After his successful Secret World Tour, Peter Gabriel took some time for different activities in the following years. That even resulted in a collaboration with his ex-Band Genesis: For the 4CD-Set Archive 1967-1975, Peter has recorded new vocals for the live version of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. During that time also the new version of The Carpet Crawlers was recorded and eventually released in 1999 on the Turn It On Again: The Hits sampler. Besides that, Peter was involved in soundtracks, collabroations of all kinds and some songs of befriended musicians ...
In the mid-nineties, some of the tracks from the Up album were recorded as demo versions, or were even tested live. And with a few delays, his anticipated CDRom project EVE was released. There was also a swatch watch called Adam, for which Peter composed the alarm melody. He was also involved in a couple of further non album tracks ...
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Signal To Noise [live 1996] Best available source: Bootleg - Peter Gabriel Witness 96 (DVD) |
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Recording date: 1996? Recording location: Real World Studios/Box Produced by: Performed by: Peter Gabriel feat. ??? First official release: ? Best available source: Adam (Swatch promo clip) |
His social commitment was also still alive. For Amnesty International Peter recorded a track and also performed live in 1998 ...
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Get Up, Stand Up Recording location: ? Performed by: Peter Gabriel & ? First official release/Best available source: ? |
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Produced by: Erick Benzi
Performed by: Peter Gabriel, Youssou N'Dour, Stephan Eicher, Zucchero, Anggun, Patrick Bruel, Faudel, Lââm, Lokua Kanza, Nourith, Axelle Red (vocals), Nicolas Mingot (guitar, Cyril Tarquiny (guitar/vocals), Gildas Arzel & Jaques Veneruso (vocals) First official release/Best available source: June 2000 - Various Artists Solidays L'Album (FR CD/BMG 74321 76761 2) |
Signal To Noise from the later released album Up was performed twice in 1996 and 1998, but there are also demo versions from that period. Besides that, other demos from the OVO record were released in the frame of promotional activities (the demo version of Downside-Up, Feed The Flame, was already recorded during the US sessions, see part 7) ...
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Preshow Drones [Low Light demo] Parade [The Time Of The Turning demo] Slow Crickets [The Man Who Loved The Earth demo] Fast Crickets [The Hand That Sold Shadows demo] Reel [The Weavers Reel demo] Father, Son [demo] The Tower Of Babel [The Tower That Ate People demo] Heat [Revenge demo] Scream [White Ashes demo] Lovers Duet [Downside-Up demo] Nest [The Nest That Sailed The Sky demo] Road [Make Tomorrow demo] Recording location: Real World Studios/Box Produced by: Peter Gabriel First official release: 28th March 2000 - Peter Gabriel Music For The Millenium Show (Work In Progress) (UK promo CD/Virgin) Best available source: same |
During the millennium years, Peter more or less concentrated his work on OVO (The Millennium Show). A studio album about OVO was also released (on which Peter did not sing on the majority of songs) and was made available for visitors of the show and mailorder customers in April 2000, before it got a proper world wide release, but without the track The Tree That Went Up ...
The instrumental The Man Who Loved The Earth was released in a Rap-version with Neneh Cherry and Rosco as The Story Of OVO on the Bonus Disc of the first edition of OVO and as opener of the second edition of OVO ...
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The Story Of OVO |
There are a couple of alternate versions of the album tracks, which appeared over time. Most likely, some of these versions were part of the so far never released Peter Gabriel vocal version of the album, which was first called Ovo Revisited, and later Son Of Ovo ...
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The Time Of The Turning (Instrumental Version) Best available source: same |
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Downside-Up (Instrumental) Best available source: same |
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Remix date: 2004 Remixed by: Daniel Lanois & Richard Chappell with Paul Grady First official release/Best available source: 25th October 2004 - Peter Gabriel PLAY - The Videos (DVD/Warner 5050467-5681-2-9) |
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Remix date: 2004 Remixed by: Daniel Lanois & Richard Chappell First official release: 1st November 2004 - Peter Gabriel/Various Artists Entrata/Uscida (UK promo CD/Virgin MITS 20041/MITS 20042) Best available source: Peter Gabriel Flotsam And Jetsam (16/44.1k download/Caroline/Real World PG20) |
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Remix Date: ? Remixed by: ? First official release/Best available source: --- |
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Remix Date: 2005 Remixed by: Stefan Goodchild (Stabilizer) First official release/Best available source: 31th October 2005 - Peter Gabriel Still Growing Up Live & Unwrapped (DVD/Warner Music Vision) |
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Remix date: ? First official release/Best available source: 19th January 2010 - Various Artists Download To Donate For Haiti (first edition) (320kbs mp3 download/musicforrelief.org) |
Three tracks from OVO were rerecorded for the orchestral album New Blood in 2010/2011: Father, Son, Downside-Up and The Nest That Sailed The Sky. The latter was also used for the soundtrack Long Walk Home in the tracks A Sense Of Home and The Return Part 2. For the next real Peter Gabriel-Album, fans still had to wait two further years, although he mentioned in 2000 already that he had penned around 130 songs, though in different production stages ...
The return favour album: Peter Gabriel's songs are covered by other artists.
Double-CD with both, Scratch My Back and ... And I'll Scratch Yours in digipak format
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