Reviews of Peter Gabriel releases on CD or SACD (Super Audio CD)
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of So the album came out as a new remaster. It had been announced that it would be guided by the original release after the 2002 remaster. Soundmaster Tom Morgenstern checks out the technical results.
In 2011, Peter Gabriel releases an album of his own songs, recorded with an orchestra – it is called New Blood. Christian Gerhardts shares his impressions.
His first solo album was an new departure for Peter Gabriel. He was looking for styles, for his own way of expressing himself – and for trust in the music business. Not quite sure-footed, but large potential became visible.
In 2010 Peter Gabriel released a breathtakingly expensive Deluxe Edition from his new album Scratch My Back. Martin Klinkhardt checked it out.
In the early 90s Peter Gabriel set up the RealWorld Recording Weeks where artists from all across the world would record music in a kind of “musical brainstorming”. One thing that came out of this is the album Big Blue Ball. It is not a Peter Gabriel album, but a collaboration project that took more than fifteen years to be released. Gabriel can be heard on four of the songs.
Peter Gabriel releases an album full of cover versions. Scratch My Back was recorded without a band, but with a full orchestra. Christian Gerhardts, Martin Klinkhardt and Steffen Gerlach have listened carefully…
Passion is a new beginning in many ways:It is Peter Gabriel’s first real film score, the first release on his new label RealWorld and not least an eminent body of music that helped making world music popular. Martin Klinkhardt checked it out for you.
After his unconventional third album Gabriel began to experiment more and more with world music and new technologies, and it shows on Gabriel’s fourth album. Though it is untitled again it is commonly know as Security.
Five years after he left Genesis Peter Gabriel recorded a key album of his career. Biko was a song that left its mark on Peter Gabriel the musician as well as the person. The third album is also the birthplace of the legendary Phil Collins drum sound.
In 1986 Peter Gabriel boosted his popularity with his album So that became a big hit on both sides of the Atlantic.
