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.