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Metamorpheus Studio album by Steve Hackett Released 2005 Recorded 2004 Genre Classical music Label Camino Records (UK) Producer Steve Hackett Steve Hackett chronology To Watch The Storms
(2003)Metamorpheus
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(2006)Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic [1] Metamorpheus is Steve Hackett's classical album. This is the successor to A Midsummer Nights Dream. Metamorpheus is an expression on Orpheus and his passage through the Underworld. The use of the nylon guitar and the Underground Orchestra naturally gives a link between the small and big moments of this album.
The cover to the album is done by Kim Poor. The picture is also on the sleeves of the previous album To Watch The Storms on 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.
Contents
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
Facts
- This is the first album where limited copies of the Electronic Press Kit for the album was released for purchase on the Camino Records website.
Personnel
- Steve Hackett - guitars
- John Hackett – flute, piccolo, guitar, orchestral arrangements
- Colin Clague – trumpet
- Dick Driver – double bass
- Richard Kennedy – french horn
- Richard Stewart – cello
- Lucy Wilkins – violin
- Sara Wilson – cello
Other personnel
- 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. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r735116. Retrieved 2009-12-28.
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