On Oct. 11, Peter Gabriel will release a new full-length album titled New Blood. The album features Gabriel reworking some of his old songs, this time with an orchestra called the New Blood Orchestra. John Metcalfe arranged the music and Ben Foster conducted. A press release said the idea wasn’t simply to rework old songs, but to pick songs that would benefit from a full-on string treatment.
- 10/4/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
Dead Birds! Epic environmental disaster in the Deep South not a Hollywood revenge series thriller who done it -- [Jan. 5] Back in 1963, A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursued a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town. The strange fascination slowly took a bizarre turn for the worse when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people there in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness. This week, dead birds are falling from the sky in record numbers and Alfred Hitchcock epic movie writers are no where to be found. While the environmental carnage looks like a dead birds disaster where humans get even with The Birds, the real facts are wildlife is dead and no humans or scientists can explain why yet even though they know the how. Thousands of dead birds rained down from the sky in Beebe, Arkansas and Louisiana recently. Tbd’s John Metcalfe sat down with...
- 1/6/2011
- by Green Celebrity News
- Green Celebrity
Peter Gabriel has revealed plans to release an orchestral covers album, which will include songs by Radiohead, Arcade Fire and Elbow. Entitled Scratch My Back, the LP will be a "song swap" with a host of "extremely legendary artists" covering each other's material. "The songs are not simply covers," Gabriel collaborator John Metcalfe told BBC 6 Music. "They are major reinterpretations of some famous stuff. It's quite radical." Although the record is not expected until spring 2010, a tentative tracklisting has been released by (more)...
- 10/30/2009
- by By Oli Simpson
- Digital Spy
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