Фирма 19eightyone / Cargo

7 years after the elaborate pop masterpiece "Gospel", Pieter Gabriel is back with a concept album about a love affair. However, "The Lost Art of Questioning Everything" is not a useful detoxification work, which is supposed to wash the ex-girlfriend out of the cardiovascular system. Gabriel's self-conception as a songwriter has matured too much for that, to appreciate form and relevance of his own doing so little. The basic structure of the 11 songs gathered here was already created during the relationship period. The track-sequencing of the album is based on a chronological relationship process: the introduction is light and easy; jumps through clouds of cotton candy ("1979"). After the high-altitude flight it becomes cloudy and gravity strikes ("Sonnet"). The emotional spectrum of the experience is passed through in phase and ends in a silent and therefore meaningful ambient piece. You don't lose, if you don't play. Nevertheless, a concept always works best when it does not show itself offensively. And in this sense Pieter Gabriel is fortunately clever enough to make the album work without knowing about the narrative bracket. Through the incorruptible quality of the individual songs, which at the same time trace the phases of a highly personal period of life linearly. In the orchestration sleep sleep sleep uses - as already on "Gospel" - everything that the musical world cultural heritage provides: Tennismatch samples and Beach Boys psychedelia ("The City"), Dream Pop ("Los Angeles", 1979"), Disco meets Uptempo Krautrock ("One for the Road") and Folk TripHop ("Blue Hell") are combined with a new self-confident handwriting to form an unmistakable pop design. It is the stylistic range that has so far made live performances impossible. Also in this sense Pieter Gabriel, the "underdog among the wunderkinder" (The Gap), will remain true to himself". Gabriel has pre-produced and arranged the album at home on his own. The voices and drums were recorded by Stefan Plattner-Deisenberger (formerly Naked Lunch, Nowhere Train). He also mixed and produced the album together with Gabriel. The house and yard drummer was Markus Perner from Garish. Further musical guests are Sophie Lindinger (Leyya), Lukas Lauermann, Emily Stewart, Katarina Maria Trenk (formerly Sex Jams), Isidora Krstic, Hanibal Scheutz (5/8erl in Ehr'n), Martin Mitterstieler (Nowhere Train) and David Schweighart (Schrecken, Voodoo Jürgens Band).

7 years after the elaborate pop masterpiece "Gospel", Pieter Gabriel is back with a concept album about a love affair. However, "The Lost Art of Questioning Everything" is not a useful detoxification work, which is supposed to wash the ex-girlfriend out of the cardiovascular system. Gabriel's self-conception as a songwriter has matured too much for that, to appreciate form and relevance of his own doing so little. The basic structure of the 11 songs gathered here was already created during the relationship period. The track-sequencing of the album is based on a chronological relationship process: the introduction is light and easy; jumps through clouds of cotton candy ("1979"). After the high-altitude flight it becomes cloudy and gravity strikes ("Sonnet"). The emotional spectrum of the experience is passed through in phase and ends in a silent and therefore meaningful ambient piece. You don't lose, if you don't play. Nevertheless, a concept always works best when it does not show itself offensively. And in this sense Pieter Gabriel is fortunately clever enough to make the album work without knowing about the narrative bracket. Through the incorruptible quality of the individual songs, which at the same time trace the phases of a highly personal period of life linearly. In the orchestration sleep sleep sleep uses - as already on "Gospel" - everything that the musical world cultural heritage provides: Tennismatch samples and Beach Boys psychedelia ("The City"), Dream Pop ("Los Angeles", 1979"), Disco meets Uptempo Krautrock ("One for the Road") and Folk TripHop ("Blue Hell") are combined with a new self-confident handwriting to form an unmistakable pop design. It is the stylistic range that has so far made live performances impossible. Also in this sense Pieter Gabriel, the "underdog among the wunderkinder" (The Gap), will remain true to himself". Gabriel has pre-produced and arranged the album at home on his own. The voices and drums were recorded by Stefan Plattner-Deisenberger (formerly Naked Lunch, Nowhere Train). He also mixed and produced the album together with Gabriel. The house and yard drummer was Markus Perner from Garish. Further musical guests are Sophie Lindinger (Leyya), Lukas Lauermann, Emily Stewart, Katarina Maria Trenk (formerly Sex Jams), Isidora Krstic, Hanibal Scheutz (5/8erl in Ehr'n), Martin Mitterstieler (Nowhere Train) and David Schweighart (Schrecken, Voodoo Jürgens Band).