Peter Gabriel

No other western musician has had as much influence on the popularization of world music as Peter Gabriel. His WOMAD Festival began in 1982 and in 1989 he founded Real World Records. On Secret World Live he elevates world music fusion to high art. Many of his hits are tricked-out here with African vocal choirs and percussion, while "Blood of Eden" is a gorgeous duet with Paula Cole and "Across the River" is sonic poetry. Bassist Tony Levin and drummer Manu Katche, both long-time Gabriel collaborators, form a particularly potent rhythm section on this night.

It's a rare moment when an artist takes his established, even iconic work and makes it still
stronger, but Peter Gabriel's live two-CD set Secret World Live is just such a moment.
Recorded in Modena, Italy, during a January 1994 performance on his Secret World tour,
the album and the concurrent video release bring songs threaded together by the images
of earth and water into a cycle that explores relationships between men and wo... More >