Peter Gabriel - Secret World Live
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Free Music Notes for Secret World Live
Free Music Review: Extraordinary
Hit: 5 Stars
If you are not a Peter Gabriel fan then you will be after listening to this double album. If you are a fan and don't have this album, then buy it now. The live versions of Come Talk To Me, and Blood of Eden are more stirring and passionate than on the studio albums. This album from the 1993 World Tour is the standard by which other live albums must be compared. Kudos to David Taraskevics for superb recordings. You are a recording engineer par excellence. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
The band is sensational to say the least. Tony Levin on bass is superb as is Jean Claude Naimro on keyboards, David Rhodes on guitar and Shankar on violin. Manu Katche who has played with Sting and Eric Clapton, replaces Jerry Marotta on drums and is awesome.
In case you do not know, these recordings are from the large venue shows in the United States and Europe. Paula Cole sings primary backup vocals during the European tour and she is wonderful. Check out her albums such as This Fire, Harbringer, and Amen. Other backup singers include Papa Wemba, Reddy Mela amissi and Styno Mubi Matadi. This is World music at it's best.
There are so many great songs and performances that it is extremely difficult to anoit one or two as best. Besides classics like Come Talk To Me and Blood of Eden, other stirring tracks are Red Rain, Diggin In the Dirt, Secret World, In Your Eyes and Shaking the Tree. However, this is not to belittle the other tracks. This is an outstanding double album from beginning to end.
I have watched the DVD and think the audio tracks are better mixed on this version. However, the DVD is enjoyable to watch for the visuals and performances. But, I recommend this version if money is a factor. I have a top-of-the line NHT audio system (speakers, pre-amp, amp, crossover and secondary amp for sub-woofer) and this album is better than most other live concerts that I have heard, The recordings and mixes are simply spectacular. Even if you are not a Peter Gabriel fan, this is a treasure.
Free Music Review: A concert larger than life: keeping the Gabriel flame burnin
Hit: 5 Stars
Back in 1993, the world tour following the release of the long-awaited "US" album by Peter Gabriel came in three different 'flavors' (just like with Pizzas): Large, Medium and Small. The small flavor would occur in places where Peter and his band would happen to play some of the songs from the track list, with any available instruments. The medium flavor would be like concert I had the opportunity of seeing in my home country (Venezuela): the band with their own instruments, playing the entire set, and using some of the visual effects that the larger production boasted (I have to say this 'mid-sized' version of the concert almost got me killed of a heart-attack -I'm not joking- due to all the emotions I experienced throughout it). The large 'flavor' was the one most northern hemisphere countries had a chance to enjoy, and what ended up registered in the video and the live album you're reading about here.The band lineup is just as good as the one in Peter's previous live album 'Plays Live.' The drums, previously played by Jerry Marotta, are played by Mounsieur Manu Katche (also played with Sting, Eric Clapton and others); Jean Claude Naimro took the place of David Sancious (from the live So period); David Rhodes, Tony Levin, and -of course- PG were still part of the line-up; and Paula Cole (now famous for her albums Harbinger, This Fire and Amen) did beautiful backing vocals.
Particularly amazing are: the opening 'Come Talk to Me,' a true display of musicianship meant to get the crowd off their feet; ' the sinplicity and beauty of the rendition of 'Red Rain' and the musical strength of 'Digging in the Dirt,' 'Secret World' and 'In your Eyes,' bound for making the hairs in the back of your neck stand up.
Whether you've been following Peter Gabriel for his theatricals (when performing), his lyrics, his music, or a combination of all of the above, this concert simply belongs in your collection; no questions asked. Once you have it, you'll thank yourself for getting it!
Free Music Review: Top Notch Live Album
Hit: 5 Stars
"Secret World" is the second of two live albums released by Gabriel, and by far the better of the two. The first, "Plays Live," was released twelve years earlier, and "Secret World" reveals an artist who had made tremendous strides in the meantime.Truly great live albums should offer versions of the songs on them that are either substantially altered and/or substantially improved from the originals. For the most part, that's what Gabriel includes here. He was backed on his 1993 by a crack group of world musicians, some of them who participated in his "Us" studio album. As such, it is the best meld of rock and roll with world music since Paul Simon's "Graceland." "Us" is represented by seven of the double album's fifteen tracks and nearly all of the songs top the six minute mark. In fact, if there is a drawback to this album, it's that "Solsbury Hill" is the only one pre-"So" (1986) song to make the playlist. True, Gabriel most likely did not want to repeat himself extensively from "Plays Live," but this record is so good, it leaves you begging to hear the versions of his earlier material as he played them on this tour.
But that's a minor quibble. This is a fantastic live album that also, unfortunately, represents the only rock album Gabriel has released in the last decade. Here's hoping we haven't heard the last of him.
Free Music Review: If only I got to see him during this live concert......
Hit: 5 Stars
I never got to see Peter Gabriel in concert during his now revered Secret World Tour since I was far too young to understand the music artists during that time. However I did get the next best thing with his Growing up Tour but that's for a separate review later.
This double-CD set is of a concert performance from November of 1993 in Italy and compiles the best known songs he did up to this point including several from his then-new album "US" from a year before. But also included are the currently rare B-Side "Across The River" which was on a world music sampler from two decades before but the live version on this Live album is entrancing and surreal like I've never heard before. I especially love the last minute and a half of this version of the song as it goes from eerie and dramatic to almost optimistic and energetic before ending.
The set concludes with a stunning performance of his best ballad "In Your Eyes". The live performance of this concert song goes for a whopping 11 and a half minutes and is a beautiful rendition of the "Special Remix" version of this marvelous classic with a slighly different chord structure and different ending. I would even for far as to say that I even like this more than the album version from "SO".
Highly recommended live CD. Live albums I odn't think get any better than this.
Free Music Review: A spiritual journey of healing
Hit: 5 Stars
Peter Gabriel's Secret World came at the right time for a lot of people who came to the age when spiritual and personal questioning begins. For me, I went through an ugly divorce and self-imposed isolation far from home in the far reaches of Northern British Columbia. I needed to reconsider my life and discover truths from within my past experiences. While going through my healing path I discovered this CD in the town's only music store. I liked Peter Gabriel and this new release was about his latest concert tour, the one I missed, so I bought it and gave it a listen to. From the beginning it is a cracking and dissolving of hard protective layers and outer shell revealing the joyous and celebratory musical expressions within. I have never been so touched and fullfilled by a simple CD recording. Throughout Secret World I found anguish and release, "Digging in the Dirt", "Blood of Eden", "San Jacinto" and hope and celebration with "Don't give up" and "In your eyes".
Paula Cole's vocals are awsome, Tony Levin's bass strums go right through me, Shankar's violin create a mysterious and subconscious element and Peter Gabriel's lyrics and musical arrangements are genious.
Buy this CD, it is a must for any lover of music and those in need of a healing.