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Les Amazones d’Afrique’s new album ‘Musow Danse’ is out now on @RealWorldRecords. Peter Gabriel 2024-02-24 | ...
Explore the Bright and Dark-side of the full moon with i/o, listen on @Spotify Peter Gabriel 2024-02-20 | ...
‘Washing Of The Water’ music video features extracts from ‘Floodlight’, a film by Claire Langan... Peter Gabriel 2024-02-18 | ...
Rare footage of No Self Control recorded live at the Estadio Vélez Sarsfield, Buenos Aires. Peter Gabriel 2024-02-17 | ...
‘Modern Love’, taken from Peter’s first self-titled album, released in 1977. Peter Gabriel 2024-02-12 | ...
Keeping on a love related theme, here’s Lovetown. A song originally recorded for the album Us. Peter Gabriel 2024-02-10 | ...
Peter performing White Shadow during his Rockpalast TV performance in 1978. Peter Gabriel 2024-02-02 | ...
Lovely to see all your photos with the album. Thank you for the amazing continued support for i/o. Peter Gabriel 2024-01-11 | ...
Live and Let Live, features the return of the singers of Soweto Gospel choir. Peter Gabriel 2024-01-10 | ...
The Court music video created by Junie Lau, using AI and stable diffusion. Peter Gabriel 2024-01-07 | ...
‘Here Comes The Flood’ from 1979, featured on the BBC TV Kate Bush Christmas Special. Peter Gabriel 2023-12-23 | ...
i/o also comes in a third version – the In-Side Mix, in Dolby Atmos - courtesy of Hans-Martin Buff Peter Gabriel 2023-12-17 | ...
Throughout the album i/o the intelligent and thoughtful songs tackle life and the universe. Peter Gabriel 2023-12-03 | ...
i/o is a 12-track album with two stereo, Bright-Side and Dark-Side, mixes and a 3D In-Side Mix. Peter Gabriel 2023-12-02 | ...
Peter Gabriel - i/o (album out now) Peter Gabriel 2023-12-01 | Peter Gabriel's album - i/o - is out nowListen / Buy - lnk.to/PG21‘After a years-worth of full moon releases, I’m very happy to see all these new songs back together on the good ship i/o and ready for their journey out into the world.’ – Peter GabrielAt the end of a year in which Peter Gabriel has released a new song on the occasion of every full moon, as well as performed live to rapturous audience throughout the UK, Europe and North America, December 1st, 2023 sees the release of his much-anticipated new studio album, i/o. i/o is 12 tracks of grace, gravity and great beauty that provide welcome confirmation of not only Peter’s ongoing ability to write stop-you-in-your-tracks songs but also of that thrilling voice, still perfectly, delightfully intact. Throughout the album the intelligent and thoughtful – often thought-provoking – songs tackle life and the universe. Our connection to the world around us – ‘I’m just a part of everything’ Peter sings on title track i/o – is a recurring motif, but so too the passing of time, mortality and grief, alongside such themes as injustice, surveillance and the roots of terrorism. But this is not a solemn record. While reflective, the mood is never despondent; i/o is musically adventurous, often joyous and ultimately full of hope, topped off as it is, by the rousingly optimistic closing song, Live and Let Live. Recorded mostly at Real World Studios and Peter’s home studio, the lengthy gestation of i/o means it has a sizeable cast list. Peter has kept his trusty inner circle of musicians close to hand, which means guitarist David Rhodes, bassist Tony Levin and drummer Manu Katché are sterling presences throughout. Several songs bear the fingerprints of long-time associate Brian Eno, whilst there are notable contributions from Richard Russell, pianist Tom Cawley, trumpeters Josh Shpak and Paolo Fresu, cellist Linnea Olsson and keyboard player Don E. Peter’s daughter Melanie contributes warm backing vocals, as does Ríoghnach Connolly of The Breath, while Real World regulars Richard Chappell, Oli Jacobs, Katie May and Richard Evans collectively provide programming and play various instruments. Soweto Gospel Choir and Swedish all-male choir Oprhei Drängar lend their magnificent harmonies to a selection of tracks, and the mass strings of the New Blood Orchestra, led by John Metcalfe, both soothe and soar.Renowned for being a boundary-pushing artist, i/o is not simply a collection of a dozen songs. All 12 tracks are subject to two stereo mixes: the Bright-Side Mix, handled by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent, and the Dark-Side Mix, as reshaped by Tchad Blake. “We have two of the greatest mixers in the world in Tchad and Spike and they definitely bring