While Up isn't stylistically different from his canon, it proves that Peter Gabriel is back in the big time.
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.
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. I recommend you to close your eyes first and then see the video )Using the recreation and sounds of Heavens Night that I did in a previous video, I remixed. Early on in his career, Tchad worked on a large analogue mixing console. Tchad likes to create binaural records for which he uses a dummy-head with artificial ears. For the artikel of SOS Tchad Blake was interviewed as well as a few others like Manny Marroquin and Michael Brauer. Atmos is a space, but it’s not all about sounding like a Marvel film, although it can be - maybe EDM suits that kind of movement and creativity within the Atmos space, but that. And the way we’re creating the mixes is different, he continues.
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. Be it metal pipes, screwdrivers, scissors or a coat hanger, he works with anything. Play it on your Sennheiser 660 headphones and you’ll get the binaural mix and so on. With all that going on, it's no surprise that Up is about nothing less than existence. 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. It's been 10 years since Peter Gabriel's last full-blown commercial release, Us. The Binaural recording sessions took place at Stone Gossards Studio Litho in Seattle, WA between March 1999 and January 2000, with innovative producer Tchad.
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