Peter Gabriel - Up (2003) 2002

Исполнитель: Peter Gabriel
Альбом: Up
Жанр: Progressive Rock
Год: (2003) 2002
Страна: UK
Лейбл: Geffen Records
Формат: [SACD-R][OF]
Контейнер: ISO (*.iso)
Тип рипа: image
Разрядность: 64 (2,8 MHz/1 Bit)
Формат: DSD64
Количество каналов: 2.0 & 5.1
Размер: 3,9 GB
Залито на: XFile

In the Spring of 1995, Gabriel began work on the album. Its name was Up from the start, though at one point it was considered to be called I/O. Gabriel began saying the album was near completion somewhere around 1998 but did not release it until September 2002. In the months preceding the album's release, video clips of Gabriel talking about the songs as well as short demos of each song were released at the coming of every full moon on Gabriel's official website.

The album's lyrics deal mostly with birth & especially death. The opening track, "Darkness", is a song about overcoming fears. "Growing Up" is a summation of life put to a pulsating beat. "Sky Blue" is a track Gabriel claimed to have been working on for 10 years before finishing it. The track "No Way Out" is the 1st track to deal with death solely, though death is a common theme across the entire album. "I Grieve" was conceived after Gabriel looked over his catalogue of music as if it were a catalogue of emotional tools. He found one major missing tool to be one to cope with death & therefore "I Grieve" was born. Gabriel performed the song live on the television show "Larry King Weekend" on the 1-year anniversary of 9/11, during which Gabriel said that his 2 daughters were living in New York City on 9/11 & he could not contact them for a while, & that this song was for people who didn't hear anything from their relatives then. It was not, however, written specifically for 9/11, having been performed live prior to that date.
The first single from Up, "The Barry Williams Show" is a down-beat, jazzy song dealing with reality talk shows such as Jerry Springer (in fact, The Brady Bunch star Barry Williams appeared as an audience member in the Sean Penn-directed music video for the song).
The second single, "More Than This" is one of the more upbeat songs from the album. The song wonders over there being something more to life. The song "Signal To Noise" was a challenge for Gabriel because the guest vocalist for the track, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, died. All that was left to work with were recordings from a live performance of an early version of the song at the VH1 Witness show on April 28, 1996. Finally, "The Drop" consists of only Gabriel & a Bцsendorfer grand piano.

Many artists, including Trent Reznor & Elbow, remixed the tracks. These remixes were included as b-sides to the singles.
The album cover pictures 5 water drops in a diagonal line, over a faded background of Gabriel's face. Each drop contains a reflection of Gabriel's face.
The song "I Grieve" is (in an earlier version) on the soundtrack from City Of Angels (1998), as well as featuring in the Smallville episode "Reckoning" & the episode "Found" of NCIS: Los Angeles. An instrumental version of "Signal To Noise" appeared on the soundtrack from Gangs Of New York (2002).
An instrumental version of "Darkness", entitled "Darker Star", was used as the theme song to sci-fi TV show Starhunter 2300.
The album is available on CD, vinyl, Super Audio CD, & DTS DVD-A.
The album, in a similar fashion to the earlier "US", used specially commissioned artwork representing each song, which was reproduced in the CD, vinyl, DVD-A, & SACD packaging. In this case the medium chosen was photography.

Трэклист:

1. "Darkness"
2. "Growing Up"
3. "Sky Blue"
4. "No Way Out"
5. "I Grieve"
6. "The Barry Williams Show"
7. "My Head Sounds Like That"
8. "More Than This"
9. "Signal to Noise"
10. "The Drop"