''Metamorpheus'' is
Steve Hackett
Stephen Richard Hackett (born 12 February 1950) is an English guitarist who gained prominence as the lead guitarist of the progressive rock band Genesis (band), Genesis from 1971 to 1977. Hackett contributed to six Genesis studio albums, three l ...
'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 painted by
Kim Poor. A section of the same painting was used in the booklet of the previous album ''To Watch The Storms'' as an illustration for 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
The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...
,
piccolo
The piccolo ( ; ) is a smaller version of the western concert flute and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments. Sometimes referred to as a "baby flute" or piccolo flute, the modern piccolo has the same type of fingerings as the ...
, orchestral arrangements
* Dick Driver – double bass
*
Lucy Wilkins – violin
* Richard Stewart – cello
* Sara Wilson – cello
* Richard Kennedy –
French horn
The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most o ...
* 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
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2005 albums
Steve Hackett albums
Works about Orpheus