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Released
  
28 March 2005

Metamorpheus (2005)
  
Wild Orchids (2006)

Release date
  
28 March 2005

Label
  
Camino Records

Recorded
  
2004

Artist
  
Steve Hackett

Producer
  
Steve Hackett

Genre
  
Classical music

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Similar
  
Steve Hackett albums, Other albums

Steve hackett 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 use of the nylon guitar and the Underground Orchestra naturally gives a link between the small and big moments of this album.

Contents

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

  1. "The Pool of Memory and the Pool of Forgetfulness" – 2:15
  2. "To Earth Like Rain" – 1:33
  3. "Song to Nature" – 3:02
  4. "One Real Flower" – 3:12
  5. "The Dancing Ground" – 3:02
  6. "That Vast Life" – 12:27
  7. "Eurydice Taken" – 1:48
  8. "Charon's Call" – 3:15
  9. "Cerberus at Peace" – 2:06
  10. "Under the World – Orpheus Looks Back" – 5:16
  11. "The Broken Lyre" – 3:17
  12. "Severance" – 3:05
  13. "Elegy" – 3:18
  14. "Return to the Realm of Eternal Renewal" – 2:56
  15. "Lyra" – 6:36

Facts

  • This is the first album where limited copies of the Electronic Press Kit for the album was released for purchase on the Camino Records website.

    • Personnel

  • Steve Hackett – guitars
  • John Hackett – flute, piccolo, guitar, orchestral arrangements
  • Colin Clague – trumpet
  • Dick Driver – double bass
  • Richard Kennedy – french horn
  • Richard Stewart – cello
  • Lucy Wilkins – violin
  • Sara Wilson – cello

    • Production

  • Benedict Tobias Fenner – engineer
  • Roger King – engineer, mastering, mixing, orchestral arrangements
  • Jerry Peal – engineer, contribution
  • Harry Pearce – design
  • Kim Poor – cover painting

    • Songs

    1The Pool of Memory and the Pool of Forgetfulness2:15
    2To Earth Like Rain1:32
    3Song to Nature3:02

    References

    Metamorpheus Wikipedia
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