Darktown

by Steve Hackett

Darktown cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: Camino
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 56:35
  • Community rating: 3.42/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett delivered one of the moodiest, most texturally dense solo records of his extensive career with 'Darktown'. The compositions adeptly interweave intricate progressive rock guitar work with stark electronic programming and unusually dark ambient atmospheres.

Genres

Descriptors: progressive

Tracklist

  1. Omega Metallicus (3:48)
  2. Darktown (4:59)
  3. Man Overboard (4:17)
  4. The Golden Age Of Steam (4:09)
  5. Days Of Long Ago (3:23)
  6. Dreaming With Open Eyes (6:55)
  7. Twice Around The Sun (7:15)
  8. Rise Again (4:26)
  9. Jane Austen's Door (6:13)
  10. Darktown Riot (3:10)
  11. In Memoriam (8:00)

Credits

  • Doug Sinclair - bass, fretless bass
  • Julian Colbeck - keyboards
  • Ian McDonald - saxophone
  • Jim Diamond - vocals, written-by
  • John Hackett - flute, panpipes
  • Hugo Degenhardt - drums
  • Aron Friedman - post production [drum post production], piano, keyboards
  • John Wetton - bass [bass samples], samples [bass samples]

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