{"id":8,"date":"2017-11-01T09:31:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T09:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hacktrax.co.uk\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-01-31T18:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T18:12:08","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hacktrax.co.uk\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About John Hackett"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Solo flautist, guitarist, singer and composer, John is best known for his work with his brother\u00a0Steve Hackett<\/a>, the former Genesis guitarist.<\/p>\n

He began by learning guitar until aged 15, after hearing Ian McDonald\u00a0playing with rock band King Crimson, he took up the flute. He collaborated with Steve on his early albums and toured with him playing flute, guitar and bass pedals.<\/p>\n

He was a founder member of\u00a0Symbiosis<\/a>, with Clive Williamson and Richard Bolton.<\/p>\n

He has recorded several classical solo and duo albums, but\u00a02005 saw a change of direction with John releasing a rock album of his own songs, lyrics by Nick Clabburn,\u00a0Checking Out of London<\/strong>\u00a0which was given 5 stars in Record Collector magazine. \u00a0This was followed by an\u00a0experimental flute\/dance album Red Planet Rhythm<\/strong> with Moodi Drury.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>John has worked alongside Italian organist\u00a0Marco Lo Muscio<\/a>, in live performances across Europe playing a unique blend of classical and progressive music, and they have also collaborated on the\u00a0Playing The History<\/a>\u00a0project.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Since 2012, John has worked with classical guitarist\u00a0Nick Fletcher<\/a>. They have performed as a flute\/guitar duo across England and recorded two albums of instrumental music, the first of which also featured Steve Hackett.<\/p>\n

The release of the rock album\u00a0Another Life<\/strong>\u00a0(on Esoteric Antenna)\u00a0in 2015 was the catalyst to\u00a0forming\u00a0the new\u00a0John Hackett Band\u00a0with Nick, Jeremy Richardson and Duncan Parsons in 2016. Following several live shows, they recorded a new studio album\u00a0We Are Not Alone<\/strong>, released in 2017 with a bonus live disc recorded in May 2016 at the Classic Rock Society in Maltby.<\/p>\n

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He has published three books with backing CDs of original music written specially to help new flute-players to learn the instrument.<\/p>\n

John Hackett is one of the few flautists in the world to play a vertical flute.<\/p>\n

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Solo flautist, guitarist, singer and composer, John is best known for his work with his brother\u00a0Steve Hackett, the former Genesis guitarist. He began by learning guitar until aged 15, after hearing Ian McDonald\u00a0playing with rock band King Crimson, he took … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacktrax.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacktrax.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacktrax.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacktrax.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacktrax.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/hacktrax.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1156,"href":"https:\/\/hacktrax.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/1156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacktrax.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacktrax.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}