| I/O | ||||
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| Studio album by Peter Gabriel | ||||
| Released | TBA | |||
| Recorded | April 1995 - present | |||
| Label | Geffen Virgin Real World |
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| Producer | Peter Gabriel | |||
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I/O is the yet-to-be-released tenth studio album by Peter Gabriel. It was initially planned as the follow-up to his 2002 album, Up. No release date has been announced.
The history of I/O is closely connected to that of making the album Up, which notoriously took Gabriel almost 10 years to complete, and some of the songs being first recorded during the Us recording sessions. After the Secret World Live World Tour Gabriel spent much of the 1990s writing new material, and in interviews circa 2002 he said that four albums would come out of this period of writing[1][2] (he reportedly wrote and prepared over 130 songs during this time, of which ten found their way onto Up).[3] These four albums are most likely his millennium project OVO, the Rabbit-Proof Fence soundtrack Long Walk Home, Up, and finally I/O (short for Input/Output).
Originally the album was set to be released in 2004,[4] or 18 months apart from Up, yet extensive touring (the Growing Up Live and Still Growing Up Live tours in 2003 and 2004) pushed the release far ahead.
According to a Rolling Stone magazine article, Gabriel has 150 songs in various stages, which he has been working on with engineer Richard Chappel and percussionist Ged Lynch.[5] He has also talked about the possibility of completing the songs, arranging them for a band, touring first and only then recording and releasing them.[5] He has also said of a tour possibility: "I would like to try maybe just me and a percussionist, or a percussionist and bass. It's good sometimes to let go of your crutches."[5]
As of January 2009: Gabriel, in the last quarter of 2008 (via his monthly Moon Club Video Updates [6]), mentioned that he has been back in the studio on a more regular basis, shifting focus toward the recording of I/O and his covers project Scratch My Back. It is still unclear how much energy has been spent on I/O as Peter has disclosed very little information on it, favouring Scratch My Back, which was released in early 2010. Much of I/O will be based on the "130 ideas" from Peter's recording sessions over the past few years.
On February 2010, in an interview for The Daily Telegraph Gabriel stated: "...I'd love to try doing a joy record at some point. What I want to do with the next one is make it really up, like disco.".[7]
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