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La nascita "I", la crescita "II", l'affermazione "III", la transizione "IV", la polarizzazione multilaterale "Birdy-Passion-Long Walk Home", l'intensità espressiva soggettiva "Plays Live-Secret World Live", l'evoluzione "So", la navigazione di "Us" per confluire in "Ovo" e completare un ciclo vitale in "Up".
Uomo onnivoro che non conosce la perpetua routine e assiduo anticonformista, sperimenta per elevarsi e distinguersi. Questo Album fu volutamente fatto uscire il 21 settembre, ultimo plenilunio d'estate, dove c'è il silenzio, nella notte cupa di uno sconfinato universo sopra le nostre terre e dove c'è rumore e umidità, nelle sconfinate terre sotto in nostri piedi, luna e acqua costituiscono due elementi fondamentali per Gabriel, infatti crea la Real World in un bosco aperto alla visione stellare e appresso a un fiumiciattolo da favola, ed essendo un grande sostenitore del rapporto tra suono e materia, applica le sperimentazioni tecnologiche che portano alla realizzazione di nuovi suoni, ne fa uso già in partenza nella creazione della copertina dove il suo viso ingrandito e sfuocato si riflette in un primo piano di piccole gocce d'acqua che cadono e vanno a posarsi sul suo palmo in modo delicato e materno, ebbene queste gocce sono state create dalla fuoriuscita di acqua corrente da un piccolo tubo che, applicato ad un amplificatore, fa sì che l'onda sonora trasforma l'acqua che scorre nel tubo, in piccole gocce singole e questa scomposizione di flusso continuo, Gabriel lo associa al nostro percorso vitale.
"Darkness" l'apertura è imponente e comunicativa come un battito cardiaco di una vita in arrivo accompagnata da intervalli silenziosi e pensierosi e all'improvviso lo strillo traumatico per il passaggio dal grembo materno all'impatto con l'esterno e la fine della traccia dove il battito si affievolisce fino a morire, una massima di vita, un percorso interrogativo tra la natività e la mortalità - "Growing Up" violoncello ed elettronica e le prime paure, l'angoscia di non saper crescere e convivere con il mondo esterno, esplorazione dell'individualità, mutazione genetica, stazionamento di equilibrio per l'antinomia - "Sky Blue" pomposo e vellutato, il cielo blu, aggraziato da gospel dei Blind Boys Of Alabama che rincorrono voce e chitarra (rielaborata nel soundtrack di "Rabbit-Proof Fence") - "No Way Out" maturo, intenso e malinconico dove la Signora Morte incide dolore irreversibile e viene accompagnata da organo, piano e voce, imploranti - "I Grieve" traccia che mette in evidenza ancora la sofferenza per la perdita di una persona amata e la capacità di lottare per aiutare se stessi a poter continuare a superare e vivere anche nel dolore intrinseco (scheletricamente presente nel soundtrack di "City Of Angels") - "The Barry Williams Show" intervallo di banalità quotidiana fra frastuoni e consumismo cinico più totale, tutto in ambito elettronico - "My Head Sounds Like That" pianoforte e percussioni melodiche spezzate da intrusioni "heavy" e concluso in fluttuabilità, ancora alla ricerca di se stesso attraverso il suono - "More Than This" adorabile nonché inarrivabile traccia, un percorso introspettivo, analitico, un gioco a susseguirsi tra voci pianoforte e chitarra... molto, molto di più di questo c'è, esiste qualcos'altro, quando tutto ciò che avevi, non c'è più... - "Signal To Noise" un pensiero per la mortalità e la compassione umana, la straordinaria voce dello scomparso Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, il crescendo degli archi e l'esplosione sonora all'unisono, la rendono unica - "The Drop" rapporto stretto tra pianoforte e voce e... quante volte ci è capitato d'incantarci a guardare in cielo quelle montagne di panna montata che si trasformano in figure bizzarre? Ma poi che cosa c'è oltre le nuvole bianche...
E qualcuno ha detto il giusto, cioè che la musica è troppo necessaria per Gabriel (come per molti di noi), per essere trattata come una qualunque semenza transgenica, giova ed è gaudio eterno che plasma l'anima, mentre ci si accinge quotidianamente a combatte la paura che rende interessante la dimensione umana, ogni volta che l'affronti e la superi, sprigioni una grande quantità di energia atomica.
