25 November 2025: "Hydrology" (DiN94) by Loula Yorke; Reprise - Steve Hackett "The Lamb Stands Up at the Royal Albert hall"

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             Hydrology (DiN94)

by Loula Yorke

Loula Yorke is a UK-based modular synthesist and educator. Her career took off in 2020 when her synth-building workshop Atari Punk Girls was recognised with a coveted Oram Award. Since then, she's released several albums, both via her own label Truxalis and also from ambient electronic specialists such as Quiet Details and Castles in Space. Yorke's hypnotically looping album Volta (2024) was chosen as The Quietus' Album of the Week and Electronic Sound's #2 Album of the Year, as well as earning acclaim from The Wire and BBC6 Music. She's played live in churches, warehouses, and arts centres from Cafe Oto to Tabakalera.

Yorke has a very unique style of playing her modular synthesiser instruments, which relies on both emotional, introspective moments balanced against technical flair and evolving, cyclical patterns. For this, her debut DiN solo release, she has explored the world of water in all its myriad forms. The six separate tracks form a cohesive whole that lives and breathes, growing from beautiful ambient sections through to pulsing oscillations that shimmer and shine. Never staying still at any moment, the music takes on the elusive quality of that most precious of liquids to create an album immersed in Loula’s unique sound world.

This new release from Loula Yorke is another fine addition to the DiN canon and provides a showcase for an electronic musician with a unique, musical vision.

credits

released November 21, 2025

All music composed, recorded and produced by Loula Yorke.

Mastered by Ian Boddy August 2025.

Instrumentation:

Verbos Harmonic Oscillator

Instruo CSL

Nano Ona

Erica Synths Black Sequencer 

Basilimus Iteras Alter 

ALM Squid Salmple

Music Thing Radio Music

System 80 Jove

Doepfer SEM 

Make Noise Mimeophon

Strymon Bluesky

This album is made from water and electricity. An impossible crossing place of surges, currents and gyres; myriad synchronous lifecycles in states of ebb and flow. You might catch a glimpse of a crease or a ripple, a jink or a gleam here or there. Something oscillates, jostles and flares in and out of existence. Savour the sparks.

For me, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is Genesis's Magnum Opus.  I saw the original tour in Columbus, Ohio, on November 27, 1974, and it was outstanding!  Last week I saw this show in Seattle and met Steve Hackett briefly before the show; I took the opportunity to gift Steve and the band (and the tour manager, Adrian) with some Alaskan smoked salmon.  It was fish I caught in Kodiak and had smoked at a local small business.  

Tonight I am indulging myself and playing the "Lamb" portion from the live show recorded in London.

RELEASE DATE: 11 July 2025

Steve Hackett proudly presents 'The Lamb Stands Up Live At The Royal Albert Hall', a stunning audio/visual document of his show at the iconic London venue in October 2024, set for release on the 11th July 2025. Watch the band performing 'The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway' HERE

Steve and his live band celebrate the 50th anniversary of the legendary Genesis concept album 'The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway', with a selection of his favourite tracks from that album including 'Fly On A Windshield' & 'Lilywhite Lilith'. The live set also includes other Genesis & solo classics, including music from his most recent acclaimed album 'The Circus And The Nightwhale'. This special evening saw the band joined by guests including Ray Wilson, Steve Rothery, Amanda Lehmann & John Hackett.

Steve comments: "I was so happy to revisit the Lamb on tour. The Royal Albert Hall evening was particularly memorable. It is my favourite London venue and the atmosphere there that night was absolutely electric... I was really pleased that everyone in the band and the performing guests pulled it off with flying colours!"

Expertly mixed by Grammy-award winning engineer Chris Lord-Alge, and mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound, the night was filmed by longtime collaborator Paul M Green, and is presented as Special Edition 2CD+Blu-ray Digipak which includes 5.1 Surround Sound & bonus interview content. The vinyl arrives as a deluxe 4LP 180g boxset, including 12-page LP-size booklet featuring photos from the evening.

Due to time constraints we will be broadcasting a truncated version of the concert, omitting some tracks from the first half spotlighting Steve's solo work.

 

STEVE HACKETT
THE LAMB STANDS UP LIVE AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL
CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS

Steve Hackett continues his journey through classic Genesis albums with a recording of his favourite songs from the album The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. The Lamb Stands Up Live At The Royal Albert Hall also was also an opportunity for Hackett to promote his then current album, The Circus and The Nightwhale. Other solo and Genesis classics are performed as well. Once again, Hackett is surrounded by an excellent band, and some special guests including Ray Wilson (Genesis), Steve Rothery (Marillion), vocalist Amanda Lehmann and John Hackett (guitarist).

The Lamb Stands Up Live At The Royal Albert Hall opens the show with the brilliant “People of The Smoke” (from Hackett’s 2024 album The Circus and The Nightwhale). While it is very close to the studio version, there is the live energy that can only be caught in front of a live audience. It is a great way to open the concert and this album. He continues with more songs from that album, which come off remarkably well live. “These Passing Clouds” sounds particularly brilliant in concert. He also tackles songs from his 2021 album, Surrender Of Silence (“The Devil’s Cathedral”) and 1975’s classic Voyage of the Acolyte (“Hands Of The Priestess” and “A Tower Struck Down” sound fantastic live, with a few twists and turns from Hackett.

Then he is off into Genesis land. Nad Sylvan’s vocals throughout are spot on, and a great deal of credit must go to his band, Roger King (keyboards), Craig Blundell (drums), Rob Townsend (saxophone, woodwind, percussion, vocals, keyboards, bass pedals) and Jonas Reingold (bass, variax, twelve string, vocals). Not only do they do justice to his solo material, but they bring Genesis to life, live on the stage. This is not an easy task, but they succeed. Hackett is not trying to better Genesis or replace the original. He does, however, do some extremely good versions of some of the songs.

While the songs are faithfully replicated on stage, it is still exciting to hear songs like “Lilywhite”, with Hackett’s melodic solo and Sylvan’s great vocals. The title track, “The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway” explodes with this performance. While “Fly On A Windshield” and “Carpet Crawlers” are faithful to the originals. Hackett also adds a couple of other Genesis favourites, such as “Fifth Of Firth” (from Selling English By The Pound) and “Los Endos” (from Trick Of The Tail). Both of these songs are concert staples for Hackett and his band.

Some fans may argue that Hackett should have done more songs from The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, but Hackett’s choice of material, from his solo albums and Genesis complement each other and form a pretty perfect concert and live recording. The Lamb Stands Up Live At The Royal Albert Hall is a well performed, well recorded live recording. Live recordings are tricky, and some have worked, and some live albums just do not make sense. Not only does The Lamb Stands Up Live At The Royal Albert Hall make sense, but it is an album well worth your time. Hackett and his band are a treat to see live, but this serves as a taste of the Hackett live experience. The Lamb Stands Up Live At The Royal Albert Hall stands up well alongside Hackett’s catalogue, both with and without Genesis.

licenseLoula Yorke is a UK-based modular synthesist and educator. Her career took off in 2020 when her synth-building workshop Atari Punk Girls was recognised with a coveted Oram Award. Since then, she's released several albums, both via her own label Truxalis and also from ambient electronic specialists such as Quiet Details and Castles in Space. Yorke's hypnotically looping album Volta (2024) was chosen as The Quietus' Album of the Week and Electronic Sound's #2 Album of the Year, as well as earning acclaim from The Wire and BBC6 Music. She's played live in churches, warehouses, and arts centres from Cafe Oto to Tabakalera.