Steve Hackett announces weighty new studio album ‘The Night Siren’

Released via InsideOut Music on 24th March 2017, as the title suggests, the record is described as a wake-up call ‘in this era of strife and division’ and deals with weighty issues like the plight of refugees and war.

A celebration of multicultural diversity and unity, alongside Steve’s signature guitar work there are an array of guest musicians from all corners of the globe including singers from Israel and Palestine and instrumentals from the USA and Iraq.

Musically highly eclectic, throughout the record there are also the sounds of the Indian sitar and Middle Eastern tar and oud, the Peruvian charango and the Celtic Uilleann pipes.

Steve comments: “This latest waxing represents a bird’s eye view of the world of a musical migrant ignoring borders and celebrating our common ancestry with a unity of spirit, featuring musicians, singers and instruments from all over the world.

“From territorial frontiers to walled-up gateways, boundaries often hold back the tide.  But while the night siren wails, music breaches all defences. To quote Plato, ‘When the music changes, the walls of the city shake’.”

The track-listing is as follows:

1. Behind the Smoke
2. Martian Sea
3. Fifty Miles from the North Pole
4. El Niño
5. Other Side of the Wall
6. Anything but Love
7. Inca Terra
8. In Another Life
9. In the Skeleton Gallery
10. West to East
11. The Gift

Steve hits the road in April and May 2017 on the 15-date ‘Genesis Revisited With Classic Hackett’ Tour. Tickets to all shows are on sale from Planet Rock Tickets now.

See him at the following dates:

APRIL 2017
Cardiff St. David’s Hall – Fri 28th
Reading Hexagon – Sun 30th

MAY 2017
Birmingham Symphony Hall – Mon 1st
Sheffield City Hall – Wed 3rd
Bristol Colston Hall – Thu 4th
Manchester Bridgewater Hall – Fri 5th
Liverpool Philharmonic – Sun 7th
Portsmouth Guildhall – Mon 8th
Southend Cliffs Pavillion – Wed 10th
Nottingham Royal Concert Hall – Thu 11th
Oxford New Theatre – Sat 13th
Cambridge Corn Exchange – Sun 14th
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall – Tue 16th
Gateshead Sage – Wed 17th
London Palladium – Fri 19th