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Spectral Mornings [Extra tracks] [Original recording remastered]

~ Steve Hackett
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  • Audio CD (19 Sep 2005)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
  • Label: Charisma
  • ASIN: B000AM1THG
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 8,418 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Every Day
2. The Virgin And Gypsy
3. The Sweet Flower Of Tai Chi
4. Clocks
5. The Ballad Of The Decomposing Man
6. Lost Time In Cordoba
7. Tigermoth
8. Spectral Mornings
9. Everyday (Alternate Mix) (Bonus Track)
10. The Virgin And Gypsy (Alternate Mix) (Bonus Track)
11. Tigermoth (Alternate Mix) (Bonus Track)
12. The Ballad Of The Decomposing Man (Alternate Mix) (Bonus Track)
13. Clocks (Single Version) (Bonus Track)
14. Live Acoustic Section (Bonus Track)
15. Tigermoth (Live Version) (Bonus Track)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Hackett returns to English pastoral ..., 24 Dec 2005
By Greville Rob "peter60780" (Malvern, Worcs, UK) - See all my reviews
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Where his previous solo release, ‘Please Don’t Touch’, attempted to bridge American and British music of the period, its 1979 successor marked a return to a musical context closer to the spiritual home of Steve Hackett’s former band, Genesis.

A UK chart hit, ‘Spectral Mornings’ hit all the right buttons for fans, crossing whimsy-laced pastoral symphonic rock with early ‘world’ styling assisted by a diversity of instrumentation, both acoustic and synthesised.

Equally diverse in output, Hackett and a tight, well-drilled band including Dik (Decameron) Cadbury and Nick (Enid) Magnus deliver bags of shade and light from the exciting opener (and live mainstay) ‘Every Day’, the jaunty ditty in ‘Ballad Of the Decomposing Man’, the delicate Spanish guitar instrumental in ‘Lost Time in Cordoba’, the thundering instrumental in ‘Clock – The Angel Of Mons’ replete with drum solo, and – well, you get the gist of it.

Other standouts include the pretty ‘Virgin & The Gypsy’ (Steve got the lyrics down after a few glasses of wine reading ‘The Victorian Book Of Flowers’), and the closing title track, a dramatic slice of soaring melodic prog that takes us – on this generous re-mastered, mid-price package – back to the beginning with alternate takes plus two live tracks.

Even in its moments of bombast, there is a gentle, intelligent charm and spirituality in ‘Spectral Mornings’, a record of its time but its values undiluted by the fact, and with the capacity and range to entertain just as ably today.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Sceptical adornings..., 11 Feb 2008
By S. C. Trump "stevect" (Upminster, Essex) - See all my reviews
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Most of the reviews already submitted concentrate on the quality of the album and it must be said that it does contain some of Steves best songs, with only a couple of tracks not quite up to the mark.

Instead I wanted to showcase the bonus tracks on offer here as this remastered cd does offer quite a few; in fact it's very generous and brings the playing time to around 71 minutes. However, it's really a question of quantity above quality (and also the track timings listed on the sleeve are quite wrong). Best of the bunch for me is the extended version of the classic track 'Every Day' which extends the instrumental section until it fades more quietly than on the original cut. Next up, the wonderful 'The Virgin and the Gypsy' is also extended but only to repeat the instrumental middle passage over and over again. The alternative mix of 'Tiger Moth' features just the vocal section sung whistfully by Peter Hicks; not sure what the point of that is.'The Ballad of the Decomposing Man' is also an alternative mix but it sounds much the same. The single version of 'Clocks' follows next and chops the frenetic drum section sadly, so is vastly inferior to the standard cut. An excellent live 'Acoustic Set' is next up and this was the b-side of the 'Clocks' single; it features a lovely version of 'Horizons' from the Genesis album 'Foxtrot' with a very long round of applause. The other acoustic pieces are not quite as enthusistically received but do give a flavour of Steves live acoustic technique. A rare live cut of 'Tiger Moth' was featured on the 12" 'Clocks' single and is included here but strangely the music fades out before Peter Hicks' vocals start as it was on the 12" release - shame they could not have restored the full track here.

There is a slight trick in the tail if you pardon the pun, 'Tiger Moth (live)' is the last listed track and it duly fades but the clock keeps ticking (sorry, another pun !) and then a hidden track 16 starts up. What can I say about this piece of nonsense ? Someone with a very bad cough appears to be clearing up after the band and cursing about bands in general being "layabouts". This rambles on for about one and a half minutes and then stops when a door is slammed. Very strange.
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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful album Revisited, 3 Jan 2006
By PugFace "Pug" (Wolverhampton) - See all my reviews
I remember hearing this album in the 6th form on vinyl. It would be put on the music room's hifi with vol set to wonderfully boomy levels. This album needs to be played LOUD. The guitar riffs are some of the best ever as he is a brilliant musician. Good re-master. Better now in CD. The Moog bass sounds wonderfully big.

Still the best album the artist has ever produced. Shame it never really got repeated by him. Like every track. Even the old-timer one about Arthur Royal. Love the line "Egg Chips n Beans" This album sounds very English if ever there was one.

The final track is just mega blast Rock-Pop. The sort of go for it son that you don't really hear nowadays. I.e. Guitar hero, cuz the track is all about playin the guitar wildly.

I would say anybody who likes middle period Genesis (And then were three, etc;) would like this album thoroughly. Now it's on Cd it works better i think.

Stevie what happened to you? Was this all that work you where saving for when you left Genesis?
The album is one of my favourites ever.

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I think this is one of Steve Hackett's greatest albums and I highly Recommend to buy this!

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