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Till We Have Faces (Steve Hackett album)

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Released
  
August 1984

Length
  
41:02

Artist
  
Steve Hackett

Producer
  
Steve Hackett

Recorded
  
1983–84

Till We Have Faces (1984)
  
Momentum (1988)

Release date
  
August 1984

Label
  
InsideOut Records

Till We Have Faces (Steve Hackett album) httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaenaa5Til

Genres
  
Progressive rock, Rock music, World music

Similar
  
Steve Hackett albums, Progressive rock albums

Till We Have Faces is the eighth solo album by guitarist Steve Hackett. The album is rock, with elements of world music. The majority of the album was recorded in Brazil, while the final mixing was done in London. The name of the album comes from a novel by C.S.Lewis, whose work is a long-time influence on Hackett.

Contents

As with most of Steve Hackett's records, the sleeve painting was created by his wife at the time, Kim Poor, the Brazilian artist, under the title Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats, after an instrumental piece by Hackett's former group Genesis, on the album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.

The album yielded a single which was split into two-halves, "A Doll That's Made in Japan", the 12" B-side, "Just the Bones" was never reissued in any form.

Track listing (original LP/CD version)

  1. "Duel" (Steve Hackett) – 4:50
  2. "Matilda Smith-Williams Home for the Aged" (Hackett, Nick Magnus) – 8:04
  3. "Let Me Count the Ways" (Hackett) – 6:06
  4. "A Doll That's Made in Japan" (Hackett) – 3:57
  5. "Myopia" (Hackett, Magnus) – 2:56
  6. "What's My Name" (Hackett, Magnus) – 7:05
  7. "The Rio Connection" (Hackett) – 3:24
  8. "Taking the Easy Way Out" (Hackett) – 3:49
  9. "When You Wish upon a Star" (Ned Washington, Leigh Harline) – 0:51

Track listing (1994 CD reissue)

  1. "What's My Name" – 7:06
  2. "The Rio Connection" – 3:21
  3. "Matilda Smith-Williams Home for the Aged" (modified version) – 8:07
  4. "Let Me Count the Ways" – 6:06
  5. "A Doll That's Made in Japan" – 3:57
  6. "Duel" – 4:48
  7. "Myopia" – 2:56
  8. "Taking the Easy Way Out" – 3:50
  9. "The Gulf" – 6:33
  10. "Stadiums of the Damned" – 4:37
  11. "When You Wish Upon a Star" – 0:48

Note: Bonus tracks "The Gulf" and "Stadiums of the Damned" were from the (then) unreleased Feedback 86. The version of "The Gulf" heard here is missing a brief intro, is faded out early, and has added backing vocals.

Personnel

  • Steve Hackett – guitars, guitar synth, koto, rainstick, Etruscan guitar, marimba, percussion, harmonica, vocals
  • Nick Magnus – keyboards, percussion, drum programming
  • Rui Mota – drums
  • Sérgio Lima – drums
  • Ian Mosley – drums, percussion
  • Waldemar Falcão – flute, percussion
  • Fernando Moura – Rhodes piano
  • Ronaldo Diamante – bass
  • Clive Stevens – wind synthesizer
  • Kim Poor – Japanese voice on "Doll"
  • The Brazilian Percussionists – Sidinho Moreira, Junior Homrich, Jaburu, Peninha, Zizinho, Baca

    • Songs

    1Duel4:50
    2Matilda Smith-Williams Home for the Aged8:06
    3Let Me Count the Ways6:06

    References

    Till We Have Faces (Steve Hackett album) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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