Peter Gabriel (Genesis) vinyl 2LP UP Tony Levin David Rhodes Peter Green

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Peter Gabriel double vinyl 2LP UP. Realworld / Classic Records, 2002, 7243 8 13062 1 5. SEALED.

Side A
Darkness
Growing Up
Sky Blue

Side B
No Way Out
I Grieve

Side C
The Barry Williams Show
My Head Sounds Like That
More Than This

Side D
Signal To Noise
The Drop

Musicians
Peter Gabriel ~ Vocals, Organ, Bass, Harmonica, Piano, Strings, Harmonium, Keyboards, Tom-Tom, Sampling, Mellotron, String arrangements, Brass arrangement, Electronics, Bass programming, Loop, Crotales, Synthesizer Drums, Sampled Guitar, Sampled Keyboards, String Samples, Telecaster, JamMan
Tony Levin ~ Bass on "Darkness", "Sky Blue", "No Way Out", "I Grieve", "The Barry Williams Show", "My Head Sounds Like That", and "More Than This"
David Rhodes ~ Guitars on "Darkness", "Growing Up", "Sky Blue", "No Way Out", "My Head Sounds Like That", and "Signal To Noise". Guitar on "The Barry Williams Show" and "More Than This". Electric Guitar on "I Grieve". Backing vocals on "Growing Up", "Sky Blue", "The Barry Williams Show", "More Than This", and "Signal To Noise"
Manu Katché
Hossam Ramzy
L. Shankar ~ Violin (Improvised) on "I Grieve"
Melanie Gabriel
Tchad Blake
Jon Brion
Richard Chappell
Alan Coleman
Edel Griffith
Christian Le Chevretel ~ Trumpet on "The Barry Williams Show"
Adrian Chivers
Pete Davis
Dominque Mahut
Richard Evans
Bob Ezrin
Mitchell Froom
Steve Gadd
Peter Green
Dominic Greensmith
Will Gregory
Stephen Hague
Ronan O'Neill
Chris Hughes
Nick Ingraham
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Daniel Lanois
Sally Larkin
Ged Lynch
Chuck Norman
David Sancious
Ed Shearmur
Alex Swift
Assane Thiam
Danny Thompson
Will White
Black Dyke Band ~ Brass on "My Head Sounds Like That"
Blind Boys of Alabama ~ Additional vocals on "Sky Blue". Backing vocals on "More Than This"
Dhol Foundation
London Session Orchestra ~ Strings on "Darkness"

Up (2002) is the seventh studio and 13th album overall released by the British progressive rock musician Peter Gabriel.

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 and 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 first 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 and therefore "I Grieve" was born. Gabriel performed the song live on the television show "Larry King Weekend" on the one-year anniversary of 9/11, during which Gabriel said that his two daughters were living in New York City on 9/11 and he could not contact them for a while, and 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 and a Bösendorfer grand piano.

Interesting information
Many artists, including Trent Reznor and Elbow, remixed the tracks. These remixes were included as b-sides to the singles.

The album cover pictures five water drops in a diagonal line, over a faded background of Gabriel's face. Each drop contains a refracted image 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" and 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, and 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, and SACD packaging. In this case the medium chosen was photography.

Vinyl LP is still in SEALED brand new condition.

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