different characters to the songs. Tchad is very much a sculptor building a journey with sound and drama, Spike loves sound and assembling these pictures, so he’s more of a painter.” Both versions are included on the double-CD package, and are also available separately as double vinyl albums. And that’s not all. A third version – the In-Side Mix, in Dolby Atmos, comes courtesy of Hans-Martin Buff “doing a wonderful job generating these much more three-dimensional mixes” and is included in three-disc set, including Blu-ray.Continuing the idea developed for Peter’s US and UP albums, he has again invited a range of visual artists to contribute a piece of art to accompany the music and each of i/o’s 12 songs were handed to a world-renowned artist to create an accompanying work, whether paint, photography, sculpture or even Plasticine. The dozen artists make an exceedingly impressive team of collaborators: Ai Weiwei, Nick Cave, Olafur Eliasson, Henry Hudson, Annette Messager, Antony Micallef, David Moreno, Cornelia Parker, Megan Rooney, Tim Shaw, David Spriggs and Barthélémy Toguo. Another visual link with Peter’s past work is the cover shot. Taken by photographer Nadav Kander, it echoes with the covers of his earlier albums, always present but, with the exception of So, intriguingly obscured or manipulated. These echoes of the past might resonate, but i/o is fundamentally an album of – and for – the here and now. Many of its themes may be timeless, but they’re also warnings that we’re living on borrowed time, both as a planet and as individuals. As Peter sings on the divine So Much, “this edition is limited”.The wait has been worth every minute. i/o is another triumphant Peter Gabriel record. Tracklist: 1. Panopticom 2. The Court3. Playing for Time 4. i/o5. Four Kinds of Horses6. Road to Joy7. So Much8. Olive Tree9. Love Can Heal 10. This Is Home11. And Still 12. Live And Let Live
In a break from previous months, all three mixes are released simultaneously. Peter Gabriel 2023-11-27 | ...
Today, the 12th full moon of 2023, sees the release of the final track from i/o ‘Live and Let Live’. Peter Gabriel 2023-11-27 | ...
Peter Gabriel - Live and Let Live (Dark-Side Mix) Peter Gabriel 2023-11-27 | The twelfth full moon of 2023, sees the release of the final track to be revealed from Peter Gabriel’s album i/o. This final song, the last to be written for the album, is called Live and Let Live. This is the Dark-Side Mix by Tchad Blake.lnk.to/PG21Also available is the Bright-Side Mix by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent and the Atmos In-Side Mix by Hans-Martin Buff.The song is accompanied by the striking ‘Soundsuit’ artwork of Chicago based artist Nick Cave.Written and produced by Peter Gabriel, Live and Let Live is a song about forgiveness, tolerance and optimism. A joyous, rousingly-positive closing note for the album. ‘Music can be like a box of mood pills that we can use to treat ourselves and a lot of the work of the Reverberation project is focused on that sort of idea. When someone suggested that forgiveness might be a topic to write about, at first, I thought, ‘that's not interesting to me,’ but then I remembered two things. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who was the chair of The Elders and a real mentor for me, led the Truth and Reconciliation Committee in South Africa and that really allowed people to expose, report and maybe feel again some of the horrors of the apartheid era. I remember he always said that listening made a huge difference, just making sure people felt heard and recognized. Then, sometimes, it created a space for forgiveness. There's also a description that Nelson Mandela gave when he was released from jail after 27 years in prison and found himself about to become president of South Africa, standing next to some of the people who'd been responsible for keeping him in jail all that time. He said he felt some of the old fear and hatred swelling up inside him but when he thought hard about it, he realized that he needed to find a way to work with these people, to build what he called his rainbow coalition. He needed to feel their humanity and ultimately to find a way to forgive them. He was quite sure that if he couldn't forgive them and find a way to work with them, that he would remain their prisoner for the rest of his days.Now, I know if we look at what's happening in the Middle East now or in Ukraine, all sorts of places around the world where there's still violence and brutality, to