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Legendary rock guitarist Steve Hackett will release his new studio album \u2018The Circus And The Nightwhale\u2019 on February 16th 2024, via InsideOut Music. A rite-of-passage concept album with a young character called Travla at the centre of it, \u2018The Circus And The Nightwhale\u2019s\u2019 13 tracks have an autobiographical angle for the musician who says about his 30th solo release: \u201cI love this album. It says the things I\u2019ve been wanting to say for a very long time.\u201d

\u2018The Circus And The Nightwhale\u2019 is Steve\u2019s first new music in over two years. It follows the beautiful acoustic LP \u2018Under A Mediterranean Sky\u2019 from January 2021 \u2013 which rose to No 2 in the UK Classical chart \u2013 and, in September of that year, his metallic masterpiece Surrender Of Silence, which hit the UK Top 40. His 2023 live album, \u2018Foxtrot At Fifty + Hackett Highlights: Live in Brighton\u2019, reached No 2 in the Rock & Metal Chart. Steve\u2019s new LP promises ballads, blues, blistering progressive rock\u2026 and healthy measures of theatre and fantasia.

Recorded between tours in 2022 and 2023 at Siren studio in the UK \u2013 with guest parts beamed in from Sweden, Austria, the US, Azerbaijan and Denmark, the line-up for \u2018The Circus And The Nightwhale\u2019 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\u2019Virgilio 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\u2019s brother John Hackett is present once more on flute.

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