Metamorpheus

Metamorpheus is Steve Hackett's classical album. This is the successor to A Midsummer Nights Dream. Metamorpheus is an expression on Orpheus and his passage through the Underworld. The use of the nylon guitar and the Underground Orchestra naturally gives a link between the small and big moments of this album.

The cover of the album was created by Kim Poor, the picture on the sleeves of the previous album To Watch The Storms also features 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

1. "The Pool of Memory and the Pool of Forgetfulness" – 2:15
2. "To Earth Like Rain" – 1:33
3. "Song to Nature" – 3:02
4. "One Real Flower" – 3:12
5. "The Dancing Ground" – 3:02
6. "That Vast Life" – 12:27
7. "Eurydice Taken" – 1:48
8. "Charon's Call" – 3:15
9. "Cerberus at Peace" – 2:06
10. "Under the World - Orpheus Looks Back" – 5:16
11. "The Broken Lyre" – 3:17
12. "Severance" – 3:05
13. "Elegy" – 3:18
14. "Return to the Realm of Eternal Renewal" – 2:56
15. "Lyra" – 6:36

Facts

• This is the first album where limited copies of the Electronic Press Kit for the album was released for purchase on the Camino Records website.

Personnel

• Steve Hackett - guitars
• John Hackett – flute, piccolo, guitar, orchestral arrangements
• Colin Clague – trumpet
• Dick Driver – double bass
• Richard Kennedy – french horn
• Richard Stewart – cello
• Lucy Wilkins – violin
• Sara Wilson – cello

Other personnel

• Benedict Tobias Fenner – engineer
• Roger King – engineer, mastering, mixing, orchestral arrangements
• Jerry Peal – engineer, contribution
• Harry Pearce – design
• Kim Poor – cover painting

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