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01 Darkness (06:49)
i'm scared of swimming in the sea
dark shapes moving under me
every fear i swallow makes me small
inconsequential things occur
alarms are triggered
memories stir
it's not the way it has to be
i'm afraid of what i do not know
i hate being undermined
i'm afraid i can be devil man
and i'm scared to be divine
don't mess with me my fuse is short
beneath this skin these fragments caught
when i allow it to be
there's no control over me
i have my fears
but they do not have me
walking through the undergrowth, to the house in the woods
the deeper i go, the darker it gets
i peer through the window
knock at the door
and the monster i was
so afraid of
lies curled up on the floor
is curled up on the floor just like a baby boy
i cry until i laugh
i'm afraid of being mothered
with my balls shut in the pen
i'm afraid of loving women
and i'm scared of loving men
flashbacks coming in every night
don't tell me everything’s alright
when i allow it to be
it has no control over me
i own my fear
so it doesn’t own me
walking through the undergrowth, to the house in the woods
the deeper i go, the darker it gets
i peer through the window
knock at the door
and the monster i was
so afraid of
lies curled up on the floor
is curled up on the floor just like a baby boy
i cry until i laugh
Drums: Manu Katche, Dave Power
Percussion: Mahut Dominique, Ged Lynch, Richard Chappell
Bass: Tony Levin
Guitars: David Rhodes
The London Session Orchestra: Strings
String Arrangement: Peter Gabriel, Will Gregory
Orchestration: Nick Ingham
Programming: Richard Chappell
Additional Programming: Alex Swift
Bosendorfer, Mutator, Keys, JamMan, MPC Groove: Peter Gabriel
02 Growing Up (07:48)
folded in your fleshy purse
i am floating once again
while the muted sounds are pumping rhythm
all the walls close in on me
pressure's building wave on wave
till the water breaks - and outside i go, oh
one dot, that's on or off, defines what is and what is not, one dot
two dot, a pair of eyes, a voice, a touch, complete surprise, two dot
growing up, growing up,
looking for a place to live
growing up, growing up,
gooking for a place to live
growing up, growing up,
looking for a place to live
my ghost likes to travel so far in the unknown
my ghost likes to travel so deep into your space
three dot, a trinity, a way to map the universe,
three dot
four dot, is what will make a square, a bed to build on, it's all there,
four dot
my ghost likes to travel so far in the unknown
my ghost likes to travel so deep into your space
all the slow clouds pass us by
make the Empire State look high
as you take me in your sea-stained sweetness
it spills, it tingles and it stings
all the pleasure that it brings
till the door has let the outside inside here
well on the floor there's a long wooden table
on the table there's an open book
on the page there's a detailed drawing
and on the drawing is the name i took
my ghost likes to travel so far in the unknown
my ghost likes to travel so deep into your space
growing up, growing up,
looking for a place to live
growing up, growing up,
looking for a place to live
growing up, growing up,
looking for a place to live
growing up, growing up,
looking for a place to live
my ghost likes to travel
my ghost likes to travel
moving inside of your space
my ghost likes to travel
my ghost likes to travel
moving inside of your space
my ghost likes to travel
moving inside
my ghost likes to travel
moving Inside of your space
my ghost likes to travel
moving inside
my ghost likes to travel
moving inside of your space
the breathing stops, i don't know when
in transition once again
such a struggle getting through these changes
and it all seems so absurd
to be flying like a bird
when i do not feel i've really landed here.
Drums: Ged Lynch, Manu Katche
Percussion: Ged Lynch
Guitars: David Rhodes
Backing Vocals: AD Chivers, David Rhodes
Tape Scratching: Tchad Blake
Programming: Richard Chappell
Additional Programming: Pete Davis, Alex Swift
Organ, Sample Keys, Bass Keys, JamMan and MPC Groove: Peter Gabriel
Additional Production by Steve Osborne
03 Sky Blue (06:37)
lost my time lost my place in
sky blue
those two blue eyes light your face in
sky blue
i know how to fly, i know how to drown in
sky blue
warm wind blowing over the earth
sky blue
i sing through the land, the land sings through me
sky blue
reaching into the deepest shade of
sky blue
sky blue so tired of all this travelling
so many miles away from home
i keep moving to be stable
free to wander, free to roam
train pulled out said my goodbyes
sky blue
back on the road alone with the sky
sky blue
there's a presence here no one denies
sky blue
sky blue so tired of all this travelling
so many miles away from home
i keep moving to be stable
free to wander, free to roam
i can hear the same voice calling
crying out, from my heart
and that cry, what a cry
what a cry, it's going to be
if i can stop to let it out, oh.
