ⓦ 363 Musik-Talk: Das aktuelle Album i/o von Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel ist ein Interpret, der es sich nie leicht gemacht hat, der immer fordernd war und der auch immer für Überraschungen gut ist.
Ralle und ich mögen Peter Gabriel und seine Musik. Heute tauchen wir tief in sein neues Werk, auf dass wir über 20 Jahren warten mussten.
Das Album mit den 12 Songs gibt es in einer Bright- und einer Dark-Side-Version. Die Unterschiede in den beiden Mixen derselben Songs zu entdecken, ist ein Spiel für die Nerds in der Fangemeinde.
Kapitelmarken zum Podcast
(00:00) Grüße an meinen Kumpel Volker
(03:45) Diskografie seit 1977
(08:00) Von Genesis zu Peter Gabriel
(13:00) Lieblingslieder von Genesis
(17:30) Künstlerische Vielfalt bei Peter Gabriel
(22:00) i/o
(26:00) Panopticom
(30:30) The Court
(33:45) Playing for Time
(36:00) Four Kinds of Horses
(38:00) Road to Joy
(41:00) So Much
(48:00) Olive Tree
(54:00) Love Can Heal
(1:00:00) This Is Home
(1:01:30) And Still
(1:08:00) Live and Let Live
(1:14:00) Coverart
(1:16:00) Outtakes: Was machen hier wir eigentlich?
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Ein umfang- und facettenreiches Gesamtkunstwerk
Peter Gabriel ist ein Interpret, der es sich nie leicht gemacht hat, der immer fordernd war und der auch immer für Überraschungen gut war. So auch bei i/o, das auch dadurch frisch und zeitgemäß wirkt, weil es sich von Veröffentlichungs-Dogmen gelöst hat, die mittlerweile einfach nicht mehr zwangsläufig genutzt werden müssen. Der Weg über Streaming und Co hat sicherlich nicht nur Vorteile, aber er bietet Freiheiten, die genutzt werden können. Gabriel wäre nicht Gabriel, wenn er sie ignorieren und nur auf das Format der aussterbenden CD schauen würde.
Die Pop-Musik hat Gabriel mit i/o nicht neu erfunden. Es gibt neue Mischformen und neue Sounds, aber mehr ist von niemandem zu erwarten. Peter Gabriel bleibt sich selbst treu ohne sich dabei zu kopieren. Ob die Musik überzeugt oder nicht, entscheidet nur der eigene Geschmack. Gespielt, gesungen und produziert ist sie auf Weltklasseniveau und es ist deutlich zu spüren, dass sich jemand zu Songwriting und Texten eine Menge Gedanken gemacht hat.
Wenn man 73 Jahre alt und seit Ewigkeiten im Geschäft ist, wirken Songs wie Playing For Time und So Much auf jeden Fall authentisch. Ansonsten wird jeder Fan seine Highlights auf i/o selbst identifizieren - und auch selbst wissen, welche Stücke nicht in die persönlichen Best Of-Playlists gehören.
Fest steht aber, dass i/o zumindest sehr viele Formen von Zugängen über Stilistik, Mixe usw. ermöglicht. Ob man diese für sich nutzen kann, hängt zu einem gewissen Teil davon ab, wie flexibel man in Bezug auf die eigenen Gewohnheiten ist, und wie tief man in Musik eintauchen kann und will. Wer sich auf dieses Album einlässt und nicht gefangen ist in der Suche nach einem zweiten San Jacinto oder anderen vergleichbaren Klassikern, wird hier mit einem starken, für sich stehenden und frischen Album belohnt.