walk around with a bunch of flowers, preaching forgiveness seems trite and pathetic, maybe. But in the long run, I think people have to find a way. ‘Peace only happens when you respect the rights of others’ is a quote from the Peace University in Costa Rica and I think that's a really important message for me and for my life. You either belong to that hurt or you free yourself and forgiveness is clearly a super effective way of freeing yourself.’Live and Let Live, the last song to have been written for the album, features contributions from many players already heard on other songs, such as Tony Levin, David, Rhodes, Manu Katché, Brian Eno, Melanie Gabriel, John Metcalfe and the New Blood Orchestra. Notable other contributions come from Steve Gadd ‘wonderful grooves created with brushes’ that are looped at the start of the song, some beautiful trumpet by Paolo Fresu ‘soulful and poetic’ and the return of the singers of Soweto Gospel choir ‘great voices and this deep soulfulness, their additions are always wonderful for me.’These November full moon releases all come with artwork ‘Soundsuit’ by Nick Cave.‘Nick Cave does a lot performance, movement and dance work, but these extraordinary figures, for which he is best known, ‘Soundsuits’, are amazing. They are like armour. Beneath all this exuberant colour you can’t actually sense the race, the class, the wealth or the gender of the person wearing the Soundsuit, so, you have that sense that you are not going to get attacked for pre-conceived ideas about who you are or what people like you are like… it’s a very positive spin on a negative situation. Nick’s work is very interesting and unusual and I am very glad that he was happy to be part of this.’
Peter Gabriel - Live and Let Live (Bright-Side Mix) Peter Gabriel 2023-11-27 | The twelfth full moon of 2023, sees the release of the final track to be revealed from Peter Gabriel’s album i/o. This final song, the last to be written for the album, is called Live and Let Live. This is the Bright-Side Mix by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent. lnk.to/PG21Also available is the Dark-Side Mix by Tchad Blake and the Atmos In-Side Mix by Hans-Martin Buff.The song is accompanied by the striking ‘Soundsuit’ artwork of Chicago based artist Nick Cave.Written and produced by Peter Gabriel, Live and Let Live is a song about forgiveness, tolerance and optimism. A joyous, rousingly-positive closing note for the album. ‘Music can be like a box of mood pills that we can use to treat ourselves and a lot of the work of the Reverberation project is focused on that sort of idea. When someone suggested that forgiveness might be a topic to write about, at first, I thought, ‘that's not interesting to me,’ but then I remembered two things. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who was the chair of The Elders and a real mentor for me, led the Truth and Reconciliation Committee in South Africa and that really allowed people to expose, report and maybe feel again some of the horrors of the apartheid era. I remember he always said that listening made a huge difference, just making sure people felt heard and recognized. Then, sometimes, it created a space for forgiveness. There's also a description that Nelson Mandela gave when he was released from jail after 27 years in prison and found himself about to become president of South Africa, standing next to some of the people who'd been responsible for keeping him in jail all that time. He said he felt some of the old fear and hatred swelling up inside him but when he thought hard about it, he realized that he needed to find a way to work with these people, to build what he called his rainbow coalition. He needed to feel their humanity and ultimately to find a way to forgive them. He was quite sure that if he couldn't forgive them and find a way to work with them, that he would remain their prisoner for the rest of his days.Now, I know if we look at what's happening in the Middle East now or in Ukraine, all sorts of places around the world where there's still violence and brutality, to walk around with a bunch of flowers, preaching forgiveness seems trite and pathetic, maybe. But in the long run, I think people have to find a way. ‘Peace only happens when you respect the rights of others’ is a quote from the Peace University in Costa Rica and I think that's a really important message for me and for my life. You either belong to that hurt or you free yourself and forgiveness is clearly a super effective