Metamorpheus
2005 studio album by Steve Hackett
Metamorpheus | ||||
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Studio album by Steve Hackett | ||||
Released | 28 March 2005 | |||
Recorded | 2004 | |||
Genre | Contemporary classical | |||
Label | Camino Records (UK) | |||
Producer | Steve Hackett | |||
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Metamorpheus is Steve Hackett's 17th studio album. This classical album is the successor to A Midsummer Nights Dream. Metamorpheus is an expression on Orpheus and his passage through the Underworld.
The cover of the album was created by Kim Poor, the picture on the sleeves of the previous album To Watch The Storms also features the song "Rebecca".
This album makes use of themes first used by Hackett in short pieces (only released as free MP3 downloads) for the soundtrack of the 2001 Showtime documentary Outwitting Hitler.
Track listing
- "The Pool of Memory and the Pool of Forgetfulness" – 2:15
- "To Earth Like Rain" – 1:33
- "Song to Nature" – 3:02
- "One Real Flower" – 3:12
- "The Dancing Ground" – 3:02
- "That Vast Life" – 12:27
- "Eurydice Taken" – 1:48
- "Charon's Call" – 3:15
- "Cerberus at Peace" – 2:06
- "Under the World – Orpheus Looks Back" – 5:16
- "The Broken Lyre" – 3:17
- "Severance" – 3:05
- "Elegy" – 3:18
- "Return to the Realm of Eternal Renewal" – 2:56
- "Lyra" – 6:36
Personnel
- Steve Hackett – guitars
- John Hackett – flute, piccolo, orchestral arrangements
- Dick Driver – double bass
- Lucy Wilkins – violin
- Richard Stewart – cello
- Sara Wilson – cello
- Richard Kennedy – French horn
- Colin Clague – trumpet
Production
- Benedict Tobias Fenner – engineer
- Roger King – engineer, mastering, mixing, orchestral arrangements
- Jerry Peal – engineer, contribution
- Harry Pearce – design
- Kim Poor – cover painting
References
- ^ "allmusic ((( Metamorpheus > Overview )))". www.allmusic.com. Retrieved 28 December 2009.
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