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@itspetergabriel.bsky.social“I think music is a cathartic process for a lot of us. When I'm singing at the end 'I see you coming through' that is a cathartic moment. It suggests there is a reason to be hopeful." - pg
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@itspetergabriel.bsky.social"I know it's a long journey and we're nearly getting towards the end of it. There's going to be 13 tracks on this album as against 12 on the last. Thank you for being interested, long may you stay that way." -pg
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@itspetergabriel.bsky.social"Face the Wall, looking directly in the face of death. A nice cheerful subject.” - pg
The full moon video for Face the Wall is available to watch on YouTube now.
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@itspetergabriel.bsky.socialIncludes art by Nadav Kander, Francis Alÿs, Shirin Neshat, Tomás Saraceno, Tadashi Kawamata, Cortical Labs
@itspetergabriel.bsky.social"This record has been more of a marathon than a sprint - it’s the longest album I have ever put out with 13 tracks that complete the i/o / o\i 25 track joint project." - pg
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@itspetergabriel.bsky.socialPeter's new 13-track album o\i will be yours on November 27th.
o\i is available as two double LPs: one for the Bright-Side mixes and one for the Dark-Side mixes, as well as four disc CD including both mixes and a hard cover CD book.
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@itspetergabriel.bsky.socialA nice, cheerful subject.
The lyric is partly about getting older, facing illness, and it's looking death in the face, which I think we don't do enough of." - pg
The cover art is called ‘The Nest. Amos Rex’ by Tadashi Kawamata. Photographed by Mika Huisman.
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@itspetergabriel.bsky.socialThe Harvest full moon sees the release of Face the Wall. "After last month, where we were ‘looking for the happy’, we can just follow that line all the way through and come to Face the Wall, which is looking directly in the face of death.
@itspetergabriel.bsky.socialPeter photographed by Arnold Newman at Real World Studios in 2002. 📸
@itspetergabriel.bsky.socialso maybe there is some relationship there but, I don’t think there is so much relationship in the music itself. I’ve always found it harder to write happy music than sad music." - pg 'UP' was released today in 2002.
@itspetergabriel.bsky.social"‘UP’ is a positive word and I think if I listen to the music now there are some pretty miserable songs there so I don’t know if it fits that well but I’ve sort of grown with it and I think personally I’m in a good place at the moment and probably more up than the previous couple of albums
@itspetergabriel.bsky.socialKiss That Frog was released this week in 1993 as the fourth single from 'US'. The music video was directed by Brett Leonard and won an MTV Video Music Award in 1994 for Best Visual Effects. Brett Leonard also directed Virtuosity, which featured Peter's track 'Party Man'.
@itspetergabriel.bsky.socialShock The Monkey was released #onthisday in 1982 as the first single from Peter's fourth album, performed at Sanremo Music Festival in 1983.
"Most people saw that as a sort of animal rights song, but it wasn’t actually, it was a song about jealousy." - pg
@itspetergabriel.bsky.socialThe artwork for Looking for the Happy is from artist, Tishan Hsu.
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@itspetergabriel.bsky.social"When we see these images, we're reacting spontaneously to something that feels right… [and] it's great when you start researching you see all these other connections that do make it feel part of a whole.” - pg
@itspetergabriel.bsky.socialbut there's this mix and technological reference, and in the way that the song was talking about trying to explore consciousness, technology and nature, I think he does that in some of his own work." - pg
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@itspetergabriel.bsky.social"There's a wonderful piece of art that goes with the song this month by an artist based in amercia, Tishan Hsu. I've only recently come across his work and I was blown away. I thought it had a sort of childlike simpicity in one sense,
@itspetergabriel.bsky.social“Digging In The Dirt was looking at the darker side of myself. I was also reading a book about anger expressed in different ways. That was allowing me to get into different subject-matter.” - pg Digging in the Dirt was the first single from 'US', released today in 1992.
@itspetergabriel.bsky.social“The better musicians you work with, the less you have to say to them and the more you want them just to do their thing and be themselves." - pg
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@itspetergabriel.bsky.social"The groove is so important to me. If I don't feel it in my body then it doesn't interest me very often. Some lovely playing all over this song and Manu particularly does some great stuff.“
