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To Watch The Storms
''To Watch the Storms'' is the 16th studio album by Steve Hackett. It was his first studio album in 4 years since '' Darktown'' in 1999. It was recorded with his then touring band including his brother John and producer and keyboardist Roger King. The album was released in three formats including a standard and special editions. Cover artwork was by Kim Poor. There was also a Japanese edition with an extra track not included on the UK releases and alternate cover art, also by Kim Poor. Track listing All songs written by Steve Hackett except where indicated. Standard Edition (CAMCD31) # "Strutton Ground" # "Circus of Becoming" # "The Devil Is an Englishman" (Thomas Dolby) # "Frozen Statues" (Steve Hackett, Roger King) # "Mechanical Bride" # "Wind, Sand and Stars" # "Brand New" (Steve Hackett, Roger King) # "This World" (Steve Hackett, Kim Poor) # "Rebecca" # "The Silk Road" (Steve Hackett, Roger King) # "Come Away" # "The Moon Under Water" # "Serpentine Song" Special Edition (CA ...
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Steve Hackett
Stephen Richard Hackett (born 12 February 1950) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and record producer who gained prominence as the lead guitarist of the progressive rock band Genesis from 1971 to 1977. Hackett contributed to six Genesis studio albums, three live albums, seven singles and one EP before he left to pursue a solo career. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010. Hackett released his first solo album, ''Voyage of the Acolyte'', while still a member of Genesis in 1975. After a series of further solo albums beginning in 1978, Hackett co-founded the supergroup GTR with Steve Howe in 1986. The group released the self-titled album '' GTR'', which peaked at No. 11 on the ''Billboard'' 200 in the United States and spawned the Top 20 single "When the Heart Rules the Mind". When Hackett left GTR in 1987, the group disbanded. Hackett then resumed his solo career. He has released albums and toured worldwide on a regular ...
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Progressive Rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Initially termed "progressive pop", the style was an outgrowth of psychedelic bands who abandoned standard pop traditions in favour of instrumentation and compositional techniques more frequently associated with jazz, folk, or classical music. Additional elements contributed to its " progressive" label: lyrics were more poetic, technology was harnessed for new sounds, music approached the condition of "art", and the studio, rather than the stage, became the focus of musical activity, which often involved creating music for listening rather than dancing. Progressive rock is based on fusions of styles, approaches and genres, involving a continuous move between formalism and eclecticism. Due to its historical reception, the scope of progressiv ...
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Art Rock
Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements. Art rock aspires to elevate rock from entertainment to an artistic statement, opting for a more experimental and conceptual outlook on music."Art Rock"
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Camino Records
This article is a discography of albums and singles released by the guitarist-songwriter Steve Hackett. Solo career Camino Records was founded by Hackett with the original goal of re-releasing selections from his solo career, but Hackett eventually released new albums on the label. Rock albums Classical albums Blues albums Collaborative albums Live albums Compilation albums *''The Unauthorised Biography'' (1992) Video albums Singles *"How Can I?" / "Kim" (1978) *"Narnia" (remix) / "Please Don't Touch" (1978) – withdrawn release? *"Every Day" / "Lost Time in Cordoba" (1979) *"Clocks" (alternate version) / "Acoustic Set" (live) (1979) *"Clocks" (alternate version) / "Acoustic Set" (live) / "Tigermoth" (live) 12" single (1979) *"The Show" / "Hercules Unchained" (1980) *"Sentimental Institution" / "The Toast" (1980) *"Hope I Don't Wake" / "Tales from the Riverbank" (1981) *"Picture Postcard" / "Theme from 'Second Chance'" (1982) *"Cell 151" (single edit) / "The Air-Con ...
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InsideOut Music
Inside Out Music is a German independent record label originally based in Kleve, North Rhine-Westphalia, and dedicated to the publication of progressive rock, progressive metal and related styles. In 2009, it formed a partnership with Century Media Records and moved its base of operations to Dortmund, also in North Rhine-Westphalia. In August 2015, Century Media was acquired by Sony Music and became its premier label for progressive music. History The label was founded in 1993 by Thomas Waber and Michael Schmitz and started its publications re-issuing albums of new American prog metal acts like Symphony X and Shadow Gallery for the European market and then signing important prog artists like Steve Hackett. Inside Out signed a worldwide distribution contract with the German music company SPV and branched out with the American division InsideOut US, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2009 SPV had to file for bankruptcy, and Inside Out partnered up with Century Media Records, ...
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Metamorpheus
''Metamorpheus'' is Steve Hackett's 17th studio album. This classical album is the successor to ''A Midsummer Nights Dream''. ''Metamorpheus'' is an expression on Orpheus and his passage through the Underworld. The cover of the album was created by Kim Poor, the picture on the sleeves of the previous album ''To Watch The Storms'' also features the song "Rebecca". This album makes use of themes first used by Hackett in short pieces (only released as free MP3 downloads) for the soundtrack of the 2001 Showtime documentary ''Outwitting Hitler''. Track listing # "The Pool of Memory and the Pool of Forgetfulness" – 2:15 # "To Earth Like Rain" – 1:33 # "Song to Nature" – 3:02 # "One Real Flower" – 3:12 # "The Dancing Ground" – 3:02 # "That Vast Life" – 12:27 # "Eurydice Taken" – 1:48 # "Charon's Call" – 3:15 # "Cerberus at Peace" – 2:06 # "Under the World – Orpheus Looks Back" – 5:16 # "The Broken Lyre" – 3:17 # "Severance" – 3:05 # "Elegy" – 3:18 # "R ...
