Pictures Inspired By Steve Hackett’s ‘The Night Siren’ (2017)

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Over much of last year this beautiful album of music inspired me and kept me sane. It was originally made at Christmas 2017 with a bunch of other stuff, but due to Uni and other commitments never got around to posting it.

Steve Hackett was once the guitarist with Genesis – his departure from the band in 1976 after the Spot The Pigeon EP marked the end of their days as a prog rock band, mainly due to the shitty way he was treated by Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford after the success of his solo album ‘Voyage Of The Acolyte’ (made up of tracks Genesis had rejected).

After further success with ‘Please Don’t Touch’, ‘Spectral Mornings’ and ‘Defector’, a move away from prog tinged with South American and Japanese influences to a more pop and AOR style on ‘Cured’, ‘Highly Strung’ and ‘Till We Have Faces’ alienated fans and interest in his work declined. Even after Hackett returned to his original style, most felt it to be poor imitations of his previous work with nothing new to add.

However, after several successful tours playing old Genesis music with a carefully selected team of musicians and singers who could do justice to the work (his previous ‘Genesis Revisited’ tours were poorly received as cynical money making ventures), Hackett returned to form with ‘Wolflight’ and with the more recent ‘The Night Siren’ (mostly recorded straight onto his home computer next to his kitchen) – the latter regarded as the highlight of his career, and his biggest hit since the early 1980s. It is a mixture of Scandinavian, Celtic, Peruvian, Middle Eastern, African and Indian music, and unlike most ‘World Music’ albums it runs smoothly together.

Steve Hackett has put the entire album with accompanying videos on You Tube so you can hear for yourself. If you like it, go and buy it.