

And it wouldn't be a Gabriel album without notable global cameos, like "Signal to Noise," featuring the late, great Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Punjabi percussive ensemble the Dhol Foundation. Mixing, Additional Production, Bells, Flute, Guitar (Electric), Metallophone, Piano, Radio, Shaker, Sound Effects, Tuba. Gabriel fans will appreciate the typical band contributions, lyrical sexual innuendo, and thanks to Latin Playboy Tchad Blake's binaural sound recording - headphone happiness. While Gabriel is justifiably known for his arrangements, Up could rightly be called his symphonic work, with several cuts featuring astute arrangements from the London Session Orchestra. Like most of Gabriel's albums, his songs are of two broad categories: accessible, poppy cuts like "The Barry Williams Show"- where the Jerry Springer-esque host sings, "Dysfunctional excess is all it took for my success"- and minor key introspective works, such as songs of loss "No Way Out" and the subsequent "I Grieve." A reprise to his well known "Here Comes the Flood," the closing piano/vox "The Drop" uses the image of being in an airborne jetliner with an open door to embody our existential crisis.
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With all that going on, it's no surprise that Up is about nothing less than existence. We didnt include earbuds here, as over-ear headphones are preferable for Bluetooth and listening to our binaural beats music. He is releasing a new song each full moon and he comissioned two excellent mix engineers to do each song: Mark Spike Stent (with his mixes being labelled. Instead of staying home to count royalties from prior albums, the former Genesis frontman has been busy as a producer, soundtracker (Rabbit-Proof Fence), label chief of distinguished international imprint Real World Records, and co-founder of the human rights organization Witness. Like a latter Beatles album or Brian Eno 84 recording, Tchad Blake's work is usually a 'down the rabbit hole' experience the listener is transported to another realm where the sonic texture asserts.


It's been 10 years since Peter Gabriel's last full-blown commercial release, Us. In the last decade, Blake, with frequent partner Mitchell Froom, has created an aural terrain unto itself.
