Steve Hackett is an artist who has always sought new forms of expression. He brought an elegance and sophistication to his eight albums with Genesis and in a solo career spanning over twenty five years has produced twenty solo albums, each inimitably different from the last. After 2003’s acclaimed rock album “To Watch The Storms” and its classical successor “Metamorpheus” from 2005, the British guitarist now presents “Wild Orchids”, an album that is in many ways a synthesis of its predecessors.

For decades Steve Hackett is regarded as one of the best guitarists from the island as well as world-wide. His complex and characteristic playing left its mark on the music of six studio albums by the early Genesis, and substantially contributed to their succes. Since then elegancy and demand are defining his style, not just as a rock musician. And as a composer for classical guitar he early distinguished himself, too. The song cycle “Metamorpheus“ for acoustic guitar and chamber orchestra is his fifth work in that genre.

Excellent studio album! Ex-Genesis guitarist demonstrates his great musically spectrum!