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Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ...
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Darktown (album)
''Darktown'' is the 14th studio album from British Musician Steve Hackett, released in 1999. It was reissued in 2013 with 3 bonus tracks. On some copies of this reissue, the title was misspelled as "Darktwon" on the sides of the CD case. ''Darktown'' is the last album to feature Julian Colbeck as a keyboardist, on the title track only. Colbeck had played with Hackett for much of the 1990s. ''Darktown'' shows the increasing role that Roger King would play as a part of Hackett's band, as a producer and keyboardist and later as a co-writer. Track listing All songs written by Steve Hackett, except indicated. #"Omega Metallicus" – 3:48 #"Darktown" – 4:59 #"Man Overboard" – 4:17 #"The Golden Age of Steam" – 4:09 #"Days of Long Ago" (Hackett, Diamond) – 3:23 #"Dreaming with Open Eyes" – 6:54 #"Twice Around the Sun" – 7:15 #"Rise Again" – 4:26 #"Jane Austen's Door" – 6:13 #"Darktown Riot" – 3:10 #"In Memoriam" – 7:59 1999 Japanese bonus tracks #"The Well At The ...
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Kim Poor
Elizabeth Kimball de Albuquerque Poor is a Brazilian artist. Biography Born in Brazil on november 23 of 1954, Kim Poor first exhibited at the age of 12. At 17 she left Brazil to study Fine Arts at the Parsons School of Design in New York City with Larry Rivers and at Skidmore College in upstate New York where she developed a new technique in painting with ground glass on steel. In 1982, she enrolled at the Central School of Art and Design in London to pursue her interests in printmaking with Norman Ackroyd R.A. Her style and technique of painting uses powdered glass fused on steel and is known as “Diaphanism”. When writing about Poor's 1997 work "What the Jaguar Saw", art critic Edward Lucie-Smith said; "Jaguars play a major role in the mythology of the Amazonian Indians. The Brazilian artist Kim Poor, working with a demanding technique in which tiny specks of pure pigment are fused onto a metal surface, here gives the beast a godlike presence." With further reference to th ...
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Thomas Dolby
Thomas Morgan Robertson (born 14 October 1958), known by the stage name Thomas Dolby, is an English musician, producer, composer, entrepreneur and teacher. Dolby came to prominence in the 1980s, releasing hit singles including "She Blinded Me with Science" (1982) and " Hyperactive!" (1984). He has also worked as a producer and as a session musician. In the 1990s, Dolby founded Beatnik, a Silicon Valley software company whose technology was used to play internet audio and later ringtones, most notably on Nokia phones. He was also the music director for the TED Conference. On the faculty at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University since 2014, Dolby leads Peabody's Music for New Media program, which enrolled its first students in the fall of 2018. Early life Dolby was born Thomas Morgan Robertson in London, England, to (Theodosia) Cecil, ''née'' Spring Rice (1921–1984) and Martin Robertson (1911–2004), an internationally distinguished professor of classical Gre ...
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Obi (publishing)
An is a strip of paper looped around a book or other product. This extends the term ''obi'' used for Japanese clothing; it is written with the same ''kanji''. It is also referred to as a , or more narrowly as . Obi strips are most commonly found on products in Asian countries, specifically Japan. For books Many books in Japan are supplied with an ''obi'', which is normally added outside any dust jacket. However, a book in a slipcase may have an ''obi'' around the slipcase. In English, the term ''belly-band'' is sometimes used instead. In French, the term ''bandeau'' is more frequently used. Other applications The terms ''obi'' and ''tasuki'' are also used for a strip that is looped over one side (usually on the left) or folded over the top of LP albums released in Japan, and folded over the left side of music CDs, video games, LaserDiscs, or DVD The DVD (common abbreviation for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. ...
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John Hackett (musician)
John Hackett (born 13 March 1955) is a British musician, the younger brother of guitarist Steve Hackett. Although his primary instrument is the flute, he also plays guitar, bass, bass pedals and keyboards. Early career Hackett had both classical and rock music backgrounds. His early career was mostly as part of his brother's band, appearing on many early albums and touring until 1983. By then, he had already made guest contributions to other albums, such as Anthony Phillips's debut solo album '' The Geese and the Ghost''. He has as played with ensembles such as The English Flute Quartet and the Westminster Camerata, and as a founder-member of the relaxation and ambient music group, Symbiosis. He has also maintained a strong output from session work with a variety of artists and projects. Solo work From 2004, John has been regularly releasing solo albums, taking in classical, folk, and rock stylings. In 2005, ''Checking Out of London'' was released, a rock album produced with ...
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