Finding a home with world music

Peter Gabriel's third and fourth albums, also self titled showed growing confidence with the artist taking control of production after affirming himself as Genesis' leading character. Foreign policy and South African politics two evocative singles on the third album, "Games without Frontiers" and "Biko", the former reaching no 4 in the UK charts in 1980. Following Live set in 1985, Gabriel hired Daniel Lanois to co-produce Birdy, the fifth studio album So a year later, which included the mega-hit Sledgehammer. Gabriel's work showed a greater adventure and experimentation than in Genesis days. Freed from commercial restraints, he embraced rock/avangarde themes with the help of Robert Fripp and Brian Eno. In recent years he grew ever inventive incorporating unusual rythms and sounds from factories, scrapyards and even smashing television screens to compliment his studio experimentation. The Top 20 hit"In your eyes"
remains my favourite and let's hope he visits the studio again with so much madness in this world to write about.




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