InsideOut will release a new Steve Hackett Boxset on 5th October, spanning his work from Till We Have Faces (1984) until Wild Orchids (2006). Broken Skies, Outspread Wings is the follow-up to Premonitions: The Charisma Years, which was released a few years ago, spanning the period from his first until his sixth solo album.
The new boxset contains six remastered studio albums and two DVDs with bonus content. The set only contains his rock albums, i.e. the classic albums and Blues With A Feeling are not part of it.
Besides the music, the package contains a 60 pages illustrated book and cover artwork by Roger Dean (who was also responsible for Premonitions).
CD1 - Till We Have Faces
Duel
Matilda Smith-Williams Home For The Aged
Let Me Count The Days
A Doll That's Made In Japan
Myopia
What's My Name
The Rio Connection
Taking The Easy Way Out
When You Wish Upon A Star
CD2 - Feedback '86
Cassandra
Prize Fighters
Slot Machine
Stadiums Of The Damned
Don't Fall
Oh How I Love You
Notre Dame Des Fleurs
The Gulf
When The Heart Rules The Mind (2018 version)
CD3 - Guitar Noir
Sierra Quemada
Take These Pearls
There Are Many Sides To The Night
In The Heart Of The City
Dark As The Grave
Lost In Your Eyes
Little America
Like An Arrow
Theatre Of Sleep
Walking Away From Rainbows
Paint Your Picture
Vampyre With A Healthy Appetite
Tristesse
Sierra Quemada (demo)
Take These Pearls (rough mix)
In The Heart Of The City (original version)
Vampyre With A Healthy Appetite (demo)
CD4 - Darktown
Omega Metallicus
Darktown
Man Overboard
The Golden Age Of Steam
Days Of Long Ago
Dreaming With Open Eyes
Twice Around The Sun
Rise Again
Jane Austen's Doors
Darktown Riot
In Memoriam
Flame
Coming Home To The Blues
Fast Flower
CD5 - To Watch The Storms
Strutton Ground
Circus Of Becoming
The Devil Is An Englishman
Frozen Statues
Mechanical Bride
Wind, Sand And Stars
Brand New
This World
Rebecca
The Silk Road
Pollution 8
Fire Island
Marijuana Assassin Of Youth
When You Come Away
The Moon Under Water
Serpentine Song
Reconditioned Nightmare
If You Only Knew
CD6 - Wild Orchids
Transylvanian Express
Waters Of The World
Set Your Compass
Down Street
A Girl Called Linda
Blue Child
To A Close
Ego And ID
Man In The Long Black Coat
Cedars Of Lebanon
Wolfwork
Why
She Moves In Memories
The Fundamentals Of Brainwashing
Howl
A Dark Night In Toytown
Until The Last Butterfly
DVD1 - 5.1 Surround Sound Mixes
Wolfwork
Set Your Compass
Cedars Of Lebanon
Brand New
Serpentine Song
Circus Of Becoming
When The Heart Rules The Mind 2018
Mechanical Bride (Paris 2009, video)
Rise Again (Offenbach 2017, video)
Rainbows (Cologne 2011, videos)
additional video footage provided by Volker Warncke and Michaela Ix.
DVD2 - Somewhere In South America (concert film)
The Floating Seventh
Mechanical Bride
Medley
Serpentine Song
Watcher Of The Skies (extract)
Hairless Heart
Firth Of Fifth (extract)
Riding The Colossus
Pollution (Improvisation)
The Steppes
Gnossienne No.10
Walking Away From Rainbows
Sierra Quemada
The Wall Of Knives (Improvisation)
Vampyre With A Healthy Appetite
A Tower Struck Down
Lucridus (Improvisation)
Darktown
Camino Royale
Band Intros
In Memoriam
Horizons
Los Endos
Somewhere In Italy - Backstage Feature and Interviews from the 2000 Italian Tour.
Broken Skies, Outspread Wings comes out October 5 and is available for preorder at amazon-uk, amazon.fr, amazon.it and the Steve Hackett Webstore.
A detailed review will follow.
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