Djabe & Steve Hackett – When The Sound Turns Sweet 2CD

GR-174

Every year Djabe & Steve Hackett impress jazz and progressive rock fans with more and more cohesive and powerful performances. The 2023 tour has once again delivered some surprises. The most attention-grabbing of these was the interpretation of the Genesis song Carpet Crawlers, sung fantastically by Péter Kaszás behind the drums. Listening to the whole concert, we feel that the parts are coming together more and more. The musicians and the songs from the repertoire of Djabe, Djabe & Steve Hackett, Genesis and Steve Hackett form an inseparable unit. The musicians perform Camino Royale, Ace Of Wands, Buzzy Island, Last Train To Istanbul and Los Endos with elemental power and energy. These are beautifully counterpointed by lyrical compositions such as Franciska, Horizons, Tale, Hairless Heart, Firth Of Fifth. And jazz fans will not be left unsatisfied either: in Could Have Been or Central European Time, the musicians of Djabe prove that they are without a doubt the leading musicians of the Hungarian jazz scene.

The album was recorded at the closing concert of the 2023 tour in Timisoara on 20 June. At the sold-out concert, the audience of the Banatul Filarmonia cheered the musicians and the performance with continuous applause and many standing ovations.

In the double CD version, two songs were added as a bonus at the end of the material, which had been played the day before at the Győr stop of the tour and had not been performed in Timisoara.