Drums: Manu Katche
Percussion: Ged Lynch, Daniel Lanois
Bass: Tony Levin
Guitars: David Rhodes, Daniel Lanois, Peter Green
Hammond: David Sancious
Additional Vocals: The Blind Boys Of Alabama
Programming: Richard Chappell
Additional Prgramming: Alex Swift
Backing Vocals: David Rhodes, Melanie Gabriel
Firefly Keys, Bosendorfer, Bass Pulse, MPC Groove: Peter Gabriel
Samples taken from original track Produced by Daniel Lanois and Engineered by
David Bottrill
05 I Grieve (07:24)
It was only one hour ago
It was all so different then
Nothing yet has really sunk in
Looks like it always did
This flesh and bone
Is just the way that you were tied in
Now there's no one home
I grieve for you
And you leave me
It's so hard to move on
Still loving what's gone
And still life carries on
Carries on and on, and on, and on
The news that truly shocks
Is the empty, empty page
While the final rattle rocks
Its empty, empty cage
And I can't handle this
I grieve for you
You leave me
Let it out and move on
Missing what's gone
They say life carries on
They say life carries on, and on, and on
Life carries on in the people I meet
In everyone that's out on the street
In all the dogs and cats
In the flies and rats
In the rot and the rust
In the ashes and the dust
Life carries on and on, and on, and on
Life carries on and on, and on
It's just the car that we ride in
A home we reside in
The face that we hide in
The way we are tied in
And life carries on and on, and on, and on
Life carries on and on and on
Did I dream this belief
Or did I believe this dream
Now I can find relief
I grieve
07 The Drop (02:58)
moving down the fuselage
toward the open door
catch you looking down outside
to see what lies ahead
one by one
you watch them fall
fall through cloud
one by one
you watch them fall
no idea where they're going
but down
where they've gone
where they've gone
watching as the sun goes down
i sit inside this plane
notice how the city lights
are like the nerves inside the brain
one by one
they're going out
you watch them dim
one by one
you watch them fall
and wonder where they're falling to
Bosendorfer: Peter Gabriel
Programming: Richard Chappell
Mixed: Richard Chappell
09 My Head Sounds Like That (06:26)
the metal jangles as the key turns
unlock the door, wipe my feet clean
oh my head sounds like that
the oil is spitting in the saucepan
i squeeze the sponge and let the cat out
oh my head sounds like that
oh my head
oh oh oh
oh oh oh
the water's dripping in the hallway
the guy next door, he knocks his wall down
oh my head sounds like that
the knife it scrapes across the burnt brown toast
the freight train rumbles past my window
oh my head sounds like that
oh my head
oh oh oh
oh oh oh
oh oh oh
around the axis we all spin
to determine what's left out and what's left in
what's left out and what's left in
what's left out and what's left in
who's left out and who's left in
who's left in
the moments come and go like water
i try to hold them but they're fading
oh my head sounds like that
oh my head
oh oh oh
Drums: Manu Katche
Percussion: Assane Thiam, Ged Lynch, Mahut Dominique, Hossam Ramzy
Guitars: David Rhodes
Bass: Tony Levin
Brass: The Black Dyke Mills Band
Brass Arrangement: Peter Gabriel, Ed Shearmur, Bob Ezrin
Loop Manipulation: Richard Chappell
Programming: Richard Chappell
Piano, Mellotron: Peter Gabriel
11 Signal to Noise (07:30)
You know the way that things go
When what you fight for starts to fall
And in that fuzzy picture
The writing stands out on the wall
So clearly on the wall
[Wailing]
Send out the signals, deep and loud
And in this place can you reassure me
With a touch, a smile -
While the cradle's burning
All the while the world is turning to noise
Oh, the more that it's surrounding us
The more that it destroys
Turn up the signal - wipe out the noise!
Send out the signals, deep and loud
Man, I'm losing sound and sight
Of all those who can tell me wrong from right
When all things beautiful and bright sink in the night
Yet there's still there's something in my heart
That can find a way to make a start
To turn up the signal - wipe out the noise!
You know that's it
Receive and transmit
Signal to noise.
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Altre recensioni
Di Mr_Iko
Up è un prodotto difficile, è musica matura di un artista maturo.
Rimarrete affascinati dalla sobria eleganza di Peter, dalla sua lucida innovazione sonora.
Di Lesto BANG
Un disco da una gestazione di oltre 10 anni (!), un lavoro notturno, a volte anche plumbeo, nato col tentativo di convogliare un esistenzialismo introverso in una forma-canzone formalmente ineccepibile.
Per quel che mi occorre mi serve musica più merdosa e questo, tutto sommato, non è così osceno come mi aspettavo: palloso sì ma osceno sarebbe ingiusto!