Quelle: https://www.genesis-fanclub.de/c-Peter-Gabriel-io-Album-Rezension-brightsided-Sicht-s1055.html
All the lyrics and artwork of the album i/o
Words and Music by Peter Gabriel
published by Real World Music Ltd / Sony Music Publishing
Panopticom
In the air the smoke cloud takes its form
All the phones take pictures while it’s warm
Panopticom, let’s find out what’s going on
Panopticom, let’s see where clues are leading
Panopticom, won’t you show us what’s going on
Panopticom, show how much is real
And we pour the medicine down
While we watch the world around us
We got witness on the ground
Taking in the evidence
And we reach across the globe
Got all the information flowing
You face the motherload
Tentacles around you
Around you
From above and deep below the ground
It was in Berlin that all the evidence was found
Look from the street and we look down from the skies
See through the barriers
We can see through all those lies
Panopticom, let’s find out what’s going on
Panopticom, let’s see where clues are leading
Panopticom, won’t you show us what’s going on
Panopticom, show how much is real
And we pour the medicine down
While we watch the world around us
We got witness on the ground
Taking in the evidence
And we reach across the globe
Got all the information flowing
You face the motherload
Tentacles around you
Around you
Around you
Around you
Around you
The Court
You put your hand up, you make your bid
You got your pictures all laid out on the grid
Dug in the garden in the softest ground
Buried everything that you never want found
And the court will rise
While the pillars all fall
We’ve got the healer and the birthday cake
We got the real thing and we’ve got the fake
We got the ladder, look there is the snake
How my body begins to ache
And the court will rise
While the pillars all fall
You got the money going up your nose
You got the data don’t control where it goes
What you have left, is getting down to the bone
Your only memory’s on your mobile phone
And the court will rise
While the pillars all fall
Out of this sentence, the ball and the claw
In all of these pronouncements I can make out the voice of the law
Out in the market all our lives are on sale
And the poles are drifting further apart, recovery cannot fail
Got contingency deals and they’re all in place
Got the bigshot barrister to plead my case
Got my baby throwing up on her chocolate milk
The black cap judge reaches for his silk
And the court will rise
While the pillars all fall
We lost the line between the good and the bad
We lost the line between the sane and the mad
Still draw the line across the writing pad
The line of conscience that we never have had
And the court will rise
While the pillars all fall
So many reaching for it
So many reaching out for it
You know that justice is blind
So many reaching for it
So many reaching out for it
You know that justice is blind
So many looking out for it
So many looking out for it
You know that justice is blind
Playing for Time
Far, far away
Out amongst the stars
There’s a planet spinning slowly
We call it ours
Any time, any day
Any moment that we bring to life
Will never fade away
Oh, all the moments come and go
While the memories ebb and flow
And play again, play again
Oh, there’s a hill that we must climb
Climb through all the mists of time
It’s all in here
What we’ve been through
Down, I’m getting it down
Sorting it out
So everything I care about
Is held in here
All of those I love, inside
Everybody’s playing for time
You and I still playing for time
There goes the sun
Back from where it came
The young move to the centre
The mum and dad the frame
Any space, any time
Any moment that we bring to life
Ridiculous, sublime
Oh, all the moments come and go
While the memories ebb and flow
And play again, play again
Oh, there’s a hill that we must climb
Climb through all these mists of time
It’s all in here
What we’ve been through
Down, I’m getting it down
Sorting it out so everything I care about
Is held in here
All of those I love, inside
The future shines a sunny day
Unpacked memories stored away
All the while the clock keeps ticking
You and I still playing for time
One by one the voices silenced
For they know that time will tell
It’s time that wears the crown
And time that rings the bell
All cards on the table
All hands are down
Everybody’s playing for time
Everyone’s still playing for time
Looking for a flicker in the face of the clock
Hidden in the mountain in the body of the rock
No-one seems to notice or to feel the aftershock
They’re all too busy playing for time
Everybody’s playing for time
You and I still playing for time
i/o
I’m just a part of everything
I stand on two legs and I learned to sing
It’s not what was said and it’s not what I heard
I walk with my dog and I whistle with the bird
Stuff coming out, stuff going in
I’m just a part of everything
Stuff coming out, stuff going in
I’m just a part of everything
So we think we really live apart
Cuz we got two legs a brain and a heart
We all belong to everything
To the octopus’ suckers and the buzzards’ wing
To the elephants’ trunk and the buzzing bees’ sting
Stuff coming out, stuff going in
I’m just a part of everything
I’m just a part of everything
i/o, i/o
I’m coming out, I’m going in
i/o, i/o
I’m just a part of everything
I learn like a baby, I learn like a seed
Spread out my tubers wherever I need
I find any way to attach and connect
And I run like water, no cause or effect
I got stuff coming out and stuff going in
I’m just a part of everything
Stuff coming out and stuff going in
I’m just a part of everything
When the panting is over and the warmth has run out
Love will be flowing, I have no doubt
With the vehicle in neutral and the ground to be faced
I’ll be all laid to rest in my proper place
Into the roots of an old oak tree
Where life can move freely in and out of me
