Steve Hackett: 14CD Boxset ‘Premonitions: The Charisma Years’

Universal Music Group has announced a14-Disc-Boxset of Steve Hackettwhich will cover his time with Charisma Records between 1975-83, called Premonitions: The Charisma Years.

Included are the first six Steve Hackett albums, from Voyage of the Acolyte to Highly Strung. Steven Wilson has done new 5.1 mixes of the first four albums.Two of these new mixes (Please Don’t Touch and Spectral Mornings)are mixed into discrete surround sound from the multitracks, but the multitrack tapes for the other two albums (Voyage of the Acolyte and Defector)could not be located. These albums were upmixed from the stereo masters. In addition, there are two CDs with new stereo mixes (Please Don’t Touch and Spectral Mornings). These have been made since new mixes have been created from the multitracks anyway. New stereo mixes for Cured and Highly Strunghave not been made.

This box set will also include various live recordings: The Oxford show in it’s entirety over two CDs, both Reading1981 and Drury Lane 1979, as well as the BBC session from 1983. And there will be a booklet with extensive liner notes and photographs.

A tracklist has also surfaced recently:

Disc 1 [CD] – Voyage Of The Acolyte / Please Don’t Touch (I):

01. Ace Of Wands

02. Hands Of The Priestess – Part One

03. Tower Struck Down

04. Hands Of The Priestess – Part Two

05. The Hermit

06. Star Of Sirius

07. Lovers

08. Shadow Of The Heirophant (Extended Version)

09. Narnia

10. Carry On Up The Vicarage

11. Racing In A

12. Kim

13. How Can I?

14. Seven Of Cups* (Bonus Track)

Disc 2 [CD] – Please Don’t Touch (II) / Spectral Mornings / Defector(I):

01. Hoping Love Will Last

02. Land Of A Thousand Autumns

03. Please Don’t Touch

04. Voice Of Necam

05. Icarus Ascending

06. Every Day

07. Virgin And The Gypsy

08. Red Flower Of Tachai Blooms Everywhere

09. Clocks – Angel Of Mons

10. Ballad Of The Decomposing Man

11. Lost Time In Cordoba

12. Tigermoth

13. Spectral Mornings

14. Steppes

15. Time To Get Out

16. Slogans

17. Leaving

18. Two Vamps As Guests

Disc 3 [CD] – Defector (II) / Cured:

01. Jacuzzi

02. Hammer In The Sand

03. Toast

04. Show

05. Sentimental Institution

06. Hercules Unchained (Bonus Track)

07. Hope I Don’t Wake

08. Picture Postcard

09. Can’t Let Go

10. Air Conditioned Nightmare

11. Funny Feeling

12. Cradle Of Swans

13. Overnight Sleeper

14. Turn Back Time

15. Tales Of The Riverbank (Bonus Track)

16. Second Chance (Bonus Track)

Disc 4 [CD] – Highly Strung:

01. Camino Royale

02. Cell 151

03. Always Somewhere Else

04. Walk Through Walls

05. Give It Away

06. Weightless

07. Group Therapy

08. India Rubber Man

09. Hackett To Pieces

10. Guitar Boogie (Bonus Track)

11. Time Lapse At Milton Keynes (Bonus Track)

12. Walking Through Walls (12″ Single Version) (Bonus Track)

13. Cell 151 (BBC Session 04/1983)* (Bonus Track)

14. Walking Through Walls (BBC Session 04/1983)* (Bonus Track)

15. Hackett To Pieces (BBC Session 04/1983)* (Bonus Track)

16. Please Don’t Touch (BBC Session 04/1983)* (Bonus Track)

Disc 5 [CD] – Live In Oxford* (New Theatre, 01/07/1979) (I):

01. Please Don’t Touch

02. Tigermoth

03. Every Day

04. Narnia

05. Red Flower Of Tachai Blooms Everywhere

06. Ace Of Wands

07. Carry On Up The Vicarage

08. Acoustic Medley: Etude In A Minor / Blood On The Rooftops / Horizons / Kim

Disc 6 [CD] – Live In Oxford* (New Theatre, 01/07/1979) (II):

01. Optigan / Tower Struck Down

02. Spectral Mornings

03. Star Of Sirius

04. Shadow Of The Heirophant

05. Clocks

06. I Know What I Like

07. Racing In A

Disc 7 [CD] – Live In London (Theatre Royal Dury Lane, 11/11/1979):

01. Land Of Thousand Autumns/Please Don’t Touch

02. Tigermoth*

03. Every Day*

04. Ace Of Wands

05. Sentimental Institution

06. Red Flower Of Tachai Blooms Everywhere*

07. Spectral Mornings*

08. Clocks*

09. Acoustic Medley*: Etude In A Minor / Blood On The Rooftops / Horizons / Kim

Disc 8 [CD] – Live At The Reading Festival (28/08/1981):

01. Air Conditioned Nightmare

02. Every Day*

03. Ace Of Wands*

04. Funny Feeling*

05. Steppes

06. Over Night Sleeper*

07. Slogans

08. Tower Struck Down*

09. Spectral Mornings*

10. Show*

11. Clocks

Disc 9 [CD] – Please Don’t Touch (New Stereo Mix by Steven Wilson)*

01. Narnia

02. Carry On Up The Vicarage

03. Racing In A

04. Kim

05. How Can I?

06. Hoping Love Will Last

07. Land Of A Thousand Autumns

08. Please Don’t Touch

09. Voice Of Necam

10. Icarus Ascending

Disc 10 [CD] – Spectral Mornings(New Stereo Mix by Steven Wilson)*

01. Every Day

02. The Virgin And The Gypsy

03. Red Flower Of Tachai Blooms Everywhere

04. Clocks – Angel Of Mons

05. Ballad Of The Decomposing Man

06. Lost Time In Cordoba

07. Tigermoth

08. Spectral Mornings

Disc 11 [DVD] – Please Don’t Touch (New 5.1 Surround Sound Mix by Steven Wilson)*

01. Narnia

02. Carry On Up The Vicarage

03. Racing In A

04. Kim

05. How Can I?

06. Hoping Love Will Last

07. Land Of A Thousand Autumns

08. Please Don’t Touch

09. Voice Of Necam

10. Icarus Ascending

11. How Can I? [1977 Charisma Promotional Film] (Bonus Video Track)

Disc 12 [DVD] – Spectral Mornings (New 5.1 Surround Sound Mix by Steven Wilson)*

01. Every Day

02. Virgin And The Gypsy

03. Red Flower Of Tachai Blooms Everywhere

04. Clocks – Angel Of Mons

05. Ballad Of The Decomposing Man

06. Lost Time In Cordoba

07. Tigermoth

08. Spectral Mornings

09. Clocks [1979 Charisma Promotional Film] (Bonus Video Track)

Disc 13 [DVD] – Voyage Of The Acolyte (New 5.1 Mix by Steven Wilson)*

01. Ace Of Wands

02. Hands Of The Priestess – Part One

03. Tower Struck Down

04. Hands Of The Priestess – Part Two

05. Hermit

06. Star Of Sirius

07. Lovers

08. Shadow Of The Hierophant (Extended Version)

Disc 14 [DVD] – Defector (New 5.1 Mix by Steven Wilson)*

01. Steppes

02. Time To Get Out

03. Slogans

04. Leaving

05. Two Vamps As Guests

06. Jacuzzi

07. Hammer In The Sand

08. Toast

09. Show

10. Sentimental Institution

*previously unreleased

The boxset can be preordered at amazon-uk.