Peter Gabriel – New Blood
By Stuart Anderson
Although seen recently more as a music industry innovator rather than as an artist and performer, New Blood finds Peter Gabriel following in the footsteps of fellow ’80s eccentric and collaborator Kate Bush and revisiting, recalibrating and re-releasing highlights from his considerable back catalogue.
However, rather than merely patching up production deficiencies, unearthing previously unreleased songs or reinterpreting tracks that never really satisfied, Gabriel has rerecorded a sizeable chunk of material without guitars or drums but with a full orchestra. Conceptually then, New Blood is not a record seeking to rewrite history or redress lost opportunities; rather it signifies Gabriel’s exploration of the sound palette that an exclusively orchestral arrangement affords. In his own words, Gabriel is excited to “work with the dynamics and extremes…still and stark at one point, fat, fleshy and emotional at another”. … Continue Reading











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