Peter Gabriel reveals the first details of the new album “O/I”

Over a year after the publication of the album “I” (read our review here), Peter Gabriel He revealed that he was working on the sequel to the De Couco of 2023 ‘I/O’ on the contrary “.

The musician revealed the first details of his next record project in a chat for the new special of the British magazine dedicated to the re -edition of “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway”, sixth study work of the historic English group originally published in 1974 which will return to Deluxe edition on March 28th.

During the interview Peter Gabriel He did not offer more information from his new studio album, but together with his former companions in the genesis, Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks And Steve Hackettretraced the first days of the band. In the “Mojo” special, the history of the group from the meeting between Gabriel, Banks and Rutherford to the exclusive college of Charterhouse in Surrey, at the first tours in the United Kingdom aboard a chasm for the delivery of the bread, until the arrival of Phil Collins.

In offering an anticipation of the special dedicated to the Genesis, on the English magazine website there is also a passage of the memory of Collis of when he perceived the band’s first album, “Trespass”, recorded before his entrance, as “a soft pudding “. “It was something without form,” says Phil Collins in “Mojo”: “During the hearing we listened to some traces of ‘trespass’, and it was neither meat nor fish. There were harmonies that reminded me Crosby, Stills & Nashbut when they had to be more incisive, as in ‘The Knife’, it did not seem that they really believed it. “

During the interview Gabriel also retraces the deterioration of the relationship with Banks and recalls that, although he did not participate in the Genesis farewell concert at O2 Arena of London In March 2022, in a chat always for “Mojo” of 2023 he explained that he had felt he had to be present to attend the end of the journey of his former band. “Phil was no longer in great shape as they once did, but they did an excellent job,” Gabriel said: “For me to be there was a ritual of passage. I contributed to the birth of the Genesisso I wanted to be present at the end. “

The news comes almost a month after the presentation of Peter Gabriel of his new project “50:50”: “I have always loved to work with visual artists and, following the competition that we organized with stability at the time of the release of” I/O “, we are creating ’50: 50′ to encourage the creation of other collaborations of this kind,” explained the musician.