Big Blue Bumpspark*

Peter Gabriel fans know frustration. Innovative work takes time and there was a ten-year wait between his 1992 album Us and his last album, Up, in 2002. Gabriel’s distribution label, Real World Records, released an album today that is more than ten years in the making. Gabriel’s state of the art Real World Studios in Wiltshire England were conceived as a lab where artists from around the world could bumpspark their talents. Big Blue Ball collects the best results from encounters that took place in the early Nineties. It has taken them this long to sort through all the material that was produced.

Harmonius Tension

The New York Times posted a review of last evening's Raising Sand concert at Madison Square Garden and the ongoing bumpspark of bluegrass and Led. Alison Krauss and Robert Plant’s “chemistry springs partly from contrast; even the most harmonious moments convey a subtle, fruitful tension.”