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Steve & John Hackett: Sketches of Satie

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Label: Camino Records
Released: 2000
Time:
 49:00
52Category: Classical
Producer(s): Steve Hackett
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.hackettsongs.com
Appears with: Genesis, GTR, Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins, Chris Squire, Steve Howe
Purchase date: 2000.05.24
Price in €: 15,99





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[1] Gnossienne no.3
[2] Gnossienne no.2
[3] Gnossienne no.1
[4] Gymnopedie no.3
[5] Gymnopedie no.2
[6] Gymnopedie no.1
[7] Pieces Froides No 1 Airs a faire fuir I
[8] Pieces Froides No 1 Airs a faire fuir II
[9] Pieces Froides No 2 Danse de travers II
[10] Avant Dernieres Pensees Idylle a Debussy
[11] vant Dernieres Pensees Aubade a Paul Dukas
[12] Avant Dernieres Pensees Meditation a Albert Roussel
[13] Gnossienne no.4
[14] Gnossienne no.5
[15] Gnossienne no.6
[16] Nocturnes no.1
[17] Nocturnes no.2
[18] Nocturnes no.3
[19] Nocturnes no.4
[20] Nocturnes no.5

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l

 
Steve Hackett - Guitar, Arrangement
John Hackett - Flute, Arrangement

Sally Goodworth - Tempo Mapping
Roger KIng - Recording, MIxing
Benedict Ferner - Mastering, Add. recording
Jerry Preal - Add. recording
Kim Poor - Sketches of John and Steve
Harry Pearce - Design
Billy Budis - Management
 

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s

 
"Ah,

but there's the beauty
...in the things

he didn't do."



"It must have taken me a good ten years to find out who had written a haunting melody I kept humming to anyone who was vaguely musical and when I finally did find out, no-one, not even the French, could tell me what a ‘Gymnopédie’ was... I discovered in time that it referred to a frieze of dancers on a Grecian urn... well known to academics perhaps, but to discover it for oneself was all the more powerful.

To return to the present, John and I had long talked about a project involving Satie’s music. Would it require an orchestra or could we use the full tonal range of our own two favoured instruments to create a sound canvas worthy of the keyboard-based writing? Either way it would be a return to our musical roots when we first became aware of ‘Atmospheric’ music, brave enough to remain rhythmically static yet all the more poignant precisely because of that ‘held-back’ quality. There always was a love of music in the family home but not specifically the ‘Classical’ tradition - I’d say we found our way to this music ourselves without being pushed. For us, Satie was definitely a man ahead of his time. Unlikely modulations abound and the Minimalists were to take from him as would Jazz, and where would ‘Ambient’ music be without his example?

However, transposing from piano comes with its own problems... we felt the original keys were perfect for flute but lay outside the range of guitar... detuning my strings to encompass piano range, I moved my 6th string as much as a whole octave lower than usual to give the often complicated harmonies the fullness of support they needed. By way of special thanks, the project would not have been possible without Sally Goodworth’s original tempo map combined with Roger King’s unbelievable patience and concentration during the recording process. I felt like we virtually ‘lived’ in headphones to the extent that they seemed grafted on like an extra limb (it’s possible the Dadaists may have approved the ‘look’ - much like snorkelling cyclists!)... as unreal as it seemed after hundreds of hours when we occasionally had to come up for air. I swear I couldn’t walk a straight line for two months...

Finally, all jokes aside, I can’t fully describe my delight and joy that the sessions went so well and that the album, long overdue, is now complete. I may be sticking my neck out here but I don’t believe John has ever sounded in finer form, he was obviously born to play Satie - as I am sure you’ll agree!

I hope that you’ll be equally captivated, as we were in those early years, by the beauty of one of France’s most original composers."

Steve Hackett - 18th November, 1999



A Genesis egykori gitárosa testvérével közösen készített lemezt

Steve Hackett neve elsösorban a '70-es évek zenéjén nevelkedett, illetve az azt szeretö közönség elött lehet ismert. Méghozzá nem is akárhonnét, mivel Steve a klasszikus felállású, az akkor még Peter Gabriellel megerösített Genesis énekes-gitárosa volt. Itt csillanthatta fel elöször klasszikus gitártudását, és elkötelezettségét a mûfaj iránt. Az európai premierrel egy idöben, - hála a Gramy Records csapatának - május 8-a óta hazánkban is kapható Hackett negyedik klasszikus lemeze, a Sketches Of Satie. Ám nem kell megijedni, a poposabb dolgokhoz szokott fülek is élvezettel hallgathatják az igazán igényes alkotást. A CD külön érdekessége, hogy Steve testvérével, Johnnal közösen dolgozta át a modern francia zeneszerzö, Eric Satie kompozícióit gitárra és fuvolára.

Egyébként Hackettéknek nem ez az elsö közös munkájuk, hiszen Steve szólópályájának kezdetétöl albumainak és zenekarainak is rendszeresen visszatérö szereplöje volt öccse, John Hackett. A sorban egyébként ez már a negyedik lemez, amelyet Hackett a klasszikus gitárzene jegyében készített. Sikereire mi sem jellemzöbb, mint hogy a Londoni Filharmonikusokkal közösen készített elözö albuma, a Midsummer Night's Dreams több hétig vezette a brit klasszikus toplistát. A Hackett testvérek színes és elegáns interpretációja nyomán a zene tisztán és bensöségesen szól hozzánk, igazi nyugtató atmoszférát teremtve. A legjobb lazítószer egy stresszel terhelt zsúfolt programú nap, vagy a suli fáradalmai után. Próbáld ki, érdemes!

MT 521 - 1 - 11
2000-05-12
 

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