Peter Gabriel – dalok a két évtized után érkező i/o albumról, Brian Eno közreműködésével

A 2023-as évben 13 telihold lesz (az utolsó december 27-én), de Gabriel egyik interjúja szerint az év végére betervezett albummegjelenés után akár még 2024-re is átcsúszhat pár bónuszfelvétel a szériában. A turnén eddig játszott 13 új dal közül idén hat már megjelent stúdióverzióban (köztük a Playing For Time, mely egy korai verziójában már 2012-2014 közt is elhangzott koncerteken), a többi féltucat kiadatlan szerzemény közt is van pár olyan, amelyeknek korábbi inkarnációját már hallhattuk koncertváltozatban (a What Lies Aheadet 2014-es, a Love Can Healt 2016-es fellépésekről), de a rajongói fórumok szerint a közeljövőben még további dalok felbukkanására is számíthatunk (például Put The Bucket Down és Path Of Fortune címmel).

A címével a legutóbbi Peter Gabriel-sorlemezek (So – 1986, Us – 1992, Up – 2002) kétbetűs mintáját követő – a görög mitológiai királylány és róla elnevezett Jupiter-hold mellett elsősorban az input/output összefüggésrendszerre utaló – i/o album témái közt felbukkan a technikai civilizációval és természeti környezettel való viszonyunk, a vallás és az erőszak kapcsolata, a káosz és a jogrend, az idő és az emlékezés, a dalnok édesanyjának halála vagy épp az életképesség visszanyerése. A stúdiófelvételeken a 73 éves brit dalszerző-producer-billentyűs-énekes fő kísérői régi bevált zenésztársak: gitáron David Rhodes, basszuson Tony Levin, dobokon Manu Katché (ők a turnén is játszanak), Brian Eno pedig nemcsak szintetizátortémákkal és ritmikai megoldásokkal segített be (például a Panopticom és The Court című számokba vagy az Everything Is Recorded-főnök Richard Russell-lel készült Four Kinds Of Horsesbe), de a funkos Road To Joy című legfrissebb kislemezdalban még társproduceri kreditet is kapott (ebben a vonóshangszerelést az új-zélandi születésű John Metcalfe jegyzi, a női vokálokat pedig a Soweto Gospel Choir dél-afrikai gospel kórus szolgáltatja, mellyel Gabriel már a bevezetőben említett Down To Earth filmdalon is együtt dolgozott).

a januártól június elejéig megjelent Panopticom, The Court, Playing For Time, i/o, Four Kinds Of Horses és Road To Joy című számok, melyekből kissé eltérő Bright-Side és Dark-Side mixek is készültek:

In the air the smoke cloud takes its form
All the phones take pictures while it’s warm

Panopticom
Let’s find out what’s going on
Panopticom
Let’s see where clues are leading
Panopticom
Won’t you show us what’s going on?
Panopticom
So how much is real?

A nd we pour the medicine down
While we watch the world around us
We got witness on the ground
Takin’ in the evidence
And we reach across the globe
We got all the information flowing
You face the mother lode
Tentacles around you
Around you

From above and deep below the ground
It was in Berlin
That all the evidence was found
Look from the street
And we look down from the skies
See through the barriers
We can see through all those lies

Panopticom
Let’s find out what’s going on
Panopticom
Let’s see where clues are leading
Panopticom
Won’t you show us what’s going on?
Panopticom
So how much is real?

And we pour the medicine down
While we watch the world around us
We got witness on the ground
Takin’ in the evidence
And we reach across the globe
We got all the information flowing
You face the mother lode
Tentacles around you
Around you
Around you

You put your hand up, you make your bid
You got your pictures all laid out in the grid
Look in the garden in the surface ground
Buried everything that you never want found

And the court will rise
While the pillars all fall

We got the healer and the birthday cake
We got the real thing and we got the fake
You got the ladder, but where is the snake?
How my body begins to wake

And the court will rise
While the pillars all fall

You got the money going up your nose
You got the data, don’t control where it goes
But you have left it, getting down to the bone
You’ve all your memories on your mobile phone

And the court will rise
While the pillars all fall

Out of this sentence
The ball and the claw
And all these pronouncements
I can make up the voice of the law
Out in the market
All our lives are on sale
And the balls are drifting further apart
Recovery cannot fail

Got the things you need, and they’re all in place
Got the big shot barrister to keep my case
Got my baby throwing up on a chocolate milk
The black cat judge reaches for his silk

And the court will rise
While the pillars all fall

We lost the line between the good and bad
We lost the line between the sane and the mad
Used to draw the line across the writing pad
The line of conscience that we never have had

And the court will rise
While the pillars all fall

So many are reaching for it
So many reaching out for it
You know that justice is blind

