Limited edition numbered triple 180gm vinyl LP pressing housed in a gatefold sleeve, includes digital download. Passion - Music for The Last Temptation of Christ was released a year after Martin Scorsese's controversy-laden film and tends to be regarded as a work in it's own right rather than just being a movie soundtrack. It features additional music than was included in the film; this extra material was the result of Peter continuing to record and to resolve "unfinished ideas". It features additional music than was included in the film; this extra material was the result of Peter continuing to record and to resolve "unfinished ideas". The vinyl was cut by Matt Colton at Alchemy Mastering, mastered by Tony Cousins at Metropolis and overseen by Peter's main sound engineer Richard Chappell.
With this landmark soundtrack for the controversial 1989 Martin Scorcese film, Peter Gabriel helped usher in a whole new genre: the electronic world music album. True, ambient producer Eno and the new-music trumpeter Jon Hassell pioneered the approach in the early '80s, but Gabriel didn't merely recreate traditional sounds in the studio. He actually helped create an ongoing collaborative community of modernist world musicians like violinist Shankar, singers Baaba Maal, Youssou N'Dour and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the Qawwali singer from Pakistan whose estactic wail most Western listeners heard for the first time on the title track.
PASSION effectively evokes the ancient wind-parched landscapes of Palestine and North Africa (where the film was actually shot). Though there is prodigious use of drones and percussive tonal "washes," the music is too rooted in history and local culture to be considered either minimalist or new-age. Much like the film, the soundtrack situates Jesus Of Nazareth in a specific time and place through the discerning use of "source" melodies and instruments. In turn, the viewer-listener is able to envision His original mission some 2000 years later. This is no small miracle Gabriel and Scorcese have wrought.
Recorded at Real World Studios, London, England.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
- Released: 08/11/2017
- Format: Vinyl
- Genre: Folk, Rock
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Tracklist
| The Feeling Begins | 4:00 |
| Gethsemane | 1:23 |
| Of These, Hope | 4:05 |
| Lazarus Raised | 0:36 |
| Of These, Hope - Reprise | 1:06 |
| In Doubt | 2:07 |
| A Different Drum | 6:05 |
| Zaar | 4:44 |
| Troubled | 2:46 |
| Open | 3:18 |
| Before Night Falls | 2:16 |
| With This Love | 3:36 |
| Sandstorm | 2:55 |
| Stigmata | 2:24 |
| Passion | 7:36 |
| With This Love - Choir | 3:19 |
| Wall Of Breath | 2:25 |
| The Promise Of Shadows | 2:12 |
| Disturbed | 3:07 |
| It Is Accomplished | 3:30 |
| Bread And Wine | 2:23 |
