2023-12-01 17:30:03
Peter Gabriel, in concert at The O2 Arena, London, June 19, 2023. YORK TILLYER
Friday January 6, the song Panopticom, written, composed and sung by Peter Gabriel, had been posted online on broadcast platforms. A full moon day. With the announcement by the British musician, born February 13, 1950, that others would follow. Every full moon. And this is after the broadcast of Live and Let LiveMonday November 27, that we end up with the entire new album by Peter Gabriel, i/o, released on physical media (CD and 33-rpm), Friday December 1st. Twelve new songs, and the first album of original creations from Gabriel since Up, released in September 2002.
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In the article and interview with Peter Gabriel published as a “world exclusive”, announced on the cover of the May edition of monthly english Uncutjournalist Michael Bonner recalls that, shortly after the release of Upthe musician had specified that he was starting to work on another album, the title of which could be i/o. From time to time, Gabriel will give news, confirming that things were progressing, that he had written more than a hundred songs, that he had to choose, use a phrase, a musical element.
Other desires will have taken over. Collaborations with numerous performers brought together in Big Blue Ball (2008); Gabriel’s versions of songs by David Bowie, Radiohead, Neil Young, Randy Newman, Elbow… for the album Scratch My Back (2010); new arrangements of his songs with a large orchestra in New Blood (2011); a compilation of songs for the cinema, Rated PG (2019), and one of rarities and remixes, Flotsam and Jetsam (2019, electronically). And tours in 2003-2004, in 2007, in 2010, in 2012-2014.
On tour, ahead of the release ofi/o, it was also discussed this year, from May to October, in Europe and North America. Each evening, all of the songs from the album were played, with the exception of So Much, which has only been performed a few times. Which is not so usual for artists with a long career – singer of Genesis, from 1968 to 1975, Peter Gabriel then went solo – who present two or three new releases and especially their hits during their tours. .
Taste for experimentation
Well in keeping with Peter Gabriel’s taste for experimentation – he was one of the first to use the Fairlight CMI synthesizer-sampler in 1980 – it is not a mix, but two of each song that appear in i/o. And bright mixdirected by Mark “Spike” Stent, and a dark mix by Chad Blake. Gabriel didn’t want to choose between bright and dark. In a note sent to the press, he said of Stent that he “loves sound and putting these images together, so he’s more of a painter”when Blake would be a “sculptor constructing a sonic and dramatic journey”.
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