way of freeing yourself.’Live and Let Live, the last song to have been written for the album, features contributions from many players already heard on other songs, such as Tony Levin, David, Rhodes, Manu Katché, Brian Eno, Melanie Gabriel, John Metcalfe and the New Blood Orchestra. Notable other contributions come from Steve Gadd ‘wonderful grooves created with brushes’ that are looped at the start of the song, some beautiful trumpet by Paolo Fresu ‘soulful and poetic’ and the return of the singers of Soweto Gospel choir ‘great voices and this deep soulfulness, their additions are always wonderful for me.’These November full moon releases all come with artwork ‘Soundsuit’ by Nick Cave.‘Nick Cave does a lot performance, movement and dance work, but these extraordinary figures, for which he is best known, ‘Soundsuits’, are amazing. They are like armour. Beneath all this exuberant colour you can’t actually sense the race, the class, the wealth or the gender of the person wearing the Soundsuit, so, you have that sense that you are not going to get attacked for pre-conceived ideas about who you are or what people like you are like… it’s a very positive spin on a negative situation. Nick’s work is very interesting and unusual and I am very glad that he was happy to be part of this.’
Peter Gabriel - Full Moon Update November 2023 Peter Gabriel 2023-11-27 | Peter Gabriel's Full Moon Club update for November 2023 - it's the beaver moon and the twelfth and last track to be taken from the album i/o. This month Peters is talking about the song Live and Let Live.Listen to music from i/o - lnk.to/PG21The song is accompanied by the striking ‘Soundsuit’ artwork of Chicago based artist Nick Cave.Written and produced by Peter Gabriel, Live and Let Live is a song about forgiveness, tolerance and optimism. A joyous, rousingly-positive closing note for the album. ‘Music can be like a box of mood pills that we can use to treat ourselves and a lot of the work of the Reverberation project is focused on that sort of idea. When someone suggested that forgiveness might be a topic to write about, at first, I thought, ‘that's not interesting to me,’ but then I remembered two things. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who was the chair of The Elders and a real mentor for me, led the Truth and Reconciliation Committee in South Africa and that really allowed people to expose, report and maybe feel again some of the horrors of the apartheid era. I remember he always said that listening made a huge difference, just making sure people felt heard and recognized. Then, sometimes, it created a space for forgiveness. There's also a description that Nelson Mandela gave when he was released from jail after 27 years in prison and found himself about to become president of South Africa, standing next to some of the people who'd been responsible for keeping him in jail all that time. He said he felt some of the old fear and hatred swelling up inside him but when he thought hard about it, he realized that he needed to find a way to work with these people, to build what he called his rainbow coalition. He needed to feel their humanity and ultimately to find a way to forgive them. He was quite sure that if he couldn't forgive them and find a way to work with them, that he would remain their prisoner for the rest of his days.Now, I know if we look at what's happening in the Middle East now or in Ukraine, all sorts of places around the world where there's still violence and brutality, to walk around with a bunch of flowers, preaching forgiveness seems trite and pathetic, maybe. But in the long run, I think people have to find a way. ‘Peace only happens when you respect the rights of others’ is a quote from the Peace University in Costa Rica and I think that's a really important message for me and for my life. You either belong to that hurt or you free yourself and forgiveness is clearly a super effective way of freeing yourself.’Live and Let Live, the last song to have been written for the album, features contributions from many players already heard on other songs, such as Tony Levin, David, Rhodes, Manu Katché, Brian Eno, Melanie Gabriel, John Metcalfe and the New Blood Orchestra. Notable other contributions come from Steve Gadd ‘wonderful grooves created with brushes’ that are looped at the start of the song, some beautiful trumpet by Paolo Fresu ‘soulful and poetic’ and the return of the singers of Soweto Gospel choir ‘great voices and this deep soulfulness, their additions are always wonderful for me.’These November full moon releases all come with artwork ‘Soundsuit’ by Nick Cave.