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イギリスのプログレッシヴ系ロックバンド、ジェネシスのメンバーとして活躍し、1975年のグループ脱退後も、25年以上にわたってソロ活動を続けるピーター・ガブリエルのソロ12thアルバム。重厚なコーラスを従えて歌う力強いミッドビートナンバー「グローイング・アップ」、ディープなミディアムサウンドが壮大に広がる1stカット「バリー・ウィリアムス・ショウ」など、「普通に意識している以外の部分で起きている物事のパターンや力を認識しようとするアルバム」と本人がコメントするとおり、万物の本質を鋭い視点からとらえた歌詞が、重厚なサウンドとともに心に迫ってくる。（速藤年正）
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That
Up exists at all is faintly miraculous. Over the past seven years, with guests including Youssou N'Dour, Peter Green, the Blind Boys of Alabama, and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Peter Gabriel has held recording sessions in Senegal, Atlanta, Singapore, the French Alps, and on a boat on the Amazon River, as well as at his own RealWorld studios. Having written and prepared over 150 songs, he's managed to cut this huge body of work down to just 10 tracks. There's a remarkable consistency and contemporary feel here that springs from a thoughtful layering process, with Gabriel combining tribal rhythms with complex backing vocals, samples, rock guitar, piano and--crucially--electronic effects. Indeed, the opener, "Darkness," begins with an aggressiveness that recalls the Prodigy, before hints of vulnerability and fear surface. Elsewhere, there is the dreamy "The Drop" and the orchestral heights of "Signal to Noise." Throughout, Gabriel uses water metaphors to put forward his positivist message. And it's all brilliant, sophisticated, and soulful. The man's a marvel and
Up is a masterwork.
--Dominic Wills
