Peter
Gabriel/Big Blue Ball
Big Blue
Ball (2008)
Genre:
World Music
Today I
bring you guys a Peter Gabriel album
that sort of got lost in time, Pete started work on this project back in the
90’s and it has a ton of guest artist
like Vernon Reid, Sinead O’Conner, Deep Forest, Billy Cobham, Manu Katche… and
so when I finally got my hands on it I thought to myself this should be a world
music extravaganza but to my surprise it’s pretty mediocre for Peter Gabriel to
put out a sub par production like this, I guess that's way it isn't officially a Peter Gabriel album and he gave it the name Big Blue Ball, it’s pretty uninteresting, the songs are just
not there, no wonder these songs sort of sat around in Peter’s music vault for
more than a decade till he decided to finish them. The music in general is very
similar to Gabriels 90’s stuff, but this material just isn't not as good, at moments it sound
a little bit dated. One thing that gets me pist is that Vernon Reid one of my
favorite guitar player around is on more than one track but sonically he's
invisible, Peter really doesn’t take advantage of his guitar skills. So I’ll
only recommend this album for only diehard fans.
Overall: 43.5
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