‘Nick Cave does a lot performance, movement and dance work, but these extraordinary figures, for which he is best known, ‘Soundsuits’, are amazing. They are like armour. Beneath all this exuberant colour you can’t actually sense the race, the class, the wealth or the gender of the person wearing the Soundsuit, so, you have that sense that you are not going to get attacked for pre-conceived ideas about who you are or what people like you are like… it’s a very positive spin on a negative situation. Nick’s work is very interesting and unusual and I am very glad that he was happy to be part of this.’Video of Soweto Gospel Choir by Jacques Du Plessi
Burn You Up, Burn You Down taken from the Still Growing Up Live concert film. Peter Gabriel 2023-11-25 | ...
Peter and the band performing Mercy Street’ in the round at the centre of the Filaforum arena. Peter Gabriel 2023-11-19 | ...
“I was trying also to write a little bit in the style of the music that my parents responded to.”-PG Peter Gabriel 2023-11-16 | ...
The third track released from i/o on the worm moon, 7th March was Playing for Time. Peter Gabriel 2023-11-15 | ...
Peter Gabriel - And Still (Bright-Side Mix) Peter Gabriel 2023-11-13 | And Still is the eleventh and penultimate track to be released from Peter Gabriel's album i/o. This is the Bright-Side Mix, by Mark 'Spike' Stent, released on the new moon, Monday 13 November 2023.Listen to And Stil: lnk.to/PG21 Written and produced by Peter Gabriel, And Still is arguably one of the most skin-prickingly personal songs that Peter Gabriel has ever written. It is not just an elegy, it’s also an exploration of the nature of memory: how it tethers us, how it secures us.‘I wrote a song for my dad a number of years back, which I was actually able to play him, which was ‘Father, Son’. When my mum died, I wanted to do something for her, but it's taken a while before I felt comfortable and distant enough to be able to write something.‘I was trying also to write a little bit in the style of the music that my parents responded to, so I think there is some music from the 40s probably that had an influence on the song. In the middle I wanted to write my mum a beautiful melody. She loved classical music, so we have a beautiful cello playing there. It took a while to get that right, it can't be too emotional or too underplayed, but I think we got there in the end.’And Still has been a stand-out moment in the recent i/o tour, with the cello part played by Ayanna Witter-Johnson, but in the studio recording the solo cello comes courtesy of the New Blood Orchestra’s Ian Burdge. This October full moon release comes with artwork from the artist Megan Rooney and one of her trademark large-scale paintings ‘And Still (Time).’‘The art this month is from one of my favourites, an artist called Megan Rooney.I first came across her when she was doing these very fast faces. She'd do one a day and they had so much character, I fell in love with those. Megan was the first person that was approached about this project and she showed me some of the abstract work that she'd been doing, which I thought was beautiful.There was one piece that I think we both thought felt right for the song, for the mood. Then, in fact, Megan said, "I really want to create something new for this," and she started it, but just like with my creative process she got to a point where she didn't think she had quite nailed it. I know from my own work that sometimes I have to leave it and come back to it to find the right path.In the end Megan suggested "maybe we should use this existing one, instead," which is what we have done. I'm still hoping that we'll get to the end with the other one, but this is a beautiful piece.Megan Rooney, adds: ‘First only working from the memory of Peter’s song so that I could find my way into the world he had created. And slowly, as I started to listen to sections of the song, a feeling of longing grasped hold of me and I was transported back to my mother’s garden. I typically paint in rapid, concentrated bursts and Peter’s song has a slow, undulating pace to it. The song really cradles you in its arms as much as it lets you soar, so I had to be patient to find a way to respond.’And Still comes with differing mix approaches from Mark ‘Spike’ Stent (Bright-Side Mix) here, as well as from Tchad Blake (Dark-Side Mix) and Hans-Martin Buff’s Atmos mix (In-Side Mix).
