Reviews of Steve Hackett CDs
Another live album by Djabe & Steve Hackett was released in spring 2024. Thomas Jesse shares his impression.
The new Steve Hackett solo album, The Circus And The Nightwhale, is his first real concept album. Christoph Laakmann shares his impressions.
April 2023 will see the release of another live album of the collaboration between Hungarian band Djabe and Steve Hackett.
Barely nine months after his acoustic album Under A Mediterranean Sky Steve Hackett presents his new rock album, Surrender Of Silence.
The journey of collaboration between Djabe and Steve Hackett also continues. Now a new live album has been released: The Journey Continues.
In 2021, Steve Hackett surprised us with another acoustic album. Andreas Lauer shares his thoughts for us.
The Magic Stag is the 2020 studio album by Hungarian jazz band Djabe. Steve Hackett (inlcuding his wife and Rob Townsend) is once more part of this project. Zoltan Kelemen has reviewed the album for you.
The Hungarian jazz band Djabe and Steve Hackett continue to work together. After Life Is A Journey (2017) the band and Steve have now released their new studio album Back To Sardinia.
Steve Hackett will release the follow-up to The Night Siren early 2019 via InsideOutMusic. The album is called At The Edge Of Light. We have all the info for you.
Broken Skies, Outspread Wings compiles Steve Hackett's work from 1984-2018 on 6CDs and 2DVDs. We have the details.
After several collaborations on stage, Steve Hackett joined Hungarian band Djabe for the recording of a full studio album on the island Sardinia. Zoltán Kelemen shares his thoughts.
Just two years after his last studio album Wolflight, Steve Hackett presents a new studio album. He describes this one as a wake up call - Christoph Laakmann took a closer look.
In late 2015, Steve Hackett releases a boxset which include his first six albums, some of them remixed in 5.1 Surround Sound by Steven Wilson. There are also some raritites and live shows included. We have all the info.
After two years of touring with his Genesis Revisited / Extended show, Steve Hackett has released a new studio rock album, Wolflight, in early 2015. Christian Gerhardts shares his thoughts.
Steve Hackett releases a follow-up to his 1996/1997 Genesis Revisited album. Again, he invited various musicians from different genres to deliver contributions. Find all information here.
Finally, the long-announced album project SQUACKETT is out - a joint effort by the musicians Steve Hackett and Chris Squire (Yes). Christian Gerhardts shares his thoughts.
September 2011 saw the release of Steve Hackett's most recent rock album. Steffen Gerlach has listened to it and also gives you an overview of the rich bonus material of the 2CD special edition.
Steve Hackett has released a new album three years after his last rock album Wild Orchids. It is called Out Of The Tunnel's Mouth and Steffen Gerlach has listened to it for you.
Steve Hackett indulges in his love for classical music again. On February 19 he released his Tribute to his guitar idols, dispensing with every instrument that is not a nylon guitar.
Virgin / EMI Records have finally got around to releasing Steve Hackett's early albums according to his ideas - to the delight of the musician and his fans alike, for the record company respected Hackett's wishes about the sound as well as extras and the package.
He is always looking for “unbounded places where culture meet and influence each other”, and it seems Steve Hackett has found some more of them. He proudly lets us admire the collection of Wild Orchids he has collected since his last band album...
After the artistic and commercial success of Steve Hackett's version of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream as a guitar concert in 1997 another project like that was to be expected. And indeed it was announced a couple of years ago and published eight years after its predecessor.
There is many a prejudice against (ex-)stars and musician beyond their 50th birthday: They have become lazy, uncreative, their own caricature and so forth. Frequently these claims are true...
After the success the GTR album enjoyed in the mid-80s Steve Hackett planned to do another solo album that was to be called Feedback. It was never released, though parts of it found their way to the fans. Now Steve has completed and released it.
In 2000, Steve and John Hackett released an album with music from Erik Satie, a french composer from the early 20th Century. Bernd Vormwald wrote the review back in 2000.
After he had finished reminiscing about his time in Genesis Steve Hackett released a real solo album again. Darktown is, the title gives it away, rather gloomy...
In 1997 Steve Hackett released his take on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream on EMI Classic. Bernd Vormwald is happy to introduce you to the work and its background.
After his surprise album Genesis Revisited Steve Hackett played four shows in Japan with his band. These gigs were preserved as the live double album The Tokyo Tapes.
An unusual Steve Hackett album was released in 1996. Steve recorded new versions of a number of Genesis classics, added an orchestra, and published Genesis Revisited at first only in Japan, but later also in Europe. The album also features an impressive list of guest musicians.
Steve Hackett's foray into the blues provides us with a new studio album aptly called Blues With A Feeling.
After a time of little output Steve Hackett achieved a sort of comeback in 1993 when he released a new rock album called Guitar Noir.
In 1986, Steve Hackett and Steve Howe (Yes) formed a supergroup, called GTR. They enjoyed some success with their only (self-titled) studio album. Harald Köhncke reviews the remastered 2CD edition from 2015.
After a series of rock albums, Steve Hackett released his first acoustic album in 1983. For the 40th anniversary, Thomas Jesse took a closer look at the album.
After a little break and some changes in his band, Steve returned with his fifth album in 1981: Cured. Thomas Jesse looks back.
Steve Hackett's 1984 solo album Till We Have Faces is not ranked among his best, also not a fan's favorite. Reason enough for Thomas Jesse to take a closer look at this album.
In 1983, Steve Hackett released his freshly recorded studio album Highly Strung. Many fans were rather critical of the new rock sound, but musically the album is in no way inferior to its predecessors. Ole Uhtenwoldt took a closer look.
Steve Hackett and his touring band recorded a new studio album in 1980. Thomas Jesse took a closer look at Defector, which was the fourth solo album by Steve Hackett.
In May 2019, Spectral Mornings, the third solo album by Steve Hackett, celebrates its 40th anniversary. Eric Engler takes a closer look from today's perspective.
After he left Genesis Steve Hackett proceeded to release his second solo album Please Don't Touch with an impressive list of guest musicians.
In 1975 Steve Hackett, lead guitarist with Genesis, became the first member of Genesis to release a solo album.