“Steve Hackett asked, ‘Do you want paid or shall I record for your next album?’ I said, ‘I’ll forget the money in two weeks – your solo will be there forever”: Orphaned Land updated Plato to make a point about revolution

A portrait of kobi garhi holding his tattooed arm up to the camera.

In 2018 Israeli proggers Orphaned Land released their sixth album, Unsung Prophets And Dead Messiahs, adapted from a 2,000-year-old allegory. Ahead of the launch, lead vocalist Kobi Farhi explained why he’d given up trying to change the world, celebrated the cultural diversity that informed his band’s music, and explained how Steve Hackett came to be heard on the track Chains Fall To Gravity.

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