Big Blue Ball

Big Blue Ball

Big Blue Ball
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Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-06-24
Music Label: REAL WORLD
Soundtracks:
  1. Whole Thing (Original Mix) (feat. Francis Bebey, Alex Faku, Tim Finn, Peter Gabriel, Karl Walllinger, Andy White)
  2. Habibe (feat Natacha Atlas, Hossam Ramzy, Neil Sparkes)
  3. Shadow (feat. Juan Ca??izares, Papa Wemba)
  4. altus silva (feat. Joseph Arthur, Ronan Browne, Deep Forest, James McNally, Iarla ?" Lion??ird, Vernon Reid)
  5. Exit Through You (feat. Joseph Arthur, Peter Gabriel, Karl Wallinger)
  6. Everything Comes From You (feat. Richard Evans, Joji Hirota, Sevara Nazarkhan, Sinead O Connor, Guo Yue)
  7. Burn You Up, Burn You Down (feat. Billy Cobham, Peter Gabriel, The Holmes Brothers, Wendy Melvoin, Arona N diaye, Jah Wobble)
  8. Forest (feat. Levon Minassian, Arona N Diaye, Vernon Reid, Hukwe Zawose)
  9. Rivers (feat. Vernon Reid, Marta Sebestyen, Karl Wallinger)
  10. Jijy (feat. Arona N Diaye, Rossy, Jah Wobble)
  11. Big Blue Ball (feat. Peter Gabriel, Manu Katch??, Karl Wallinger)

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Free Music Review: Big Blue Ball
Hit: 4 Stars

If you like Peter Gabriel and like the music he's been putting out on his Real World label you'll love this. Good music and a great variety of artists. Recommended.

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Big Blue Ball is the long-awaited, much-anticipated collection of stand-out tracks culled from the all-star, pan-global collaborations that took place over three years of Peter Gabriel s legendary Recording Week gatherings at his state-of-the-art Real World Studios in the English countryside.

Produced by Peter Gabriel, Karl Wallinger (of World Party, Waterboys) and Stephen Hague (Pet Shop Boys, OMD), it s a nonstop stream of poignant, sterling performances by a truly stellar lineup of artists-- including Gabriel, Wallinger, Sinead O Connor, Natacha Atlas, Iarla O Lionaird and James McNally (both of Afro Celt Sound System), Papa Wemba, Joseph Arthur, Tanzania s late music legend Hukwe Zawose, Hungary s Marta Sebestyen, Tim Finn, Cameroonian starFrancis Bebey, Vernon Reid, Justin Adams, Jah Wobble, Billy Cobham, Rupert Hine, gospel group the Holmes Brothers, flamenco guitarist Juan Canizares, Japanese percussionist Joji Hirota, and many more...in all totaling 75 artists from over 20 countries.

It s like a wall of sound coming at you, listening to the planet from outer space, says Karl Wallinger of the final mix. It s a real world-view of music, a snapshot of the music-making continents at that time. It s a more apt time to release it now than ever before. I think it s actually gathered weight with time, because it s people from all over the world playing together, just getting on together. There s an iconic aspect about that which is probably more important now. Things have become more partisan. It s a timely reminder of how you can cooperate.

Big Blue Ball s songs were created and recorded between 1991 and 1995, but the album has been an active work-in-progress at Real World ever since, a labor of love with ace producer Stephen Hague working closely with Peter Gabriel and Karl Wallinger. Holding the disparate elements in place is the powerful backbone of big drum tracks underpinning many of the songs. Wallinger says, Everyone was in orbit around this groove, and there is a universal language of dance, of dance grooves. That groove is the one bit that s non-denominational on the album.

Says Peter Gabriel, It s a fine wine ready to be drunk. It was the most fun music making I ve ever had. I d love to do it again.

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