning resolve.
“It spans the musical vary from the heaviest to the heavenly, with musical influences, devices and artists from a number of international locations all over the world. I’m vastly happy with this new album which I see as intensely private, but completely common on the identical time… If ever there was a movie for the ear, that is it!”
The Circus And The Nightwhale was recorded on the UK’s Siren Studios in between excursions in 2022 and 2023. The album options Hackett’s touring band in addition to a raft of company together with Amanda Lehmann and Massive Massive Practice’s Nick D’Virgilio, Hugo Degenhardt return as company on the drumstool, Benedict Fenner options on keyboards and Malik Mansurov on tar, with Hackett’s brother John as soon as extra on flute.
The Circus And The Nightwhale will probably be accessible on a number of totally different codecs, together with a restricted version CD and Blu-ray mediabook (together with 5.1 Encompass Sound and 24-bit excessive decision stereo mixes), normal CD jewelcase, gatefold 180g vinyl LP and as digital album. All characteristic a canopy portray by Denise Marsh.
Pre-orders for the album will open quickly.

Keane
SHORT TAKES —Alert! Keane at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor on September 24. E book now! … The Peter Jackson “Now & Then” melee continues. From Slate: https://slate.com/tradition/2023/11/beatles-now-and-then-new-song-video-peter-jackson.html?by way of=rss_socialflow_facebook&fbclid=IwAR03vS0PqYuWjhWSjphms7JAi4wFb0hfvAcq5WqwN59jcqq1-lwTUtfW7hQ
… Mark Bego’s Joe Cocker-bio jumped on the Amazon charts final week at #28. Congrats …

Roger Clark
NY1’s Roger Clark (aka candy knees) was on the anchor desk this weekend. Nice job Sir …
To not date myself, however I watched and simply cherished the Albert Brooks-doc (Defending My Life) directed by Rob Reiner on HBO MAX. I’ve cherished Brooks for so long as I can bear in mind and his dialogue with Reiner is simply sensational. I feel the one factor that shocked me was the revelation that every one of Brook’s routines had been by no means, ever tried out beforehand in a membership. As Chris Rock says within the doc, nowadays everybody tries out their routines in a membership -at least once- earlier than going public. The doc just isn’t for everybody, however sensational …

David Letterman
Don’t miss David Letterman guesting on tonight’s Late Present with Stephen Colbert. Amazingly, his first go to there ever …

Madonna
Roger Friedman posted final evening that the Rolling Stones will be the subsequent guests-in-residence at The Sphere in Las Vegas and that they’re quietly planning their ultimate tour … And we haven’t heard something concerning the Madonna-bio pic since January when Common scrapped plans. Is the deal gone? …RIP Rosalynn Carter; Joss Ackland and Dex Carvey.
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Originally posted 2023-11-20 05:04:04.