i/o / Peter Gabriel.
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MusicPublisher number: 080137 | Real World ProductionsPGCD21 | Real World Productions | (container)884108015773 | Real World Productions | (Bright side CD)884108015780 | Real World Productions | (Dark side CD)Publisher: [Box, Wiltshire] : Real World Productions, [2023]Copyright date: ℗&©2023Description: 2 audio discs ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - performed music
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Dr. James Carlson Library | CD | New | POP/ROCK Gabriel, Peter | Checked out | 06/07/2024 | 33111010012652 | |||
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Main Library | CD | New | POP/ROCK Gabriel, Peter | Available | 33111010011522 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Peter Gabriel hid I/O, his first album in 21 years, in plain sight. Over the course of 2023, he released every one of its 12 songs as a single, each in two separate mixes (one "Bright," one "Dark"), and then toured the record -- all before its December release. A steady drip of singles didn't build anticipation for I/O -- many of the tracks didn't attract much chatter -- so much as get his audience accustomed to listening to new Peter Gabriel music again, allowing them to focus on a song at a time instead of immediately immersing themselves in an album that has its own intricate clockwork. Gabriel took his time crafting I/O, so listening to it slowly and steadily lets the record unfold and lets the distance between the decades narrow. In many ways, I/O picks up where Up ended, sounding a bit like a relic from the height of the CD era when albums were crafted as a long, continuous experience showcasing the outer limits of high-end audio. It also follows a recognizable template, balancing its innate moodiness with a few sprightly numbers that relieve the tension -- a blueprint that's been in place since So. The familiar approach helps illuminate how I/O does mark an emotional progression, finding Gabriel curiously optimistic as he searches for new beginnings, discovering glimmers of hope within the darkness. This shift isn't merely evident in the "Bright Side" mix, either. There's an inherent openness to the songs Gabriel completed for I/O, a spirit evident in such titles as "Road to Joy," "Love Can Heal," "This Is Home," and "Live and Let Live." Some of these songs surge, some simmer, but they all return to an idea essayed on the title track: "stuff coming out, stuff going in/I'm just a part of everything," a worldview that's intimate and all-encompassing. What makes I/O unique, even special, is that the process of searching isn't central to the finished product. There's no restlessness here, only acceptance, a quality that gives I/O a quiet power that can't help but build over time. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Title from disc label.
Peter Gabriel, vocals, synthesizers, piano, rhythm programming, percussion, manipulated charango ; with additional musicians ; Soweto Gospel Choir ; Orphei drängar ; Cecilia Rydinger, choir conductor ; New Blood Orchestra ; John Metcalfe, conductor.
Recorded Real World Studios, Bath ; The Beehive, London ; British Grove, London ; High Seas Studios, South Africa ; Alfvénsalen, Uppsala, Sweden ; The Copper House, London ; Rexall Place, Edmonton, Canada ; ArteSuono Studio, Cavalicco (UD), Italy.
Words and music by Peter Gabriel.
[Disc 1], Bright-side mix. Panopticom ; The court ; Playing for time ; i/o ; Four kinds of horses ; Road to joy ; So much ; Olive tree ; Love can heal ; This is home ; And still ; Live and let live -- [Disc 2], Dark-side mix. Panopticom ; The court ; Playing for time ; i/o ; Four kinds of horses ; Road to joy ; So much ; Olive tree ; Love can heal ; This is home ; And still ; Live and let live.
More than 20 years in the making, this December finally sees the release of i/o, Peter Gabriel's first album of new material since 2002's Up. During 2023, Peter has been releasing a new song from the album on the occasion of every full moon. Being revealed roughly every four weeks, each track has been allowed to find its own time and space, to enjoy its own orbit. Now it's time to stand back and admire the final, completed creation. And what a creation. Twelve tracks of grace, gravity and great beauty that provide welcome confirmation of not only Peter's ongoing ability to write stop-you-in-your-tracks songs but also of that thrilling voice, still perfectly, delightfully intact. Throughout the album the intelligent and thoughtful, often thought-provoking, songs tackle life and the universe.