When we were doing the string demos for ‘And Still’, John Metcalfe was using a ‘Sul Tasto‘ sample Peter Gabriel 2023-11-09 | ...
“My parents, once I was born, never moved from that house, and that is a rare thing these days” - PG Peter Gabriel 2023-11-05 | ...
‘And Still’ is arguably one of the most skin-prickingly personal songs that Peter has ever written. Peter Gabriel 2023-11-01 | ...
And Still is not just an elegy, it’s also an exploration of the nature of memory Peter Gabriel 2023-10-29 | ...
Peter Gabriel - Full Moon Update October 2023 Peter Gabriel 2023-10-28 | Peter Gabriel's Full Moon Club update for October 2023 - it's the hunter's moon and we find Peter just back from the North American tour. In the video he discusses the release of And Still, the eleventh, and penultimate, track to be taken from the album i/o.Listen to music from i/o - lnk.to/PG21 Written and produced by Peter Gabriel, And Still is arguably one of the most skin-prickingly personal songs that Peter Gabriel has ever written. It is not just an elegy, it’s also an exploration of the nature of memory: how it tethers us, how it secures us.‘I wrote a song for my dad a number of years back, which I was actually able to play him, which was ‘Father, Son’. When my mum died, I wanted to do something for her, but it's taken a while before I felt comfortable and distant enough to be able to write something.‘I was trying also to write a little bit in the style of the music that my parents responded to, so I think there is some music from the 40s probably that had an influence on the song. In the middle I wanted to write my mum a beautiful melody. She loved classical music, so we have a beautiful cello playing there. It took a while to get that right, it can't be too emotional or too underplayed, but I think we got there in the end.’And Still has been a stand-out moment in the recent i/o tour, with the cello part played by Ayanna Witter-Johnson, but in the studio recording the solo cello comes courtesy of the New Blood Orchestra’s Ian Burdge. This October full moon release comes with artwork from the artist Megan Rooney and one of her trademark large-scale paintings ‘And Still (Time).’‘The art this month is from one of my favourites, an artist called Megan Rooney.I first came across her when she was doing these very fast faces. She'd do one a day and they had so much character, I fell in love with those. Megan was the first person that was approached about this project and she showed me some of the abstract work that she'd been doing, which I thought was beautiful.There was one piece that I think we both thought felt right for the song, for the mood. Then, in fact, Megan said, "I really want to create something new for this," and she started it, but just like with my creative process she got to a point where she didn't think she had quite nailed it. I know from my own work that sometimes I have to leave it and come back to it to find the right path.In the end Megan suggested "maybe we should use this existing one, instead," which is what we have done. I'm still hoping that we'll get to the end with the other one, but this is a beautiful piece.'Megan Rooney, adds: ‘First only working from the memory of Peter’s song so that I could find my way into the world he had created. And slowly, as I started to listen to sections of the song, a feeling of longing grasped hold of me and I was transported back to my mother’s garden. I typically paint in rapid, concentrated bursts and Peter’s song has a slow, undulating pace to it. The song really cradles you in its arms as much as it lets you soar, so I had to be patient to find a way to respond.’And Still comes with differing mix approaches from Tchad Blake (Dark-Side Mix), here, and also Mark ‘Spike’ Stent (Bright-Side Mix) and Hans-Martin Buff’s Atmos mix (In-Side Mix), released in mid-November on the next new moon.
