Steve Hackett, the former Genesis guitarist, and Steve Rothery of Marillion have released a joint album, The Roaring Waves. The Italian magazine OndaRock calls it an event that not even the most devoted fans of progressive rock could have imagined. Marillion, after all, formed in the late 1970s under the strong influence of Genesis, before building a language of their own. OndaRock ↗
The project took about eight years to make. "We were both very, very busy, so we couldn't finish any of the ideas," Hackett said in an interview with OndaRock. Four tracks were made at Racket Club, Marillion's studio, and the rest were put together over the last three months. They chose the maritime theme four or five years ago. Hackett and his wife then visited the fishing town of Whitby in North Yorkshire, where Rothery grew up. "It was quite surreal for me. I was walking those streets thinking about how a fifteen-year-old boy, a huge Genesis fan, was now, 45 years later, walking there with one of his childhood heroes," Rothery recalls. OndaRock ↗
The album is entirely instrumental, and the sea serves in it more as a compositional principle than as a story. Rothery's long-sustained tones and melodic phrasing alternate with Hackett's eclecticism, ranging from classical and twelve-string guitar to sitar and slide. The review highlights the opening track The Storm, the slow Sandsend, and the folk-inflected Red Dragon with its hurdy-gurdy, but considers the title track to be the heart of the album. Both guitarists admit the album could have a sequel. OndaRock ↗
Illustrative photo: Steve Hackett at a concert in July 2024. Photo: Stefan Brending (2eight) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Genesis and Marillion guitarists recorded a joint album. Steve Hackett and Steve Rothery release The Roaring Waves
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