Peter Gabriel I/O (2CD/Blu-Ray with Dolby Atmos mix out 12/1!)

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Lame. My apologies. I figured you could watch with the register for free thing.
Not your fault! The 2-minute preview makes it look pretty interesting. And I don't know if they ask for any verification of student status. So if you happen to have an .edu address. . . .
 
The in-Side scoop, from PG's newsletter:
The song came late in the recording of the i/o album, but has it's origins from a previous project, "there had been a song musically I'd started, I think, around the OVO project called 'Pukka'. It was very different to this, but it still had some bits, which I may still explore, but it was actually the starting point for coming back to this song."

We had a chance to catch up with Hans-Martin Buff this week to chat about his work on the In-Side mix of Road to Joy and he told us that initially he was just sent a hard drive full of songs when Peter first asked him to get involved in the i/o project.

”... the first song I played was Road to Joy, then still called Pukka, and that grabbed me instantly as something that would be cool in 3D.

It is, I think, the only one where some of my overdubs made it back to the stereo guys as well... some percussion and stuff like that. There was a huge mix where I had to take stereo decisions like the duelling low-end of Don E and Tony Levin... how to make that really funky. That big splash at the end, we used the millpond in front of the Big Room at Real World to do that. I used the strings in a really creative way, like cutting them up and putting them all over the place.

It was like a 10-day adventure, which is a long time for a mix in any format.”
 
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The next song released is "So Much". Released Monday July 3rd.

‘I was trying purposefully not to be clever with this. I wanted to get a very simple chorus but one which still had some substance to the harmony and melody. Something that was easy to digest but still had a bit of character to it.

So Much is about mortality, getting old, all the bright, cheerful subjects, but I think when you get to my sort of age you either run away from mortality or you jump into it and try and live life to the full and that always seems to make a lot more sense to me. The countries that seem most alive are those that have death as part of their culture.’

The reason I chose So Much as a title is because I’m addicted to new ideas and all sorts of projects. I get excited by things and want to jump around and do different things. I love being in a mess of so much! And yet it also means there's just so much time, or whatever it is, available. Balancing them both is what the song is about.’
 
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