Full Moon, High Tide

PeterGabriel.com has a nice tidbit from the archives – Feed the Fire, a precursor to Downside Up, and some interesting lyrics in there, some familiar, some not.

http://petergabriel.com/moonclub/downloads/

‘Feed The Flame’ is a 1992 mix of a track from the US sessions in 90-91, with hint of Dan Lanois on guitar along with the usual band suspects of the period. The track was later developed in ‘Downside-Up" from the ‘OVO’ album.

Also, this news item from Digital Theatre Systems, Inc.:

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050523/235223.html?.v=1

Real World Records Offers Free Download of a DTS Surround Music Track for the First Time
Monday May 23, 7:00 am ET

First Record Label to Utilize a DTS 5.1-Channel Track Download for Online Promotion

TWYFORD, United Kingdom–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 23, 2005–DTS (Digital Theater Systems, Inc.) (NASDAQ:DTSI – News) announces that Real World Records is promoting its new title Moksha by offering a free download of a unique DTS surround music version of the first track of the album. This is the first time that Real World Records has offered a promotional download of a DTS 5.1-channel track, which can be found at http://realworldrecords.com/amjad/.

Fans of the Indian classical music genre raga can easily obtain the seven-minute track from the Real World site by burning the downloaded DTS file onto a CD-R. The CD-R can then be played back in a standard surround sound system with DTS, allowing fans to enjoy the track, by Amjad Ali Khan, for free. The track, "Sandhya," offers an atmospheric surround sound mix by engineer Ben Findlay, who also mixed the live sound on Peter Gabriel’s recent tour. Real World describes the composition as having "the age-old flavour of early evening ragas. It’s like a twilight moment moving from light into dark, plus an obvious feeling of loneliness."

"This album gives the listener a variety of ragas, including some folk music from two beautiful states of India — West Bengal and Himachal Pradesh," Amjad Ali Khan explained. "I just want listeners to enjoy the music and the feelings it creates without knowing any technical background. The surround download that Real World is offering in DTS truly submerges the listener."

York Tillyer, Interactive Director at Real World, commented: "The CD album release is stereo, but we recorded the album sessions in 5.1 and thought that offering a download of the multi-channel track in DTS would be a compelling promotion. This music is certainly an interesting alternative to many surround recordings currently available."

"This is a wonderful way for consumers to own a beautiful piece of music in DTS that they would not otherwise experience in surround sound," said Gerben van Duyl, Director of Business Development, Consumer for DTS.

May 24th, 2005 by Jakks

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Now Showing at the Solsburian Cineplex: A Family Portrait

Just a friendly reminder to the three Solsburians who were too darn cheap to buy this as an Import…

The Anna Gabriel directed documentary A Family Portrait is now available in North America. It’s a must-have for the die hard Gabefan…lots of fun family insight and almost none of the swearing of the Osbournes. We’d also suggest that you also get Play with your purchase, but you probably already have that one, too.

May 19th, 2005 by Jakks

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New competition at PeterGabriel.com… oh, and the weevils.

The Full Moon is up,and despite Tina having a couple issues with web publishing, the last competition’s winners have been announced (congratulations, Rob!). The new competition involves a 30 word essay on why you would like to join them at Womad Reading. And the prize is – "a pair of tickets, complete with backstage passes, for this year’s Reading Rivermead Womad festival (please note that this does not include travel or accommodation). Runners-up will receive a Womad T-shirt." The deadline is June 8th, so all you who can be at Womad Rivermead in Reading, UK 29th – 31st July 2005, get writing!

Also, in the archive, it states that was NOT PG at the performance of "The Lamb," in fact, PG was in the states at the time. Plus there is a nice bit of information about the last audio offering on the Moon, "This is the Road."

Also, the forums have been down, and the official line is "it looks like we have another weevil infestation in some of the database core-flux modules."

Weevils. HA!

May 14th, 2005 by Jakks

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Passion Released on SACD – Great review from the Malaysian STAR

Review is excerpted here. To read the full article, click here.

Passion

Artist: Peter Gabriel

(Real World/EMI)

Reviewer: CHUA CHERN TOONG
Look up the phrase “musical polymath” in the dictionary, and more than likely, you’ll find Peter Gabriel’s grizzled, grey-bearded mug next to it. It might be a cliché to say that the ex-Genesis frontman is one of the few Western rock veterans to successfully delve into the diverse realm of the worldbeat genre (Paul Simon and David Byrne also come to mind) without stooping to the level of condescension, but the fact remains that Gabriel has done more than any other major artist to bring the nuances of world music to the charts, for better or worse.

. . .

Gabriel’s Real World record label and annual Womad (World of Music, Arts and Dance) festivals are enduring high points in the worldbeat environment, with notables like Geoffrey Oryema, Sheila Chandra and Ustad Nusrat himself all getting their initial big breaks in the rock world through contracts and appearances at these institutions.

So, it was appropriate enough that it was Gabriel that Martin Scorsese turned to when he was looking for someone to score his controversial motion picture The Last Temptation of Christ way back in 1989.

Having been brought abroad, Gabriel then cleverly eschewed the usual orchestral click tracks that more orthodox composers like John Williams and Trevor Jones normally utilise to shape a film score.

Instead, he chose to meticulously create a jaw-droppingly lavish tapestry of music and sounds inspired by the film’s epochal accents, in the process engendering a landmark recording that is so amazing and breathtaking in its breadth and depth, that it has become the definitive yardstick in the continuing evolution of worldbeat thus far. It also deservedly won a clutch of awards, including the Grammy for Best New Age Performance in 1990.

Passion has now been remastered and re-released, and available in SACD format for all you avid technophiles who must surely be salivating in anticipation for something like this.

. . .

Only one word can aptly be used to describe Passion: timeless.

Timeless in its polyglot musical reach, and timeless in its amazing ability to realistically evoke the sights and sounds of a long-bygone era. There has never been a soundtrack like Passion before it was initially put out, and no other film score has come close to matching its ingenuous combination of Eastern esoterica and Western firepower since then (not to mention its panoramic, haunting atmosphere).

To have it finally available on SACD format is a definite treat for audio devotees who also happen to appreciate Gabriel’s unparalleled talents. A monumental achievement, any way you look at it.

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May 7th, 2005 by Jakks

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