Reviews of Peter Gabriel releases on CD or SACD (Super Audio CD)
At the core of the So25 boxset, the So DNA CD permits exciting glimpses at how the album developed. Here is our attempt at an analysis.
Peter Gabriel releases all shows from his 2012 Back To Front show on 2CD and USB-sticks. The Encore Series 2012 reviewed.
Surprisingly, Gabriel's concert film of 1987 was not only included in the So25 Deluxe Edition on DVD but also as a 2CD audio set. We give you a rundown of the new mix and arrangement.
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.
