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[R]eported in The Times newspaper on January 21, 2007, Peter Gabriel has announced that he will release his next album in the U.S. without the aid of a record company. Gabriel, an early pioneer of digital music distribution, has raised £2 million towards recording and 'shipping' his next as-yet-untitled album in a venture with investment boutique Ingenious Media. Gabriel is expected to earn double the money that he would get through a conventional record deal. Commercial director Duncan Reid of Ingenious explains the business savvy of the deal, saying, "If you're paying a small distribution fee and covering your own marketing costs, you enjoy the lion's share of the proceeds of the album. Gabriel is expected to outsource CD production for worldwide release through Warner Bros. Records.
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In contrast, the second Peter Gabriel, produced in Holland by Fripp, employs the spare and uncluttered sound popularized by the punk movement. (Although you would hardly mistake this for a punk album, Gabriel does neatly display his cognizance and support of what was going on with the song "D.I.Y.") The new method showed Gabriel condensing his songs into tight units linked by themes of paranoia. Freed from the onus of art-rock, Gabriel presents his most obsessive and personal compositions (e.g., "On the Air," "Perspective"), packets of insight that are misleadingly restrained. (The first two records were combined on a 1983 British cassette. Issued a decade later, Revisited is a needless and not-quite-complete condensation of them.)
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Gabriel recorded his first solo album in 1976 and 1977 with producer Bob Ezrin, simply titled Peter Gabriel. His first solo success came with the single "Solsbury Hill", an autobiographical piece expressing his thoughts on leaving Genesis. In it, he sings, "My friends would think I was a nut...", alluding to his decision to begin a period of self-exploration and reflection, while he grew cabbages, played the piano for long hours, practised yoga and biofeedback, and spent time with his family. Although mainly happy with the album, Peter Gabriel felt that the track "Here Comes the Flood" was over-produced. A far simpler rendition can be found on Robert Fripp's album, Exposure, in his first compilation, and in his 2003 concert DVD. His recent live performances of this track are even more raw with just piano and vocals.
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Peter Gabriel collectors may be familiar with six of the 18 tracks here, as they were initially broadcast worldwide by the King Biscuit Flower Hour and have circulated extensively ever since. However, here for the first time is the complete unedited 94-minute Bottom Line recording from the early show of October 4, 1978, when Gabriel debuted his second album material to a highly enthusiastic New York City audience. The intimacy of the venue, which only held several hundred listeners, brings a palpable (and easily audible) immediacy to this performance that is utterly unique and quite engaging.
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Biography: As the leader of Genesis in the early '70s, Peter Gabriel helped move progressive rock to new levels of theatricality. In his solo career, Gabriel was no less ambitious, but he was more subtle in his methods. With his first eponymous solo album in 1977, he began exploring darker, more cerebral territory, ...Read full biography
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Born February 13, 1950, Peter Gabriel began playing music as a drummer in rock and soul bands. In 1966 with classmates at the British secondary school Charterhouse, he founded a songwriter's collective initially dubbed the Garden Wall. Soon... the band became known as Genesis. The band quickly attained cult status, releasing seven albums.
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