Peter Gabriel worked on his latest album to be named O/I for 21 years, interspersed with several worldwide tours and numerous other activities. When the album was released in December 2023, most of the songs had already been released as singles during the year:‘ Panopticom‘(++), ‘The ...
Elvis Presley made his first public appearance as a singer on this day. It did not go well: he came fifth in a local talent show. But he was only ten
the vinyl era, sequencing and arrangements, consuming art as it was intended, Negativland’s approach toward new material, sequencing, finishing work, Our Favorite Things DVD & Tim Maloney, the traps of being an artist, Peter Gabriel, It’s All In Your Head, Pastor Dick, Richard Lyons, ...
“The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms)” Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm (1988) There was high pedigree in the synth-pop sheen of Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm, Joni Mitchell’s third album with producer, bassist, and then-husband Larry Klein. Recorded in part at Peter Gabriel’s stud...
Rumbling and seething bleak bassline, backed by tight drums, ominously pulses unremittingly throughout, penetrated by jittery piercing guitar chords that supremely whine, rip, radiate and collide, achingly echoing murky, angry, equally fragile and powerful, female vocals weighted by deep hopeless fear...
He talked about how Beethoven demanded an intensity of singing that, if one did not employ good technique, could literally tear one’s vocal chords. To avoid this he talked about how one must project more from one’s forehead than from one’s chest, and he carefully walked us through the...
They would change chords and sections at randomly determined click numbers. Sometimes, the changes would be even more subtle than that—alterations in texture could be made by simply opening and closing the filters on the various synthesizers that provided the bulk of the sounds on the pieces. ...
dance styles inspired a generation of African musicians. With a new band, Viva La Musica, Wemba moved to Paris in the 1980s and helped popularize Congolese music beyond Africa. He also toured in the 1990s with British rock star Peter Gabriel and appeared on his “Secret World Live” album...
Add references to the turn-of-18th-Century Protestant children’s prayer “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep,” the Southern folk lullaby “Hush Little Baby,” and Peter Pan’s (if not Michael Jackson’s) Neverland, warn of “the beast under your bed, in your closet, in your head” (for...
Palo Alto’s the Donnas do. When these four girls start a-rockin’, don’t go a-knockin’ their blend of Ramones-esque 1-2-3-4 punk and swaggering, Crue-style metal. Their slickly revved-up odes to sex, drinking and power chords may be aggressively single-minded, but there’s no ...