Steve Hackett: Darktown CD Track Listing
Steve Hackett
Darktown (1998)
One of rock's most uncompromising and complex individuals, the inventor of 'tapping', has moved on. More revealing than ever before and firmly autobiographical, DARKTOWN is as personal a Hackett album as you're likely to see. The guitar work is as alive and inspired as ever and the usual impossibly big and haunting sounds are occasionally twinned with Ian McDonald's searing, angst-ridden sax bellowing from places only glimpsed in a child's nightmare. \nDARKTOWN is like a series of miniature movies or short stories - but don't zoom in on one fragment - you need the whole picture which is detailed to say the least. \n"I didn't want to impress my personality on any of it... just to go at it like a character actor, turning up in different guises to help the plot along." \nHackett hasn't flinched from exploring the limits of the term 'progressive', he drags that much maligned genre screaming and kicking into the 21st century. The album opens with "Omega Metallicus", a remarkable 'beats' driven guitar tour-de-force where everything you hear that isn't bass and drums is wrung from the electric guitar. In the Latin-tinged "Dreaming With Open Eyes" the entire percussion picture springs from Hackett's nylon guitar - slapped, plucked, sampled and looped. The ride through the dark continues - who could fail to be moved by the evident pain of "Jane Austen's Door"? - and when light finally emerges in the shape of tracks such as "Days of Long Ago", with Jim Diamond's soulful vocal, the sense of relief has been well earned. Finally there's a magnificent goodbye with "In Memoriam", a deceptively relaxed and world-weary but ultimately salient observation. \nSteve Hackett has never lacked the nerve and imagination to take risks, try out new techniques and push forward the boundaries regardless of the consequences. He has always gone out on a limb, even courted unpopularity in his pursuit of fresh musical satisfaction. \nThis is a record from someone who has lived and needs to tell you what he's discovered - an exorcism, from the harshest moments to the most cherished memories. \n YEAR: 1998
This rock cd contains 11 tracks and runs 56min 39sec.
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: music songs tracks rock Progressive Rock
- Steve Hackett - Omega Metallicus (03:48)
- Steve Hackett - Darktown (04:59)
- Steve Hackett - Man Overboard (04:17)
- Steve Hackett - The Golden Age Of Steam (04:09)
- Steve Hackett - Days Of Long Ago (03:23)
- Steve Hackett - Dreaming With Open Eyes (06:54)
- Steve Hackett - Twice Around The Sun (07:15)
- Steve Hackett - Rise Again (04:26)
- Steve Hackett - Jane Austen's Door (06:13)
- Steve Hackett - Darktown Riot (03:10)
- Steve Hackett - In Memoriam (07:59)
