Reviews of Peter Gabriel releases.
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.
It was three years after the end of the tour for Peter Gabriel's most successful album that the accompanying concert film came out in 1990. It has never been released on digital media, but we still take a look at it.
With his fifth solo album, Peter Gabriel made the leap to superstardom in 1986. So was catchy without ever being trite, and enjoyed huge success on both sides of the Atlantic.
A decade after it was filmed the Secret World tour is released in High Definition on Blu-ray and as an improved standard DVD.
The studio album New Blood is followed closely by the concert film from the tour. Peter Gabriel – New Blood Live In London was filmed during two shows that were scheduled specifically for the shooting at the Hammersmith Apollo in London in March 2011.
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.
A collection of essays about Peter Gabriel has come out in the Ashgate Popular And Folk Music series in January 2011.
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.
