Peter Gabriel Passion-The Last Temptation Of Christ Soundtrack CD

Remastered. Score For Last Temptation Of Christ.

Personnel includes: Peter Gabriel (various instruments); Youssou N'Dour, Baaba Maal, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (vocals); David Rhodes (guitar); Vatche Housepian, Antranik Askarian (Armenian doudouk); Shankar (double violin); Kudsi Erguner (ney flute); Robin Canter (oboe, coranglais); Mustafa Abdel Aziz, Musicians Du Nil (arghul); John Hassell (trumpet); Nathan East (bass); Massamba Dlop (talking drum); Manny Elias (octabans, surdu, skins), Doudou N'Daiye Rose, Fatala, Billy Cobham, Manu Katche, Djalma Correa (percussion); Hossam Ramzy (finger cymbals, tabla, dufs, tambourines, triangle, mazhar); Mahmoud Tabrizi Zadeh (kementche); David Bottrill (drone mix); David Sancious (background vocals).
Recorded at Real World Studios, London, England.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Personnel includes: Peter Gabriel (vocals, arranger, flute, whistle, piano, synthesizer, bass, dohollah, shaker, surdu, percussion, samples); Youssou N'Dour, Baaba Maal, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (vocals); David Rhodes (guitar, E-bow); Shankar (violin); Kudsi Erguner (ney); Robin Canter (oboe, coranglais); Jon Hassell (trumpet); David Sancious (Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards, background vocals); Nathan East (bass); Billy Cobham (drums, tambourine, percussion); Hossam Ramzy (tabla, cymbals, mazhar, tambourine, triangle); David Bottrill (tambourine); Manu Katche (percussion).
Recorded at Real World Studios, England. Includes liner notes by Peter Gabriel.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Personnel includes: Peter Gabriel (vocals, arranger, flute, whistle, piano, synthesizer, bass, dohollah, shaker, surdu, percussion, samples); Youssou N'Dour, Baaba Maal, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (vocals); David Rhodes (guitar, E-bow); Shankar (violin); Kudsi Erguner (ney); Robin Canter (oboe, coranglais); Jon Hassell (trumpet); David Sancious (Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards, background vocals); Nathan East (bass); Billy Cobham (drums, tambourine, percussion); Hossam Ramzy (tabla, cymbals, mazhar, tambourine, triangle); David Bottrill (tambourine); Manu Katche (percussion).
Recorded at Real World Studios, England. Includes liner notes by Peter Gabriel.
Passion is in actuality Peter Gabriel's soundtrack to the Martin Scorsese film The Last Temptation of Christ, retitled as a result of legal barriers; regardless of its name, however, there's no mistaking the record's stirring power. Like much of Gabriel's solo work, the album is a product of his continuing fascination with world music, which he employs here to create an exceptionally beautiful and atmospheric tapestry of sound perfectly evocative of the film's resonant spiritual drama; inspired by field recordings collected in areas as diverse as Turkey, Senegal, and Egypt, Passion achieves a cumulative effect clearly Middle Eastern in origin, yet its brilliant fusion of ancient and modern musics ultimately transcends both geography and time. Remarkably dramatic, even visual, it is not only Gabriel's best film work but deserving of serious consideration as his finest music of any kind; equally worthwhile is Passion: Sources, which assembles the original native recordings which served as his creative launching pad. ~ Jason Ankeny
With this landmark soundtrack for the controversial 1989 Martin Scorcese film, Peter Gabriel helped usher in a whole new genre: the electronic world music album. True, ambient producer Eno and the new-music trumpeter Jon Hassell pioneered the approach in the early '80s, but Gabriel didn't merely recreate traditional sounds in the studio. He actually helped create an ongoing collaborative community of modernist world musicians like violinist Shankar, singers Baaba Maal, Youssou N'Dour and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the Qawwali singer from Pakistan whose estactic wail most Western listeners heard for the first time on the title track.
PASSION effectively evokes the ancient wind-parched landscapes of Palestine and North Africa (wEntertainment Weekly (7/12/02, pp.84-5) - "...Nicely rounds out his catalog...revealing a surprisingly logical progression...Gabriel sharpens his writing and expands his sonic scope with every release..." Rating: B+
Q (6/02, p.137) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Beautiful...worthy of its subject..."
Muzik (12/00, p.59) - Included in Muzik's "Top 10 Electronic Soundtracks" - "...Mixes North African rhythms and exotic instrumentation through a Fairlight to create deeply evocative and original music..."
Mojo (Publisher) (6/02, p.126) - "...A cross-fertilisatory instrumental triumph..."