Posts by Christophe L

I can't precisely rate each track. There are too many that I really like.

And some tracks are growing like I/O with I found too simple at first, but now I find it's melody quite strong and I love the lyrics.

It's a great experience to listen to the whole album. The Atmos Mixes sound so good on my 5.1 system. It's very different from the AirPods experience. I wasn't convinced by some of the Atmos mixes on AirPods. The balance felt sometimes a little weird.

My #1's are

So Much

And Still

Strong #2:

Playing For Time

Four Kinds Of Horses

Love Can Heal

Live And Let Live

Excellent #3:

Road To Joy

Panopticom

The Court

i/o

and good #4 :

Olive Tree

This Is Home

I like the track a lot. It sounds fresh to my ears, and it is also quite ambitious and creative to my ears.

I prefer the dark side mix. It has much more mood and I like its balance better.

Overall for I/O I think Mark Spike Stent is an amazing mixer, there is a fanstastic sound quality in his mixes, but Tchad Blake has a better feeling for PG's songs. He brings out more atmosphere.

I find the song ambitious, profound but also accessible.

I was very moved the first time I heard the recording ...

I really like a lot most of the tracks.

For the moment my ranking would be

And still

Four kinds of horses

So much

Playing for time

The court

Panopticom

Road to Joy

Love can heal

This is home

I/O

Olive tree

Very moving and beautiful song🔆

I/O contains so many strong songs.

I still can't really rate it, but it's amongst his best albums.

Quote from rjhatcher

Very interesting Full Moon video. Peter referenced the change in artwork. He also said he probably carry on with the Full Moon releases ‘next time around’… whether that means for the surplus stuff after i/o or when the next album is ready (in 1-20 years 😃), I’m not sure. The middle section of This Is Home is interesting; I don’t recall this being played on the tour.

It unfortunately probably means he won't go on and continue with the releases immediately after the last I/O track

Quote from ecirb73

D'ailleurs, la question est: lors de la présentation de l'album au Womad, c'est le Atmos-mix Hans-Martin Buff qui a été diffusé mais est-ce un mix totalement à part entière ou qui reprend plutôt celui de T. Blake ou celui de Mark Stent?

C'est un mix à part entière. Tous ces mix Atmos sont dispo sur Amazon ou Apple Music

Quote from Christian

The majority of OVO never was recorded by Peter in a PG version. He offered Son Of Ovo to his American record company at the time, but they wanted to do HIT. So that never was finished. Make Tomorrow Today is an exception. White Ashes was played live but to this day there is no reliable info whether or not a studio version exists.

I'm not sure about that. If Pg offered it to his record company it means it was close to be finished. He wouldn't have proposed something if there was still a lot of work to be done on it

Also I remember an old interview of Richard chappell in SOS where he talked about working on son of Ovo.

I really hope we'll be able to hear that version sometime.

Quote from Christian

Plenty of options. It's also quite possible he keeps doing full moon releases and doesn't do a follow up physical record.

In the end we do not know what the future brings for Peter. It's quite possible that i/o will be his last album. Anything beyond is a bonus.

Yes of course. For me I/O is already kind of an unexpected bonus !

Most likely I think (I hope) he'll go on with the full moon releases. Probably not enough tracks for another full album. But it could be completed with The Veil, Baby Man or other unreleased tracks. In his interview he talked about wanting to find a home (an album) for some of those tracks. As you say, we'll see ...

There probably won't be any bonus track for I/O if he plans to release a second album (O/I ?)

Quote from federico

Hello friends of the forum

After the session at WOMAD could someone who is attending please let us know what impression you got from the album i/o and if there is talk of a release date on LP/cd. Also could you let us know how long it is and which versions are Bright or Dark, for example.

The session at womad will play the Atmos mixes.

Quote from rjhatcher

It was before ‘Olive Tree’ and I’ve just found a clip on YouTube: “…and in this particular story, which is the next project after i/o and possibly o/i”.

Therefore, if it’s part of that story, it’s possible that ‘Olive Tree’ won’t be on i/o? Although ‘Road to Joy’ is on i/o and is part of the ‘brain project’…

Thank you so much for finding this!

He doesn’t sound like he’s joking with OI…?

Yes all these stories about the "next project" are a bit confusing😅

how can road to joy also be linked to the next project? 🤨 ?

Peter's mind is as always fast and hard to follow

Quote from rjhatcher

He mentioned ‘o/i’ as a potential follow-up project to ‘i/o’ at the London show, and I couldn’t tell whether he was joking or not.

Do you know before with song? Is there a YT video of it ?

From what I remember from the concert " and still " isn't a short track either. We'll see. The one hour anouncement seems a little approximative. It could easily be 63 minutes

Average length of the first 7 tracks are around 5 minutes. If total length is about 1 hour, that leaves room for 5 extra tracks, as planned.

We haven't got the deep dive from so much yet ? Will we get one ?

I get -much- more emotion from the dark side mix. This bright side mix is beautifully done, but I feel much more distance with the voice. It doesn't have the same impact.

In fact So much is the one that touches me the most deeply. The singing is perfect. An instant classic track.

With the shock of So much being such a strong and emotional song (I hadn't imagined it was that good from the snippets I heard on YT ), I think we are on the road for a -very- strong PG album.

One of his best ?

There are still so many good songs to come: Love can heal, Live and let live, And Still, this is home .

I'm so grateful for this whole I/O experience.

OK, I think this is the one that hits me most for the moment…

I love it !.

Beautiful melody, spars arrangement, some silence, great lyrics. The ghost of Leonard Cohen is not far.