Reviews of Peter Gabriel releases on CD or SACD (Super Audio CD)
After more than 20 years, Peter Gabriel's long-awaited new album was finally released on 1 December 2023 and it's actually called i/o. Read our reviews (one from a bright side, one from a dark side) and our track by track special here.
i/o (2023)In September 2019, Gabriel released a collection of alternate and rare versions of a number of songs. The compilation is available for download only. Here's all the information.
Flotsam and Jetsam (2019)In April 2019 Peter Gabriel releases a Vinyl Picture Disc with ten songs he has contributed to films over the years. It's a special release to celebrate the 2019 Record Store Day. Find all info here.
Rated PG [Record Store Day] (2019)All shows from both 2014 Back To Front tour legs will also be made available on 2CD with another Encore Series. The first part of 2014 is now being shipped, we have all the news and all the show reviews.
Encore Series 2014: Back To Front live in Europe - Info und show reviewsThe European leg of the Back To Front Tour has also been released on 2CD (Encore Series 2013). There are no USB sticks this time, but you get high quality downloads. Find here a show-by-show review and a comparison and the ultimate guide which show might be the best.
Encore Series 2013: Back To Front live in Europe - info and reviewsSurprisingly, three years after Scratch My Back the second part of the song swap project is released. Twelve artists of all musical walks of life are assembled on a varied And I'll Scratch Yours.
... And I'll Scratch Yours (2013)In 2012 Peter Gabriel releases a huge retrospective of his most successfl album, So. We have assembled all the information about the remaster, the point of the 3CD set and the Deluxe boxset as well as reviews of the releases.
So (25th Anniversary Edition)Gabriel's first Best-Of compilation was released in 1990. Let's take a retrospective look at it.
In 2011, Peter Gabriel played at the Hammersmith Apollo, London, with the New Blood Orchestra. The concert was rnpublished on DVD and Blu-ray. In 2012 it also came out as a live double album.
Peter Gabriel releases all shows from his 2012 Back To Front show on 2CD and USB-sticks. We have all the information here in our reviews.
In 2011, Peter Gabriel releases an album of his own songs, recorded with an orchestra - it is called New Blood. Christian Gerhardts shares his impressions.
Peter Gabriel releases an album full of cover versions. Scratch My Back was recorded without a band, but with a full orchestra. Christian Gerhardts, Martin Klinkhardt and Steffen Gerlach have listened carefully...
In the early 90s Peter Gabriel set up the RealWorld Recording Weeks where artists from all across the world would record music in a kind of "musical brainstorming". One thing that came out of this is the album Big Blue Ball. It is not a Peter Gabriel album, but a collaboration project that took more than fifteen years to be released. Gabriel can be heard on four of the songs.
Peter Gabriel's new Greatest Hits album comes in no less than four different editions. Just a rehash or worth getting? Read the answers here.
Bootlegs are undeniably popular with the fans. Peter Gabriel has now released individual sound board recordings of all North American shows he played on his Growing Up / Stripped Down tour 2003 on 2CD each. All of them together are also available in one sumptuos box set. Read here what the big deal is.
Shortly before UP Peter Gabriel released the soundtrack for the film Rabbit-Proof Fence. On it he uses material written during the Up sessions.
Peter Gabriel's new album from 2002 needed 10 years for production. Karin Woywod checks out whether or not it was worth the wait.
Before Up came out in 2002, Peter Gabriel got sidetracked by a number of other projects.One of these is the "semi-solo album" Ovo. It came out in 2000 and it is actually the soundtrack for the show at the Millennium Dome.
Six years went by before Peter Gabriel presented a successor to his tribute to mainstream, So. His new album has another two-letter title. Bernd Zindler did a quality check.
Passion is a new beginning in many ways:It is Peter Gabriel's first real film score, the first release on his new label RealWorld and not least an eminent body of music that helped making world music popular. Martin Klinkhardt checked it out for you.
In 1986 Peter Gabriel boosted his popularity with his album So that became a big hit on both sides of the Atlantic.
This was Peter Gabriel's first soundtrack for a whole film - at the wish of its director, Alan Parker. Gabriel fulfilled his rnwish of using existing compositions, but still created something new, too. The outcome is a gloomy, but absolutely rnworthwhile collection of emotions in music.
After four studio records Peter Gabriel finally released a live album in 1983. Plays Live covers the tour for his fourth album where Gabriel was accompanied by a band who are widely considered THE Gabriel live band.
Peter Gabriel also released his third and fourth albums in German language. Harald Köhncke takes a separate look at these two special albums in Peter Gabriel's discography.
After his unconventional third album Gabriel began to experiment more and more with world music and new technologies, and it shows on Gabriel's fourth album. Though it is untitled again it is commonly know as Security.
Five years after he left Genesis Peter Gabriel recorded a key album of his career. Biko was a song that left its mark on Peter Gabriel the musician as well as the person. The third album is also the birthplace of the legendary Phil Collins drum sound.
New book about the career of Peter Gabriel.