So many looking out for it
So many looking out for it
You know that justice is blind

Far far away
Out amongst the stars
There’s a planet spinning slowly
We call it ours
Any time, any day
Any moment that we bring to life
Will never fade away

Oh, oh the moments come and go
While the memories ebb and flow
Play again, play again
Oh, there’s a hill that we must climb
Climb toward the mist of time
It’s all in here
What we’ve been through

Down, I’m getting it down
Sorting it out
So everything I care about
Is held in here
All of those I love inside
Everybody’s playing for time
You and I still playing for time

There goes the sun
Back from where it came
The young move to the center
The mom and dad, the frame
Any space, any time
Any moment that we bring to life
Ridiculous, sublime

Oh, oh the moments come and go
While the memories ebb and flow
Play again, play again
Oh, there’s a hill that we must climb
Climb toward these mists of time
It’s all in here
What we’ve been through

Down, getting it down
Sorting it out
So everything I care about
Is held in here

All of those I love
Inside

The future shines a sunny day
Unpacked memories stored away
All the while the clock keeps ticking
You and I still playing for time

One by one the voices silenced
For they know that time will tell
It’s time that wears the crown
And time that rings the bell

All cards on the table
All hands are down
Everybody’s playing for time
Everyone’s still playing for time

Looking for a flicker
In the face of the clock
Hidden in the mountain
In the body of the rock
No one seems to notice or to feel the aftershock

They’re all too busy playing for time
Everybody’s playing for time
You and I still playing for time

I’m just a part of everything
I stand on two legs and I learn to sing
It’s not what were said
It’s not what I heard
I walk with my dog and I whistle with a bird
Stuff coming out, stuff going in
I’m just a part of everything
Stuff coming out, stuff going in
I’m just a part of everything

So we think we really live apart
Because we’ve got two legs, a brain, and a heart
We all belong to everything
To the octopus suckers and the buzzard’s wing
To the elephant’s trunk and buzzing bee’s sting
Stuff coming out, stuff going in
I’m just a part of everything
I’m just a part of everything

i/o, i/o
Coming out, I’m going in
i/o, i/o
I’m just a part of everything

I learn like a baby, I learn like a seed
Spread out my tubers wherever I need
I find any way to attach and connect
And I run like water, no cause or effect

Stuff coming out, stuff going in
I’m just a part of everything
Stuff coming out, stuff going in
I’m just a part of everything

When the panting is over and the warmth has run out
Love will be flowing, I have no doubt
With the vehicle in neutral and the ground to be faced
I’ll be all laid to rest in my proper place
Into the roots in the old oak tree
Where life can move freely in and out of me

Stuff coming out, stuff going in
I’m just a part of everything

i/o, i/o
Coming out, I’m going in
i/o, i/o
I’m just a part of everything

It all seemed so simple
Remarkably clear
Like the darkest superhero
You were burst into our fear
They must have seen you looking
Watched everything you said
Knowing you could be a part of it
They fill your head
Fill your head

Come all the nights
Oh, come all the days
So inaccessible in this land
This land beyond the brilliant haze
Here is all your money
There is the load
This is how you travel
If you live to see the world explode

Four kinds of horses, four kinds of men
Ah, you say you’re something different
But you do it all again

Four kinds of horses, four kinds of men
Ah, you think you’re something different
But you do it all again
Again and again, again and again

Your mind is made up so certain what is right
But when they ordered everything
Will they see you were born so bright
Oh, mother illusion with your jacket of flames
Your face it is everywhere
Such a dark, dark shade of fame

Come all the nights
Oh, come all the days
So inaccessible in this land
This land beyond the brilliant haze
Here is all your money
There is the load
This is how you travel
If you live to see the world explode

Four kinds of horses, four kinds of men
Ah, you say you’re something different
But you do it all again

Four kinds of horses, four kinds of men
Ah, you think you’re something different
But you do it all again
Again and again, again and again

We feel the vibration
We’re all holding it down
We feel the vibration
It’s coming out of the ground

Waking up, waking up, waking up…
Waking up the road to joy

So as swollen skies
Look for anchors, look for tides
Sharp sound swim around
Soaking into the brittle ground

Been so many days, been held inside this body
Been so many days and there’s nothing to do
Been so many days in the throbbing of the darkness
Been so many days, I’ve been waiting for you

Back in the world
Waking up the road to joy

Love comes through the walls
Won’t slip wherever it falls
Life’s form won’t calm you down
Going in for another round
This is how it goes, I’ve been listening to the voices
This is how it goes, you were sure I was gone
This is how it goes in a state of meditation
This is how it goes, I’ve been waiting for you

