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...Last weekend Peter Gabriel, finishing up his first album proper in 20 years, arranged for i/o (about ageing and grief — for parents and for the planet) to be pumped out through multiple speakers at an “immersive...
...“Peter Gabriel’s song ‘Biko’ — I didn’t know what it meant, I went to the library and looked it up, and that’s how I learned about apartheid. I’m really grateful to him for that.”...
...Next the band lost both Piggott — replaced first by Lindisfarne’s Rod Clements and then by Peter Kirtley — and its original drummer Terry Cox....
...Kanjira, mridangam and tabla dance with the piano, and Manas Kumar’s violin plays games with Peter Puskas’s bass....
...Dance was held, were everywhere — pictured on screens, and playing as background music while stages were reset: a snatch of the Royal Drummers of Burundi, The Beat racing through “Mirror in the Bathroom”, Peter...
...Thomas Brooman was one of the founders of the festival, having impressed Peter Gabriel as a “likely lad” when he interviewed him for the Bristol Recorder, a local music magazine....
...It’s a news story that recalls the scandal of 2005-06, says Peter Barber, former head of maps at the British Library....
...Voice-and-piano duets are not unknown in folk music — June Tabor has worked in this territory, and indeed Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears played English folk songs in precisely this formation....
...Boden as frontman has always rejoiced in Grand Guignol and appeared to revel in the cruelty of the folk tradition, his stage persona a mix of Tom Waits and Peter Cook (in civilian life or offstage he is...
...The drums look for a groove, reject it, and the song peters out, as if she cannot be bothered to see through the delivery of the message to its end. On “Unbound”, the acoustic guitars are back....
...Takahashi’s claustrophobic drumming kicks off “Boku No Kakera” like a response to Peter Gabriel’s “Intruder” from the previous year — that third Gabriel album also possibly gets a nod in the marimba patterns...
...Peter Brook’s 1989 film dramatised the story with a soundtrack (released on Real World) that sounded so ancient as to be almost prehistoric....
...Anna Home, who adapted the series from three books by Peter Dickinson, kept the narrative at a tight and constant pitch....
...Her red dress gives her confidence, and she takes off into wordless vocalisation over Peter Broderick’s violin keen....
...It begins with exploratory funk guitar riffs and a weary groan from Ambolley, and then Peter Mensah’s drums and Kwesi Arko’s bass lock into an effortless Afrobeat groove....
...competitors with whom they shared bills: Electric Light Orchestra, Supertramp, Man, Queen and, in particular, Genesis, whose sonic template they adopted without bringing quite the lyrical dexterity of Peter...
...Ask Peter Gabriel, or any of the other long-time chieftains of WOMAD, what the most memorable performance of the world music festival’s more than three decades was, and the response is always the same: a...
...Toshi Tsuchitori, a former musical director for Peter Brook, strikes sanukaito stones, volcanic rocks with the sonority of bells, on an all-too-brief extract from Ishiura....
...danceable fusion made them practically the house band of Womad for a decade or more, and a mainstay of RealWorld Records — their CDs for the label saw guest slots from Sinead O’Connor to Robert Plant to Peter...
...An unexpected cover came in the form of Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill”, performed slow and stark, almost as if it been written instead by Peter Gabriel....
...For many people, the Aga Khan’s most famous contribution to music is a throwaway namecheck in Peter Sarsted’s 1969 hit, “Where Do You Go To My Lovely?”....
...Peter Bellamy killed himself in 1991, too early to hear even the first re-recording of his main work....
...A couple of songs later “Queen Of Carter’s Bar” (the song co-written with Nashville producer Peter Groenwald) relocates the traditional tale of Tam Lin to a dive-bar — and narrates it from the point of view...
...It was now Fleetwood and McVie together who laid down the signature bass-and-drums riff that would define what was (with all due deference to former members Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer, Danny Kirwan and...
...Elsewhere, a version of Peter Gabriel’s “Wallflower”, about civilians “disappeared” during a dirty war, enervates the impact of Gabriel’s mounting hymnal chords, and some of the autobiographical material...
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