Label: Inside Out Music (Germany), 0506240
Style: Art Rock, Rock
Country: London, England (12 February 1950)
Time: 73:18, 71:27
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 438, 439 Mb
Genesis
Revisited II is the 22nd studio album by musician Steve Hackett,
released on 22 October 2012 by Inside Out Music label. It is a sequel to
his 1996 album Genesis Revisited and largely consists of reworked
versions of songs originally by Genesis with a variety of guest
vocalists.
"I would like to repaint the Mona Lisa“... No, that is not
Steve Hackett about Genesis Revisited II, it is what Phil Collins said
in 2010 when he had created a work of art with Going Back. 29 Motown
classics were carefully recorded afresh – but the goal was to make them
sound like they did when Motown ruled the charts. Collins had not set
out to do new interpretations, he wanted to revive the era. Earlier that
same year, his former band-mate Peter Gabriel had done exactly the
opposite. In Scratch My Back, he challenged himself by moving as far
away from the originals as possible in his „no drums, no guitars, only
orchestra“ concept. Steve Hackett took the middle ground in 1996 when he
brought out Genesis Revisited. Some things sounded familiar, others had
been done over in a thoroughly idiosyncratic way. And unlike Phil
Collins and Peter Gabriel Hackett dared to look back at that sacred cow,
the early years of Genesis. To Genesis fans that is something very
different from paying respect to a style of music or trying out an
alternative concept. Hackett took some criticism for it. Some said he
had strayed too far from the originals, other fans felt he had castrated
the best parts of the song, e.g. Firth Of Fifth, where he all but
dropped the Banks solo. It was these songs, however, that made Genesis
Revisited controversial and therefore interesting.
More than 15 years
later here he comes with a second part. He tries his hand at many more
songs than on the first volume. He also offers some of his own songs,
but only those that were, in his words, influenced or inspired by
Genesis. For this recording he has brought in an illustrious list of
musicians, and he himself sings very few songs.
Steve Hackett has this to say about the album:
"I
sympathise with Hitchcock's need to re-make an earlier film. The vision
is clearer, techniques improve inwardly and outwardly. For all us
musicians songs of innocence are now inevitably songs of experience. I
love the original Genesis music so much that I want to highlight it even
more. The temptation to infuse those tracks with more detail and
enriched clarity was irresistible.
Musos set the ball rolling by
passing it to one another as a means to carry forward combined ideas.
The songwriters then necessarily move on to the next project, but the
avid listener knows it's really a chariot of fire, a bow of burning gold
or a dark satanic mill... It's emblazoned into the mind with a life of
its own that moves way beyond the dreams of the original perpetrators.
But sometimes dreams need to be re-lived!
On these versions I've
altered the detail within the songs whilst aiming to preserve the
authentic spirit of the originals. Real string instruments are often
used either with or instead of Mellotron, there are several new
introductions, plus many additional effects recorded on Apple Mac Logic
with amp plug-ins instead of going the traditional route. You'll also
find changed guitar and other instrumental solos, as well as additional
vocal parts.
Every time I change a solo I feel I'm in danger of
messing with people's childhoods, but sometimes the muse just has to
have her way with me..."
(genesis-news.com/c-Steve-Hackett-Genesis-Revisited-II-2CD-review-s499.html)
01. The Chamber of 32 Doors (06:00)
02. Horizons (01:40)
03. Supper's Ready (23:34)
04. The Lamia (07:47)
05. Dancing with the Moonlit Knight (08:09)
06. Fly on a Windshield (02:53)
07. Broadway Melody of 1974 (02:23)
08. The Musical Box (10:57)
09. Can-Utility and the Coastliners (05:49)
10. Please Don't Touch (04:03)
01. Blood on the Rooftops (06:56)
02. The Return of the Giant Hogweed (08:45)
03. Entangled (06:35)
04. Eleventh Earl of Mar (07:50)
05. Ripples (08:14)
06. Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers... (02:21)
07. ...In That Quiet Earth (04:46)
08. Afterglow (04:08)
09. A Tower Struck Down (04:45)
10. Camino Royale (06:19)
11. Shadow of the Hierophant (10:44)
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