Back in the world
Waking up the road to joy
Back in the world
Walking down the road to joy

Thе engine stops and silence pours
Fills the holes and cracks, don’t fuse
Young and old, girl and boy
Dance along the road to joy
Picture sharpens in your head
Opens up when it’s been red
All the things he’s trained to see
Come on, darling, come to me

Show your eyes, show your teeth
That’s the way to build belief
Touch my hair, touch my knee
You can wake up every part of me

Get the blood to flow in every nook and cranny
Get the blood to flow from my head to my toes
Get the blood to flow, flowing all around me
Get the blood to flow with the life in my soul

Back in the world
Walking down the road to joy

Just when you think it can’t get worse
The mind reveals the universe
Opens up, but just to start
It gives you straight just who you are
I’m more a dog, you’re more a cat
Then we getty bod of that
Alive again all as snake
Then we jump into the lake

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FRISSÍTÉS: július 3-án megérkezett a So Much című hetedik dal is, melyben – akárcsak a Four Kinds Of Horses és The Court című számokban – az énekes 1976-os születésű lánya, Melanie Gabriel a női vokalista!

So much unfinished business
All sticky with desire
Raking through the empty shells
Of all the rockets we fired
Set the navigation
For the Earth all warm and wet
And as the longing drops away
The compass is reset

Oh, there’s so much to aim for
You can shoot at the sun
But all of it just comes and goes
There’s only so much can be done

Time slips in the mirror
As an old man, I was born
But I’ve grown to be a baby
With a halo and a horn
Burn up like a lightning bolt
All gone within a flash
You look around to find a home
Where the asteroid will crush

Oh, there’s so much to live for
So much lеft to give
This edition is limited
Thеre’s only so much can be done

The body stiffens, tires and aches
In its wrinkled, blotchy skin
With each decade, more camouflage
For the wild eyed child within
Now close your eyes for a moment
Look down and look above
All the warmth inside of you
Comes from those you love

Oh, there’s so much to live for
So much left to give
This edition is limited
There’s only so much can be done
So much to aim for
Shooting up at the sun
When it all comes and goes
There’s only so much can be done
So much can be done
Only so much can be done

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FRISSÍTÉS 2: augusztus 1-jén megjött az Olive Tree című nyolcadik szám is, melyben ismét John Metcalfe volt a hangszerelő segéd!

In the misty silver night
My eyes fall to the ground
I can feel it come alive
In the seeds pushing out through the soil
New life weaves its way out through the coil
Nothing’s gonna hold this movement down

I was apart from it
My head in the sky
With no ears to listen
No light reached my eye
There grows the fungi
Still tied to its past
To the melting of the solid world
The change is coming fast

And it’s, oh-oh!
I’ve got the water falling on me
It’s all waking me up
I’ve got the sunlight bright on my back
Warming up all my bones
I’ve got thе cool breeze right on my skin
Bringing every cеll to life
Making all connections live
From one point to another
And we’re all here, just the same
Try to make some sense of it
Where I’m going now
How it fits together
In the bigger shape of things

And I slide into the waves
Leaving land behind
It’s another world I’m entering now
There’s the shark pushing through the swaying weeds
Predator and prey sort out their needs
Nothing’s going to hold this pattern down

I was apart from it
In a world of our own
We lost all connection
To the place from which we’d grown
But here in this helmet
I can read other minds
Scan all the thinking
All the juice I can find

And it’s, oh-oh!
I’ve got the water falling on me
It’s all waking me up
I’ve got the sunlight bright on my back
Warming up all my bones
I’ve got the cool breeze right on my skin
Bringing every cell to life
Making all connections live
From one point to another
And we’re all here, just the same
Try to make some sense of it
Where I’m going now
How it fits together
In the bigger shape of things

Water falls on me
It’s waking up the world
Water falls on us
Falling from the head
Falling from the head
Falling from the head

I’ve got the water falling on me
I’ve got the sunlight bright on my back
I’ve got the cool breeze right on my skin
I’ve got the water falling on me
Water falling on me

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további új dalok a május közepén indult turnén:

This Is Home

And Still

Live And Let Live

So Much

Olive Tree

What Lies Ahead (egy 2014-ben már játszott dal új verziója)

Love Can Heal (egy 2016-ban már játszott dal új verziója)

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a teljes berlini koncert május 26-án:

Peter Gabriel bemutatja turnézenekarát:

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a 2023-ban megjelenő számok előtt Peter Gabriel utolsó új szerzeménye a 2017-es Madarat tolláról rajzfilmhez írt Everybird volt, mely a filmdalait összegyűjtő 2019-es Rated PG válogatásalbumon került kereskedelmi forgalomba: