Peter Gabriel - Up
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Artist: Peter GabrielEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2002-09-24
Music Label: Interscope
Soundtracks:
- Darkness
- Growing Up
- Sky Blue
- No Way Out
- I Grieve
- The Barry Williams Show
- My Head Sounds Like That
- More Than This
- Signal To Noise
- The Drop
Music reviews of Up
Music Review: Not as good as Us, not as weird as OVO but pretty interesting
Rating: 4 Stars
I've followed Peter Gabriel's solo career and found this work to be closer to his So, Us and Passion of Christ OST style. I found OVO disturbing, and hesitated to purchase this CD at first, but changed my mind after going to his live performance in Caracas, and listening to "Darkness", the opening theme of both the concert and this CD.
I particularly enjoy the mood and rhythm changes of "I Grieve", the voice and percussion mix covering the melodics of "Growing Up" and the delightful piano performance in "The Drop". The fact that almost all tracks are at least six minutes each also made it interesting, but then again, the tracks I didn't name here are so similar to each other they felt like rehashes of the same percussion/voice pattern.
Description of Up
That Up exists at all is faintly miraculous. Over the past seven years, with guests including Youssou N'Dour, Peter Green, the Blind Boys of Alabama, and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Peter Gabriel has held recording sessions in Senegal, Atlanta, Singapore, the French Alps, and on a boat on the Amazon River, as well as at his own RealWorld studios. Having written and prepared over 150 songs, he's managed to cut this huge body of work down to just 10 tracks. There's a remarkable consistency and contemporary feel here that springs from a thoughtful layering process, with Gabriel combining tribal rhythms with complex backing vocals, samples, rock guitar, piano and--crucially--electronic effects. Indeed, the opener, "Darkness," begins with an aggressiveness that recalls the Prodigy, before hints of vulnerability and fear surface. Elsewhere, there is the dreamy "The Drop" and the orchestral heights of "Signal to Noise." Throughout, Gabriel uses water metaphors to put forward his positivist message. And it's all brilliant, sophisticated, and soulful. The man's a marvel and Up is a masterwork. --Dominic WillsAlbum-Oriented Rock (AOR) CDs
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