In 2021, British composer and musician and former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett returns with a new album: "Surrender Of Silence". Like its acoustic predecessor, just released in January, it was recorded during Lockdown, but, "The cobwebs from Lockdown are blown away here in one fell swoop," Hackett says. And that's due to a couple of strong guests in addition to the master himself: "With the monster rhythm section of Jonas Reingold, Craig Blundell, Nick D'Virgilio and Phil Ehart along with Rob Townsend's soaring saxophone and bass clarinet, Nad Sylvan, Amanda Lehmann and myself on vocals, Roger King's gritty, powerful organ and my guitar, we plunge full force into the wild release of energy," Hackett continues They recorded eleven songs together for "Surrender Of Silence". Roger King and Steve's wife Joanna "Jo" Lehmann supported the songwriting again. The result is a musical journey that the musician describes as follows: "We're starting to embrace life again. We can't travel anywhere yet, but this album travels around the world, from the Far East to Africa, with the beautiful vocals of Amanda plus Lorelei and Durga McBroom, Ubaidulloev Sodikhorn's extraordinary dutar and Malik Mansurov's exotic tar ... all tied together with Roger's beautiful orchestral textures, highlighted by Christine Townsend's sublime violin and viola."