I’ll have stuff coming out and stuff going in
I’m just a part of everything
i/o, i/o
I’m coming out, I’m going in
i/o, i/o
I’m just a part of everything
i/o, i/o
I’m coming out, I’m going in
i/o, i/o
I’m just a part of everything
Four Kinds of Horses
It all seems so simple
Remarkably clear
Like the darkest superhero
You will burst into our fear
They must have seen you looking
Watched everything you said
Knowing you could be a part of it
They fill your head – fill your head
Come all the nights (ohh)
Come all the days
So inaccessible in this land, this land beyond the brilliant haze
And here is all your money
There is the load
This is how you travel if you live to see the world explode
Four kinds of horses
Four kinds of men
Are you saying something different but you do it all again
Four kinds of horses
Four kinds of men
Ah you think you’re something different but you do it all again
Again and again
Again and again
Your mind is made up
So certain what is right
But when they audit everything
Will they see you were born so bright
Oh mother illusion
With your jacket of flames
Your face it is everywhere
Such a dark, dark shade of fame
Come all the nights (ooh)
Come all the days
So inaccessible in this land, this land beyond the brilliant haze
And here is all your money
There is the load
This is how you travel if you live to see the world explode
Four kinds of horses
Four kinds of men
Are you saying something different but you do it all again
Four kinds of horses
Four kinds of men
Ah you think you’re something different but you do it all again
Again and again
Again and again
We feel the vibration
We’re all holding it down
We feel the vibration
It’s coming out of the ground
We feel the vibration
We’re all holding it down
We feel the vibration
It’s coming out of the ground
Road to Joy
Sore eyes, swollen skies,
Look for anchors, look for ties
Sharp sounds swim around
Soak into the brittle ground
Been so many days been held inside this body
Been so many days and there’s nothing to do
Been so many days in the throbbing of the darkness
Been so many days I’ve been waiting for you
Back in the world
Waking up the road to joy
Love calls through the walls
Warms the earth wherever it falls
Lights form and call you down
Going in for another round
This is how it goes I’ve been listening to the voices
This is how it goes you were sure I was gone
This is how it goes in this state of meditation
This is how it goes I’ve been waiting for you
Back in the world
Waking up the road to joy
Back in the world
Walking down the road to joy
The engine stops and silence pours
Fills the holes and cracked stone floors
Young and old, girl and boy
Dance along the road to joy
Picture sharpens in your head
Opens up when it’s been read
All the things you strain to see
Can move on in and come to be
Show your eyes show your teeth
That’s the way to build belief
Touch my hair touch my knee
You can wake up every part of me
Get the blood to flow in every nook and cranny
Get the blood to flow from my head to my toes
Get the blood to flow flowing all around me
Get the blood to flow put the life in my soul
Back in the world
Walking down the road to joy
Just when you think it can’t get worse
The mind reveals the universe
Opens up a distant star
That gives you straight just who you are
I’m more a dog, you’re more a cat
Then we’re getting bored of that
Alive again a bird, a snake
Then we jump into the lake
So Much
So much unfinished business
All sticky with desire
Raking through the empty shells
Of all the rockets we fired
Set the navigation
For the earth all warm and wet
And as the longing drops away
The compass is reset
Ah, there’s so much to aim for
You can shoot at the sun
But all of it just comes and goes
There’s only so much can be done
Time slips in the mirror
As an old man I was born
But I’ve grown to be a baby
With a halo and a horn
Burn up like a lightning bolt
All gone within a flash
You look around to find a home
Where the asteroid will crash
Ah, there’s so much to live for
So much left to give
This edition is limited
There’s only so much can be done
The body stiffens tires and aches
In its wrinkled blotchy skin
With each decade more camouflage
For the wild-eyed child within
Now close your eyes for a moment
Look down and look above
All the warmth inside of you
Comes from those you love
Ah, there’s so much to live for
So much left to give
This edition is limited
There’s only so much can be done
So much to aim for
Shooting up at the sun
But it all comes and goes
There’s only so much can be done
So much can be done
Only so much can be done
Olive Tree
In the misty silvered night
My eyes fall to the ground
I can feel it come alive
In the seeds pushing out through the soil
New life weaves its way out through the coil
Nothing’s going to hold this movement down
I was apart from it, my head in the sky
With no ears to listen, no light reached my eye
There rose the fungi, still tied to its past
For the melting of the solid world the changes coming fast
And its Ho oh
I’ve got the water falling on me – it’s all waking me up
I’ve got the sunlight warming my back – warming up all my bones
I’ve got the cool breeze right on my skin
Bringing every cell to life, making all connections live
From one point to another and we’re all here just the same
Trying to make some sense of it, where I’m going now
And how it fits together in the bigger shape of things
And I slide into the waves, leaving land behind
It’s another world I’m entering now
There’s the shark pushing through the swaying weeds
Predator and prey sort out their needs
Nothing’s going to hold this pattern down
I was apart from it in a world of our own
We’d lost all connection to the place from which we’d grown
But here in this helmet I can read other minds
And scan all the thinking all the juice I can find
And its Ho oh
