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Steve Hackett - The Circus and the Nightwhale (Vinyl) (2024) [24bit/192kHz]

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Steve Hackett - The Circus and the Nightwhale (Vinyl) (2024) [24bit/192kHz]

Steve Hackett - The Circus and the Nightwhale (2024)
Vinyl Rip | FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Artwork | Time - 44:50 minutes | 1,91 GB
Progressive Rock, Art Rock | Label: Inside Out Records

Legendary rock guitarist Steve Hackett will release his new studio album “The Circus And The Nightwhale” on 16th February 2024 via InsideOut Music. A rite-of-passage concept album with a young character called Travla at the centre of it, “The Circus And The Nightwhale”s 13 tracks have an autobiographical angle for the musician who says about his 30th solo release: “I love this album. It says the things I’ve been wanting to say for a very long time.”

Recorded between tours in 2022 and 2023 at Siren studio in the UK – with guest parts beamed in from Sweden, Austria, the US, Azerbaijan and Denmark, the line-up for “The Circus And The Nightwhale” includes some familiar faces alongside Steve on electric and acoustic guitars, 12-string, mandolin, harmonica, percussion, bass and vocals. Roger King (keyboards, programming and orchestral arrangements), Rob Townsend (sax), Jonas Reingold (bass), Nad Sylvan (vocals), Craig Blundell (drums) and Amanda Lehmann on vocals. Nick D’Virgilio and Hugo Degenhardt return as guests on the drumstool, engineer extraordinaire Benedict Fenner appears on keyboards and Malik Mansurov is back with the tar. Finally, Steve’s brother John Hackett is present once more on flute.

Summing up “The Circus And The Nightwhale”, Steve says: “It’s a lovely journey that starts dirty, scratchy and smoky and becomes heavenly and divine. How can you resist it?”

Line-Up:
Steve Hackett – electric & acoustic guitars, 12 string, mandolin, harmonica, percussion, bass, vocals (1-13)
Craig Blundell – drums (3,5,6,7,12)
Hugo Degenhardt – drums (9)
Benedict Fenner – keyboards (7,9)
John Hackett – flute (5)
Roger King – keyboards, programming & orchestral arrangements (1-13)
Amanda Lehmann – vocals (1,5,7,8,12)
Malik Mansurov – tar (8)
Jonas Reingold – bass (1,3,6,12)
Nad Sylvan – vocals (3)
Rob Townsend – tenor sax, whistle (3,8)
Nick D’Virgilio – drums (1)

Tracklist:
1. People of the Smoke (4:51)
2. These Passing Clouds (1:34)
3. Taking You Down (4:17)
4. Found and Lost (1:50)
5. Enter the Ring (3:52)
6. Get Me Out (4:15)
7. Ghost Moon and Living Love (6:43)
8. Circo Inferno (2:30)
9. Breakout (1:37)
10. All at Sea (1:46)
11. Into the Nightwhale (4:06)
12. Wherever You Are (4:18)
13. White Dove (3:13)

foobar2000 1.4.1 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2024-03-31 16:00:14

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Analyzed: Steve Hackett / The Circus And The Nightwhale
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR15 -1.22 dB -19.68 dB 4:52 ?-A1 People Of The Smoke
DR10 -9.10 dB -21.17 dB 1:34 ?-A2 These Passing Clouds
DR17 -0.50 dB -19.47 dB 4:15 ?-A3 Taking You Down
DR13 -7.03 dB -22.46 dB 1:50 ?-A4 Found And Lost
DR16 -1.49 dB -20.37 dB 3:53 ?-A5 Enter The Ring
DR16 -0.71 dB -19.09 dB 4:14 ?-A6 Get Me Out
DR16 -0.50 dB -19.19 dB 6:43 ?-B1 Ghost Moon And Living Love
DR12 -1.84 dB -16.51 dB 2:30 ?-B2 Circo Inferno
DR12 -2.00 dB -16.81 dB 1:38 ?-B3 Breakout
DR13 -3.47 dB -23.41 dB 1:46 ?-B4 All At Sea
DR12 -4.54 dB -22.05 dB 4:06 ?-B5 Into The Nightwhale
DR13 -1.34 dB -16.51 dB 4:16 ?-B6 Wherever You Are
DR11 -13.13 dB -26.41 dB 3:13 ?-B7 White Dove
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Number of tracks: 13
Official DR value: DR13

Samplerate: 192000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 5412 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Ripping Info

RCM: Okki Nokki (L'art du son, Clearaudio's Diamond Cleaner)
Turntable: EAT Forte “S”
Tone arm: EAT C-Note 12“
Cartridge: Sumiko Starling
Phono amp: Audio Research SP15 own tube phono section
ADC/DAC: RME Fireface UC

Monitoring

Pre Amp: Audio Research SP15
Finals: Opera Consonance 9.9 Mono (Tube)
Speakers: Dali Helikon 400
Connections: MIT Terminator, Audioquest Emerald, Audioquest Quartz

Software:

iZotope RX 5 Advanced, Adobe Audition CS 5.5, Twisted Wave 26.7
Very careful de-clicking with iZotope, significant clicks manually removed, never de-noising
DR-Analisys
Wave 32/192(32/384) –-> Flac 24/96 & 24/192: Twisted Wave 26.7
Artwork: Sony Alpha 350, Epson Perfection V750 Pro, Photoshop CS 5.5
Tagging files with xACT 2.52

Neither music nor DMC agents were harmed during the session
All stunts are 100% real

Thanks to the Original customer!