News
20-08-2010
Peter's August Full Moon Update
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.
18-08-2010
August studios
Who would would have imagined that the sounds of Syriana could be heard drifting out of those august buildings on such a lovely day.
13-08-2010
Download 'Here Comes The Flood' from Peter Gabriel's Guitar Center Session
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.
26-07-2010
Peter introduces 'Digging In The Dirt'
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.
23-07-2010
Peter Gabriel Presents Songlines Award at WOMAD
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.
26-06-2010
Peter's June Full Moon update
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.
26-06-2010
Listening Wind and I Don't Remember
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
23-06-2010
Server downtime
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.