I’ve got the water falling on me – it’s all waking me up
I’ve got the sunlight warming my back warming up all my bones
I’ve got the cool breeze right on my skin
Bringing every cell to life making all connections live
From one point to another and we’re all here just the same
Trying to make some sense of it, where I’m going now
And how it fits together in the bigger shape of things
Water falls on me
It’s waking up the world
Water falls on us
Pouring from the head
Pouring from the head
Pouring from the head
Love Can Heal
Whatever mess you found yourself within
Regardless how you got there
When the edifice has slipped away and died
Left you standing there defenseless
Love can heal
Love can heal
Love can heal
Love can heal
There’s something moving out of you
Your body and your skin
Like mist comes from the water
You can sense it when the cold has clenched its claws
And alone you face what’s coming
For a moment
Raise my head
I can breathe the air
Out in the sunlight
In all the colours
Set against a bed of green
A bed of green
Love can heal
Love can heal
Love can heal
Love can heal
Love can heal
Love can heal
Give in to love
Give in to love
Give in to love
This Is Home
I looked into the deepest sky
Find what you’d shown me
Here beside the churning sea
A calm came over me
Cuz I know, this is home
Home is where I need to be
I know, you are my home
Running down these roads of glass
With no way to see through them
We struggle through the buzz and the grind
Of one thing I’m certain
I know, this is home
Home is where I need to be
I know, you are my home
More or less
When you strip the whole thing down
Let all the feelings flow
And we’re standing there in the garden
Watching the world roll out below
And we float on love
Like a river through the night
Where all the colours bleed to light
Looked as far as I could see
See what was showing
We’ve scattered like a bag of seeds
Wherever the wind was blowing
Whatever bothers you in the day or night
It’ll come and go
But then it’s you and I
We just keep moving on
Walk on down the road
When we make it hard
And when I left you scarred
It looks like all has gone
Then the love creeps through
From deep in me and you
Walking down the road
Going back home
Looking for answers but they’re hidden from view
There’s no way of knowing
And here I am holding you
There’s nowhere else I’m going
I know, this is home
And home is where I have to be
I know, this is my home
Home, ho-ome, this is my home
Home, ho-ome, you are my home
And Still
All gone away
All gone away
I place my head against your skin
As I did as a boy
And still your hands feel cold
Those hands that brushed my hair
I feel you everywhere
And I’ll carry you inside of me
In every place that I will be
And still the warm winds will blow
Still all the rivers flow
And still the green grass will grow
In every place I choose to go
I wander round the house in which we lived
Cupboards full of coats and hats
Your presence everywhere
And in every corner, memories form
You warmed us like the sun
And every morning you’d be there
Now you’re gone
You warmed me like the sun
In your belly
With your food
And your love of family and friends
The dogs and the horses too
In the life of the conversation
Connecting one and all
And your spirit would find its place, its home, its face in the music
Your eyes so young so old
And still your hands are cold
I feel you everywhere
And I’ll carry you inside of me
In every place that I can be
And still the warm winds will blow
Still all the rivers will flow
And still the green grass will grow
In every place I choose to go
I carry you inside of me
Live and Let Live
Just how much does it have to hurt
Before you let go the pain
And just how deep does it have to be
Before you yearn to be free again
Every word can lock you away
You can walk or you can choose to remain
But everyday can pass you by
While you are holding the key
This is how it turns
This is what we do
This is who we are
When we forgive, we can move on
Release all the shackles one by one
We belong to the burden
Til it’s gone
Just how long do you want to hate
With all that anger to burn
You dream of revenge and you dream of reply
You’d hope that someday we’d learn
Every time you think of that hurt
It spins around in your mind
With an eye for an eye again and again
Until the whole world is blind
This is how it turns
This is what we do
This is who we are
When we forgive, we can move on
Release all the shackles one by one
We belong to the burden
‘Till it’s gone
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Lay the burden down
I’m gonna lay the weapons down
Lay the burden down
And it’s William Blake who inks his sting
Drawing out Martin Luther King
Tutu and Madiba
Saying rainbows do exist
The voice of the elders coming through the mist
Lay the burden down
Lay the weapons down
Lay the burden down
Lay the weapons down
It takes courage to learn to forgive
To be brave enough to listen
To live and let live
It takes courage
To start to forgive
To be brave enough to listen
To live and let live
Let live
Let live
Let live
Let live and let live
Let live
It takes courage to learn to forgive
To be brave enough to listen
To live and let live
Let live
Live and let live
Let live
Live and let live
Live and let live
Live and let live
Live and let live
Let live
Peter Gabriel - die Solo-Jahre
Sendung: Urban Pop - Musiktalk mit Peter Urban | 02.03.2023 | 10:00 Uhr | von Peter Urban und Ocke Bandixen
79 Min | Verfügbar bis 01.03.2028
Peter Gabriel startete nach seinem Ausstieg bei Genesis Mitte der 70er Jahre eine beachtliche Solo-Karriere, die bis heute andauert. Hochkarätige Popsongs, verdichtet in Songstruktur und Sound, haben nicht nur durch seine markante Stimme einen unverwechselbaren Klang. Hits wie „Solsbury Hill“, „Sledgehammer”, “Don´t give up” oder “Digging in the dirt” sind Klassiker der Popmusikgeschichte.
