Beyond the Shrouded Horizon
album by Stephen Richard Hackett
Beyond the Shrouded Horizon is the twenty-first studio album by English guitarist and songwriter Steve Hackett.
Background and recording
"Loch Lomond" is named after the loch of the same name in Scotland. Hackett described the track as blues-influenced which changes to European music once the strings are heard. The lyrics contain many contradictory images, such as a hummingbird in the snow. Though the song contains what sound like bagpipes, Hackett revealed that the sound is in fact a mix of bagpipe samples and a saxophone with the reed "turned around the other way".
Track listing
"Loch Lomond" (Steve Hackett, Jo Hackett, Roger King) – 6:50
"The Phoenix Flown" (Steve Hackett, Jo Hackett, King) – 2:08
"Wanderlust" (Steve Hackett, Jo Hackett, King) – 0:44
"Til These Eyes" (Steve Hackett, Jo Hackett, King) – 2:41
"Prairie Angel" (Steve Hackett, Jo Hackett, Steve Howe, Jonathan Mover) – 2:59
"A Place Called Freedom" (Steve Hackett, Jo Hackett, King) – 5:57
"Between the Sunset and the Coconut Palms" (Steve Hackett, Jo Hackett, King) – 3:18
"Waking to Life" (Steve Hackett, Jo Hackett, King) – 4:50
"Two Faces of Cairo" (Steve Hackett, Jo Hackett, King) – 5:13
"Looking for Fantasy" (Steve Hackett, Jo Hackett, King) – 4:33
"Summer's Breath" (Steve Hackett, Jo Hackett, King) – 1:12
"Catwalk" (Steve Hackett, Jo Hackett, King) – 5:44
"Turn This Island Earth" (Steve Hackett, Jo Hackett, Steve Howe, Roger King, Jonathan Mover) – 11:51
Bonus CD (limited special edition only)
"Four Winds: North" (Steve Hackett, King) – 1:35
"Four Winds: South" (Steve Hackett, King) – 2:06
"Four Winds: East" (Steve Hackett, Fenner) – 3:34 (previously appeared on Japan edition of Darktown as "The Well at the World's End")
"Four Winds: West" (Steve Hackett, King) – 3:04 (previously appeared on Marco Lo Muscio's The Book of Bilbo and Gandalf as "Galadriel")
"Pieds En L'Air" (Peter Warlock) – 2:26
"She Said Maybe" (Steve Hackett, King) – 4:21
"Enter the Night" (Steve Hackett, Jo Hackett, King) – 4:00 (vocal version of "Depth Charge," a.k.a.
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