Peter Gabriel Back To Front Dvd

In 2012, Peter Gabriel took to the stage one time over again, embarking on the kind of tour that few artists are afforded the opportunity to without also having to navigate a huge dose of irony. Rather than touring to promote a new album, Gabriel was celebrating the 25th anniversary of the highly influential, memorable, and ofttimes-referenced album 'So,' performing every song on the release in its entirety (as well as a handful of other Gabriel hits). With 'Back to Front,' the often experimental musician engaged in some other experiment of sorts: to see how the album, every bit a whole, worked a quarter century later – both as a piece of popular music revisited, and equally a new highly technical stage product.

Just this isn't some kind of Lucasian tinkering with something many regard equally perfect but the way it is. Instead, as it looks to the past, 'Back to Forepart' works more equally an exploration into how an anthology like 'So' managed to come together in the first place, and equally such, the actual presentation of the evidence – i.eastward., the way Gabriel and his band's performance is cleaved up into three singled-out acts – is intended to exist representative of the artistic process, moving the production from intangible, unfinished creation to the stylized precision of material that has endured for more than 2 decades.

The concert was filmed live in London over two nights, and features Gabriel reuniting with the bandmates who collaborated with him during the original 'So' tour betwixt 1986 and 1987. He welcomes guitarist David Rhodes, keyboardist David Sancious, drummer Manu Katché, and bassist Tony Levin to the phase later he and Levin perform a stripped down and purposely unfinished rendition of a new vocal titled 'Daddy Long Legs.' The intention is for the concert to begin, as Gabriel's ain artistic process might: working out the kinks of a song to see where it may i day end up. It's a clever way to brainstorm a concert such as this, as it creates a sense of transparency between the artist and his audience, while as well showing a sort of vulnerability – in the sense that something incomplete is beingness tested and could wind upwardly a total disaster – that feels uncommon for someone of Gabriel's stature and, especially, for a concert of this magnitude.

One time the entire crew (and some fill-in singers) is present, the presentation moves to a more than familiar place, segueing first into 'Come Talk to Me' and and then the easily recognizable 'Shock the Monkey.' As he and his band move their way through the list of songs, including the moving 'Solsbury Colina' and the darkly atmospheric 'Ruddy Rain,' the intensity of the product increases, gradually underlining the impact of each performance with mounting levels of theatricality. By the fourth dimension the show has moved through 'Sledgehammer' and finally turned the corner on the showstopper 'In You Eyes,' 'Back to Front' essentially works as a crash-grade on Gabriel's influence on popular music.

Some performers can do a lot with very footling, bringing a unique kind of honesty to a performance that delivers ability in a very small package. Here, Gabriel demonstrates how one can practise even more than with a lot. 'Back to Front end' is incredibly theatrical from beginning to end, right downward to the industrial jumpers worn by anybody on phase that makes the ensemble await a piffling like futuristic sanitation workers. Sure, some of it – especially Gabriel'due south double-fisted-hammer-move with the mic during 'Excavation in the Dirt' – may experience too stagy, besides pretentious, or besides much, just it's all but a part of the evidence'due south superbly counterbalanced sense of showmanship. That understanding of delivery and presence plays upwards the notion that Gabriel should exude a certain amount of confidence (given that he'south performing arguably his best cloth) and that, in order to give the audience a takeaway greater than "I saw Peter Gabriel," there needs to be a niggling risk, and a lot of demonstrative performances.

Hither, Gabriel and his terrific drove of material manage to offer a great bargain of both.

The Blu-ray: Vital Disc Stats

'Back to Front: Peter Gabriel: Alive in London' comes as a unmarried 50GB Blu-ray disc in the standard keepcase. The insert works a little similar the back of a CD (does anyone buy those anymore?) wherein the track listing is broken down for quick reference. Likewise included is a modest booklet featuring an overview of the tour itself and several photos of Gabriel and his band performing. The disc has two choices for audio, which should delight fans looking to play every bit a straight musical disc, as well as a concert video. To make things easier, the disc features an simple interface that displays all the tracks like capacity in a pic, without interrupting the concert, allowing viewers to move through songs without going back to the home menu.

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