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'New Blood' On the road again...

Peter Gabriel — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:37:32 +0000

The wagons are being loaded and we're off to the first show at the Avenches amphitheater in Switzerland via a quick production rehearsal in London.

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Could this be a new New Blood poster?

Peter Gabriel — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:44:33 +0000

Album Art

Peter Gabriel — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:54:04 +0000

"I've always loved artwork and album art. I think it's been a huge part of what people identify and feel about the music and the records" said Peter Gabriel "I used to love gatefold sleeves... when you would sit with a new record and open it up it was just a precious moment. Now we've gone into this digital world a lot of that has been lost. We've being looking at ways of getting quality prints of the artwork for a long time and I'm happy now it has happened."

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Peter's August Full Moon Update

Peter Gabriel — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:14:31 +0000

Peter beams-in his second summer update from Sardinia and introduces a clip of Rhythm Of The Heat from the recent New Blood orchestral recordings at Air studio.

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August studios

Peter Gabriel — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:21:57 +0000

Who would would have imagined that the sounds of Syriana could be heard drifting out of those august buildings on such a lovely day.

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Download 'Here Comes The Flood' from Peter Gabriel's Guitar Center Session

Peter Gabriel — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:36:55 +0000

Peter recorded a session at Guitar Center when he was in Los Angeles for the recent 'New Blood' show at The Hollywood Bowl.

'Here Comes The Flood' is now available as a free download from the session - No orchestra, no drums, no guitars, just Peter at the piano.

If you have access to Direct TV you can see the session in full on channel 101 and in 3D on n\3d on August 21st, 9pm ET/PT.

Download 'Here Comes The Flood' from the Guitar Center Session

Peter introduces 'Digging In The Dirt'

Peter Gabriel — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:29:16 +0000

Peter joins us from a hot and sunny Sardinia to give us an update on his month and introduce an excerpt of 'Digging In The Dirt' from the recent orchestral recoding sessions at Air Studios.

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Peter Gabriel Presents Songlines Award at WOMAD

Peter Gabriel — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Songlines magazine is delighted to announce that Peter Gabriel will be presenting Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara with their 2010 Songlines Music Award at WOMAD Charlton Park.

The presentation will take place at 7pm after their performance on the Siam tent on Saturday, July 24. Voted by Songlines readers and the general public, Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara have won the Cross-Cultural Collaboration category for their 2009 album release 'Tell No Lies' on Real World Records. The Songlines Music Awards were launched in 2008 to recognise outstanding talent in world music.

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Peter's June Full Moon update

Peter Gabriel — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:00:00 +0000

Peter takes a moment out from his vocal recording session to give us a quick update on the 'New Blood' recordings, point the uniniatated in the direction of David Byrnes's fantastic cover of 'I Don't Remember' and introduce a little excerpt of 'Blood Of Eden' from the orchestral sessions at Air.

Listening Wind and I Don't Remember

Peter Gabriel — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Today sees the sixth of the double a-side reciprocal releases on iTunes in the 'Scratch My Back' and 'I'll Scratch Yours' series. David Byrne has recorded a fantastic version of 'I Don't Remember' in return of Peter's version of 'Listening Wind'.

Peter, Bob Ezrin and John Metcalfe talk about the recording of 'Listening Wind' in our video. Unfortunatly we didn't manage to get David Byrne in-front of a camera, although he did send us some thoughts:

Why did you choose to cover Don't Remember?

"I didn't. Peter suggested it. I was aiming for something more obscure, or a lesser known song that I could make unrecognizable or radically rework. That song is a favorite I'm sure, so a lot of fans will be somewhat attached to the original arrangement. But I did have an angle, an approach, and I guess that intrigued Peter."

How did you approach the cover - musically, technically etc etc?

"I realized that the tempo, the groove and the catchy chorus might be perfect for an uplifting clubby treatment- which would give a nice spin on the lyrics. In the original the vibe is quite dark, paranoid even....I thought the falsetto vocal and club groove would make the alienation and amnesia subject pleasant- almost desirable. I thought my version might imply a willing sublime surrender to memory loss."

Do you have any thoughts or response to Peter Gabriel's cover of Listening Wind?

"It's lovely- it brings out the incantation in the song. What a choice at this time politically though! One could get waterboarded for singing that song in the wrong place!"

all the best

David
Midtown

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Server downtime

Peter Gabriel — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Apologies for the loss of service, we had a few gremlins in the servers which took us off the air for a few hours. We've had a team of elf fumigators at work and so as the air clears we are gradualy returning to normal service.

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Peter Gabriel — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:53:59 +0000

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WOMAD Charlton Park honours Charlie Gillett

Peter Gabriel — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:46:47 +0000

The "Saddlespan Stage" at WOMAD Charlton Park is to be renamed 'The Charlie Gillett Stage' in memory of the broadcasting legend.

"Charlie Gillett was such a benign godfather to so many artists who have fallen under the name of world music.

"Bumping into Charlie was always one of my regular delights at Womad. There are many artists around the world who owe a good slice of their income to Charlie's enthusiasms.

"His generous and good nature, fired by his passion, was a beacon of light in the music world and a rare and wonderful example to all of us involved." Peter Gabriel

The Charlie Gillett Stage will be opened by eight-piece band Zoo For You who had been brought to the attention of festival organisers by the presenter.

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Solsbury Hill and a little Darkness

Peter Gabriel — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:22:16 +0000

A mix of moods are in store this afternoon.

At the moment we're recording a little impromptu percussion over lunch- 'give us metal beaters on the vibes'

'Downside Up' at Air

Peter Gabriel — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:16:28 +0000

We've started the day with 'Downside Up' - truly amazing to be in he room with the orchestra playing these arrangements.

Red Rain at Air Studios

Peter Gabriel — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:36:42 +0000

We're back in the studio this morning with the 'New Blood' orchestra. Red Rain is the soundtrack to the morning session.

'Intruder' complete, on to 'Father Son'

Peter Gabriel — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:20:11 +0000

Intruder - Air day 3

Peter Gabriel — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:13:44 +0000

We are about to start day three as we ended yesterday - 'Intruder' is all around us.

Recording at Air

Peter Gabriel — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:08:34 +0000

Day two of our 'New Blood' recording sessions at Air.

Digging In The Dirt

Peter Gabriel — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:17:16 +0000

The 'New Blood' orchestra are Digging In The Dirt this morning.