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Peter Gabriel i/o (Bright-Side Mixes) 2LP

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Peter Gabriel's First Album of New Material Since 2002's Up!
Bright-Side Mixes on Double Vinyl LP!

TAS Rated 4/5 Music, 4/5 Sonics in the March 2024 Issue of The Absolute Sound!

2025 Grammy® Award Nominee:
• Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: i/o

More than 20 years in the making, December 2023 finally sees the release of i/o, Peter Gabriel's first album of new material since 2002's Up.

During 2023, Peter has been releasing a new song from the album on the occasion of every full moon. Being revealed roughly every four weeks, each track has been allowed to find its own time and space, to enjoy its own orbit. "It's a little like getting a Lego piece each month," Peter explains. Now it's time to stand back and admire the final, completed creation.

12 tracks of grace, gravity and great beauty that provide welcome confirmation of not only Peter's ongoing ability to write stop-you-in-your-tracks songs but also of that thrilling voice, still perfectly, delightfully intact. Throughout the album the intelligent and thoughtful - often thought-provoking - songs tackle life and the universe. Our connection to the world around us - "I'm just a part of everything," Peter sings on title track "i/o" - is a recurring motif, but so too the passing of time, mortality and grief, alongside such themes as injustice, surveillance and the roots of terrorism. While reflective, the mood is never despondent; i/o is musically adventurous, often joyous and ultimately full of hope.

All 12 tracks are subject to two stereo mixes: the Bright-Side Mixes, handled by Mark 'Spike' Stent, and the Dark-Side Mixes, as reshaped by Tchad Blake. "We have two of the greatest mixers in the world in Tchad and Spike and they definitely bring different characters to the songs. Tchad is very much a sculptor building a journey with sound and drama, Spike loves sound and assembling these pictures, so he's more of a painter." Peter has also invited a range of visual artists to contribute a piece of art to accompany each track. The dozen artists make an exceedingly impressive team of collaborators: Ai Weiwei, Nick Cave, Olafur Eliasson, Henry Hudson, Annette Messager, Antony Micallef, David Moreno, Cornelia Parker, Megan Rooney, Tim Shaw, David Spriggs and Barthélémy Toguo. Having handpicked the artists, Peter recognizes that "[t]hey have the same obsessive attention to their visual work that we musicians have in sound."

Both versions are included on the double-CD package, and are also available separately as double vinyl albums. A third version - the In-Side Mixes, in Dolby Atmos, comes courtesy of Hans-Martin Buff "doing a wonderful job generating these much more three-dimensional mixes" and is included in the three-disc set, including Blu-ray.

The album features contributions from guitarist David Rhodes, bassist Tony Levin and drummer Manu Katché as well as Brian Eno, Richard Russell, pianist Tom Cawley, trumpeters Josh Shpak and Paolo Fresu, cellist Linnea Olsson and keyboard player Don E. Peter's daughter Melanie contributes warm backing vocals, as does Ríoghnach Connolly of The Breath. Soweto Gospel Choir and Swedish all-male choir Oprhei Drängar lend harmonies and the New Blood Orchestra, led by John Metcalfe, both soothe and soar.

This 2LP is the Bright-Side Mixes version. Black vinyl, gatefold sleeve, 32-page booklet.

[i/o] follows a recognizable template, balancing its innate moodiness with a few sprightly numbers that relieve the tension - a blueprint that's been in place since So. The familiar approach helps illuminate how I/O does mark an emotional progression, finding Gabriel curiously optimistic as he searches for new beginnings, discovering glimmers of hope within the darkness. This shift isn't merely evident in the 'Bright Side' mix, either. There's an inherent openness to the songs Gabriel completed for I/O, a spirit evident in such titles as 'Road to Joy,' 'Love Can Heal,' 'This Is Home,' and 'Live and Let Live.' Some of these songs surge, some simmer, but they all return to an idea essayed on the title track: 'stuff coming out, stuff going in/I'm just a part of everything,' a worldview that's intimate and all-encompassing.
-Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic.com, 4.5/5 stars (The AllMusic 2023 Year in Review - Best of 2023)
A vital album of new studio material. Music marked by openness, honesty, caring, and love. Eternity.
-Greg Cahill, The Absolute Sound, March 2024, Music 4/5, Sonics 4/5




Features

  • Bright-Side Mixes by Mark 'Spike' Stent
  • Double LP
  • Gatefold Sleeve
  • 32-Page Booklet
  • OBI Strip

Selections

Side A:

  1. Panopticom
  2. Playing for Time
  3. The Court

Side B:

  1. Four Kinds of Horses
  2. i/o
  3. Love Can Heal

Side C:

  1. Road to Joy
  2. So Much
  3. Olive Tree

Side D:

  1. This Is Home
  2. And Still
  3. Live and Let Live

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