Ab der zweiten Hälfte der 70er Jahre veröffentlichte er vier Alben, die jeweils nur seinen Namen als Titel tragen. Nach einer Phase der Orientierung schuf er seinen eigenen, dichten Sound aus Rhythmus, Gesang und zum Teil elektronisch gefärbten Klängen. An die Stelle von skurrilen Geschichten traten Beziehungslieder und einige politische Songs wie „Biko“, das vom Mord an dem südafrikanischen Anwalt Steven Biko erzählt, der gegen die Apartheid gekämpft hatte.
Peter Gabriel engagierte sich in der Folge stark für afrikanische und asiatische Musikerinnen und Musiker, startet das WOMAD-Festival, später kam noch ein eigenes Label dazu. Das Festival drohte finanziell zu einem Desaster zu werden, aber die alten Freunde von Genesis halfen aus mit einem einmaligen gemeinsamen Auftritt Anfang der 80er Jahre, um dieses abzuwenden.
Mit „So“ schuf Peter Gabriel in der zweiten Hälfte des Jahrzehnts ein überaus erfolgreiches Album, auch das Musikvideo von „Sledgehammer“ wurde zum meistgespielten auf MTV. Peter Gabriel wurde zu einem der großen Taktgeber der Popmusik in diesen Jahren.
Nach einzelnen Filmmusiken, für „Birdy“ und „The Last Temptation of Christ“, knüpfte Peter Gabriel in den folgenden Jahren mit „Us“ (1992) und „Up“ (2002) an seine Erfolge an. „Come talk to me“, „The Blood of eden“ und „The Barry Williams Show” wurden zu Hits. Mit seiner Band erspielte er sich einen glänzenden Ruf als Live-Künstler. Auch seine Tourneen mit „Scratch my Back“ und „New Blood” – live als “Live Blood”, mit Coverversionen und Orchesterarrangements seiner Lieder untermauerten diesen.
Peter Gabriel, inzwischen hochgeehrt, auch für sein politisches Engagement zum Beispiel für Amnesty International, hat für dieses Jahr – nach langer Pause – eine neue Tour und ein neues Album angekündigt, einzelne Songs sind auch schon veröffentlicht worden. Die künstlerische Reise des Peter Gabriel ist noch nicht vorbei.
Peter Gabriel 1: Car (1977): Moribund the Burgermeister, Solsbury Hill, Excuse me, Waiting for the big one, Here comes the flood (deutsche Version: Jetzt kommt die Flut)
Peter Gabriel 2: Scratch (1978): On the air, Mother of violence, Indigo, Home sweet home
Peter Gabriel 3: Melt (1980): Intruder, No self control, I don’t remember, Games without frontiers, Biko
Deutsche Version: Ein Deutsches Album (1980)
Peter Gabriel 4: Security (1982): Rhythm of the heat, San Jacinto, Shock the monkey, Lay your hands on me, Wallflower
Deutsche Version: Deutsches Album (1982)
So (1986): Red rain, Sledgehammer, Don’t give up, Mercy Street, Big Time, In your eyes
Passion (Music for the Last Temptation of Christ, 1989)
Us (1992): Come talk to me, Blood of Eden, Steam, Washing of the water, Digging the dirt
Secret World Live (1994)
Up (2002): Sky blue, No way out
Scratch My Back (2010): Heroes, Mirrorball, The power of the heart, The book of love
