The lyrics may be unfinished and more extensive, but it all comes close to the final version: the culminating arrangement and the slower ending. Here, in the middle of the track, the closing section of the song can be heard in an almost familiar arrangement. Underneath we still hear the demo rhythm loop.
The sound grows with the next cut and approaches the finished original, though the chorus, which Peter nearly shouts out, is still very different. A groovy, unknown piano solo is next (is that really Peter?). After a cut a rhythm guitar comes in and Gabriel sings completely unknown lyrics to a completely unknown swinging verse melody „so crazy here, so crazy here – we keep our eyes closed.“ The chorus that follows is more familiar despite the lack of lyrics. Gabriel sings a long „red rain“, then a deeper, solemn „on a red, red sea“. Stage two begins with an outlandish, driving rhythm look. Stage one is a first draft of the melody, rough and unready, but recognizable. The tracks on this CD are much longer than the originals on So – hardly any of them are under six minutes long while the longest clocks in at over ten minutes. This means that the songs on the album are not illustrated all in the same way – which is good, and probably also a necessity. It also happens that the tracks switches between two of them. These three stages are present in most songs on So DNA with at least one sample, sometimes with several samples. Various ideas, detours, and developments are tried out and the ideas are steadily condensed. The third stage is where the final arrangement comes together. Some of the musical elements that occur here make it to the final mix. A rhythm track of various degrees of sophistication may be running along. Peter plays piano or synthesizer and is accompanied by Lanois and/or Rhodes on guitar. In the second stage details are worked out. This is when basic compositional structures are worked out, usually without proper lyrics: Gabriel sings half sentences and sounds, a grammelot he styles „Gabrielese“. The first is Gabriel alone at the piano, occasionally accompanied by a beatbox. This is saying something, particularly if you consider that he worked comparatively fast on So.Įach song on So DNA moves through three stages.
You begin to understand what it is that keeps Gabriel so occupied when he is recording a song and why it takes him so infinitely song. This is a most interesting approach which offers a detailed look into the way Peter Gabriel works, and a truly special CD in the So25 deluxe boxset. For every single song on the album several development stages have been combined into one more or less consecutive song so that you get to hear four, five, six, sometimes even more stages of each song. So DNA is nothing more and nothing less than a deep look into how the songs on So evolved.
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User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License additional terms may apply.Peter Gabriel - So DNA The evolution of So – a special disk in the deluxe edition Also, twice a grating sound can be heard, probably made by scraping a guitar pick up and down the lower (bass) strings of an acoustic guitar. In accordance with Gabriel's penchant for unusual instrumentation, it features a xylophone solo about halfway through the song. In fact, the song was built upon a simple drum pattern that Gabriel asked Phil to play while he wrote the words and the music.
Like the rest of the album, this song features the "gated drum" sound created by Hugh Padgham and Phil Collins and contains no cymbals. The phrase "I like." is repeated throughout the song, indicating that the burglar was not pressured into his actions, but instead intrudes homes simply for the thrill of committing a crime. It is the first track off his third eponymous album with the description of a break-in told through the eyes of the burglar, or "Intruder". "Intruder" is a song written and performed by English musician Peter Gabriel.