Guitar Noir

Artist: Steve Hackett
Label: Original Masters UK
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 636551559126
EAN: 0636551559126
ASIN: B00000K3LL

Release Date: 1999-07-30

Guitar Noir

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Tracks:

Sierra Quemada
Take These Pearls
There Are Many Sides To The Night
In The Heart Of The City
Dark As The Grave
Lost In Your Eyes
Little America
Like An Arrow
Theatre Of Sleep
Walking Away From Rainbows
Paint Your Picture
Vampyre With A Healthy Appetite
Tristesse
Sierra Quermada (Demo)
Take These Pearls (Rough Mix)
In The Heart Of The City (Original Version)
Vampyre With A Healthy Appetite (Demo)

Customer Reviews:

Good CD from 1992.......2005-12-31

This CD was originally released in 1992 and was 56 minutes long. It was later released as a budget double CD along with the acoustic live album, There Are Many Sides to the Night. Both of those are out of print and only available used. The current version of this CD includes four bonus tracks and is 75 minutes long.

The bonus tracks on this CD are worthless and actually make the CD worse. They are just demo versions of four of the songs already on the CD. They are inferior versions of the tracks.

Other than the bonus tracks, this is a very nice CD from Hackett. It starts out a little weak, with one of Hackett's typical instrumentals. It isn't bad, but it is basically the same thing he has done for 20 years. The rest of the album are some interesting songs with some great playing.

The middle part of the CD is especially good, with There Are Many Sides to the Night, Dark As A Grave and Lost in Your Eyes.

I think this CD is much better than many of Hackett's albums from the late seventies and early eighties.

Musical depth that never grows old........2002-11-05

Steve Hackett is a complex musician, drawing influence from a wide variety of styles and melding them into listenable songs. Great albums are to me always unique to themselves, something unlike anything else in the world, and this cd is in that catagory. The sheer musical diversity shown on this cd is jaw-dropping, but what is more surprising is that it works amazingly well. Reverb and echo are prominent throughout, you feel as if you are hearing the songs in a great domed auditorium. This works especially well on "Walking Away from Rainbows" and "Sierra Quemada" the first a soft, whimsical acoustic guitar piece, the second being electric, angular, and epic. "Take These Pearls" is a flamenco piece that seems to walk out of a waking dream, while " Little America" is a rather simple pop song risen to the level of high art through the skill of these impeccable musicians. Guitar players are like architects, most build cape cods, here Hackett builds cathedrals. Fortunately the supporting musicians are every bit as good as he is, which makes for a very rich album that bears many listenings. The production is clear and the pace is varied and enjoyable. If you're looking for a single cd that showcases the depth and breadth of Steve Hackett's compositional artistry than look no further. "Guitar Noir" is a beautiful, many faceted gem.

A Gift For Someone You Care About.......2002-09-20

On tour before releasing this album, Steve Hackett introduced "Sierra Quemada" as "The Flight Of The Condor." He changed the name for this album's release--it turned out there was already a copyrighted work somewhere by the same name. That one cannot be as hauntingly beautiful as Hackett's song here. This is a man with a musical gift and a great talent for playing the guitar. This one track is worth price of the entire album. And there's more.."Take These Pearls" is heaven. Even though it's short, "Paint Your Picture" grabs you with its swirling vocals. Very effective--and delightful. Who wouldn't enjoy "Vampyre With A Healthy Appetite"? Go out and buy two copies of this CD. Keep one for yourself and give one as gift to someone you care about.

Not only guitar........2001-12-04

This is a wonderful work from a superb musician and brilliant guitar player. Hackett grew under the shade of the enormous talent of Peter Gabriel during the Genesis era. And maybe due to that his creativity was not so visible. Now we have here a mature young composer performing a set of excellent tracks that lets us close our eyes and fly in the soft musical mist he creates.
In a classical composers comparison, Joe Satriani's works are a kind of Richard Wagner at a full orchestra Lohengrin, while in these compositions Steve Hackett could be paralleled to the most poetic Puccini in, say, La Boheme.

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