- published: 07 Oct 2015
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Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, musician and humanitarian activist who rose to fame as the original lead singer and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving Genesis in 1975, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career, with "Solsbury Hill" his first single. His 1986 album, So, is his most commercially successful, and is certified triple platinum in the UK and five times platinum in the U.S. The album's biggest hit, "Sledgehammer", won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards, and it remains the most played music video in the history of MTV.
Gabriel has been a champion of world music for much of his career. He co-founded the WOMAD festival in 1982. He has continued to focus on producing and promoting world music through his Real World Records label. He has also pioneered digital distribution methods for music, co-founding OD2, one of the first online music download services. Gabriel has been involved in numerous humanitarian efforts. In 1980, he released the anti-apartheid single "Biko". He has participated in several human rights benefit concerts, including Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour in 1988, and co-founded the WITNESS human rights organisation in 1992. Gabriel developed The Elders with Richard Branson, which was launched by Nelson Mandela in 2007.
Operated by Sam Irl (Jazz & Milk Recordings / https://soundcloud.com/sam-irl) Edited by Gerhard Senz (http://www.quadramat.com/) Produced by Wavemeister (http://www.wavemeister.net/) Fairlight audio recorded in 24 Bit with an Apogee Symphony I/O Soundcard & Pro Tools without any post-processing, compression or limiting. © Wavemeister Pfitscher KG, Vienna 2015
The 'Mother' of all samplers. The technology that today is used world wide to compose sampled sounds started with the The Fairlight CMI. Featured on the program 'This Week' from ABC-TV Australia (1980) and is demonstrated by one of the designers Pete Vogel and composer Michael Carlos playing his composition of the theme for TV series "Timewarp".
French documentary about Peter Gabriel demonstrating his new toy - The Fairlight CMI. He also talks about the song The Rythmn of the Heat which used the Fairlight extensively.
What do you call musicians like Com Truise? He seems easy enough to pin down—throw out some words like "nostalgia," "synth-wave," "eighties," and "electro-funk" and you'll scrape by—but to be truly insightful about his music is tough, because art that is so blatantly referencing certain things in a certain way while also making them weird and new and unique is confusing. How do you classify something that is so obviously both vintage and current but is too fun to call postmodern? Release details here: http://ghostly.com/releases/fairlight
A revamp of my most successful YouTube video. This video consists entirely of sounds from the Series III factory library which I ported some of over to Kontakt (no additional sounds from Prosonus, in other words), complete with sound names. Terminator 2 soundtrack fans may recognize some of these sounds, though some samples were also recycled by other synth brands, most notably Korg.
Fairlight CMI 30A http://www.proaudiostar.com
This is (what I believe to be) the first live performance from the Pet Shop Boys. Notice how on the video wall there are two main shows. One is a video playback sequence whilst theother is the video output from he Fairlight CMI. I've looked at this again and again and the Page R sequencer seems to match exactly the sound being produced. I is rumoured that both Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe were incredibly worried about this live performance as the Fairlight's operating system was known to be somewhat flaky. Add two of them on stage and who knows what would happen. As well as the video monitor screens, you can sometimes see the two Fairlight machines in shot in the background. PSB were known for using the Fairlight CMI as the basis for percussion on their tracks.
A walkthrough of the ZX Spectrum game, Fairlight (48K Version). From the recording originally sent to http://www.rzxarchive.co.uk/ . Recorded using "rollback", a feature of the emulator which allows you to mark a point, which you can then roll back to later if you get in trouble, and try again. More info. on the channel "About" page: https://www.youtube.com/user/rzxarchive/about
1983 Today Show with Keith Emerson and the Fairlight CMI
Awaken under the sky
Clear sky, but so cold
Where the sky grows
The angels mourn
Their hearts are torn
Cold sky, my empty home
Faces, lost and empty shapes
You among the bitter lies
Our time is passing by
Beneath the cold grey sky
The rotting begins from inside
The light of your life,
The depths of your eyes
Unhide the horrible truth divine
We are lost to each other