Peter Gabriel using Kronos, KARMA Kronos Software for tour

StephenKay · Post by **StephenKay** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 7:05 am

Ernie Applelips wrote:Did anyone see him when he was on the bill for The Stranglers notorious gig in Battersea Park 1978?

I remember him doing a song (can't remember which one) and during the instrumental part, every member of the band played every instrument. They were literally running around the stage replacing each other.

I'm sure (and hope) I didn't dream this.

Don't know about that, but it almost sounds like Gentle Giant (another one of my all-time favorite prog-rock bands). They used to do that in concert - cycle around and play each other's instruments.

StephenKay · Post by **StephenKay** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 7:05 am

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Kevin Nolan · Post by **Kevin Nolan** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 2:00 pm

Congratulations Steven - that is fantastic.

I'm also a big Peter Gabriel fan. His album Peter Gabriel 4 is one of my favourite albums. It was one of only a few revolutionary albums at the time featuring Farilight CMI (Peter was an early innovator of that instrument along with a very select group (of genuine innovators of the Fairlight) that also includes JMJarre (Zoolook), Kate Bush, and David Byrne (Talking Heads)).

The song San Jacinto from PG4 is perhaps my favourinte song of all time and heavily features the Fairlight - most notably their custom sample of breaking glass that forms the underlying sequence. I wonder if Karma will be used in such a vein?

His current orchestral version of San Jacinto is equally enigmatic; an for anyone interested you should check out Youtube where you can find an entire UK "Southbank Show" feature on Peter Gabriel making PG4 from the early 80's - it's very revealing.

Looking forward to hearing PG use Kronos / Karma on tour. If there's anyone who can exploit the depths of Karma surely its Peter Gabriel and his team?

Congratulations once again Stephen - a worthy marriage of artist and cutting artistic tools.

Kevin.

dhjdhj · Post by **dhjdhj** » Wed Sep 26, 2012 4:37 am

I was at the Gabriel show at jones beach, sitting quite near the front. I am wondering if they actually used any Karma stuff, I didn't notice anything that stood out as an example

iggymusic · Post by **iggymusic** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 5:31 am

I SAW his Show in PHilly Last Week.... sounded good

iggymusic · Post by **iggymusic** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 5:43 am

definitely no karma unless old fairlite samples were triggered with it

dhjdhj · Post by **dhjdhj** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 2:01 pm

I'm involved in a project that includes musicians who played with Gabriel on these early albums. It's actually called "The Security Project" in honor of PG4.

Larry Fast (who was the original synth/keyboard player with Gabriel) is a consultant to this project and provided terrific guidance on how the original sounds were created, including San Jacinto which we performed (see video link below, starting around 3:44). According to Larry, the underlying sound used for the San Jacinto loops was the Fairlight marimba sample. A lot of interesting processing was done to get the shimmery feel, which I duplicated as much as possible using the Audio Damage Discord plugin.

I'm using a Kronos quite heavily for many of the sounds (though for San Jancinto I just used the analog strings in it though)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG4R8VKdxRk

There's more about the project at our public facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Secu ... 4415042065

It's because of this project that I got very interested when I heard that they were going to use Kronos keyboards and KARMA.

Kevin Nolan wrote:
The song San Jacinto from PG4 is perhaps my favourinte song of all time and heavily features the Fairlight - most notably their custom sample of breaking glass that forms the underlying sequence. I wonder if Karma will be used in such a vein?

His current orchestral version of San Jacinto is equally enigmatic; an for anyone interested you should check out Youtube where you can find an entire UK "Southbank Show" feature on Peter Gabriel making PG4 from the early 80's - it's very revealing.

Kevin.

jeebustrain · Post by **jeebustrain** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 2:51 pm

dhjdhj wrote:I'm involved in a project that includes musicians who played with Gabriel on these early albums. It's actually called "The Security Project" in honor of PG4.

Larry Fast (who was the original synth/keyboard player with Gabriel) is a consultant to this project and provided terrific guidance on how the original sounds were created, including San Jacinto which we performed (see video link below, starting around 3:44). According to Larry, the underlying sound used for the San Jacinto loops was the Fairlight marimba sample. A lot of interesting processing was done to get the shimmery feel, which I duplicated as much as possible using the Audio Damage Discord plugin.

I'm using a Kronos quite heavily for many of the sounds (though for San Jancinto I just used the analog strings in it though)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG4R8VKdxRk

There's more about the project at our public facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Secu ... 4415042065

It's because of this project that I got very interested when I heard that they were going to use Kronos keyboards and KARMA.

Kevin Nolan wrote:
The song San Jacinto from PG4 is perhaps my favourinte song of all time and heavily features the Fairlight - most notably their custom sample of breaking glass that forms the underlying sequence. I wonder if Karma will be used in such a vein?

His current orchestral version of San Jacinto is equally enigmatic; an for anyone interested you should check out Youtube where you can find an entire UK "Southbank Show" feature on Peter Gabriel making PG4 from the early 80's - it's very revealing.

Kevin.

Holy s**t. This sounds fantastic. Imagine a double bill of you guys and The Musical Box!

Bart S. · Post by **Bart S.** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 5:21 pm

Incredible!

Sounds really awesome!!! Please come to Germany and play a complete Lamb lies down show

dhjdhj · Post by **dhjdhj** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 5:54 pm

The producers are working on several tour possibilities including a trip to Europe early next year but nothing is set up yet. But Lamb is not on the cards (other than a small medley) as the focus is really early Gabriel.

levioter · Post by **levioter** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 8:54 pm

Wooh !
Handsome !
Great job man !
Congratulation to all the band !
Sounds great !

Really thanks for sharing that with us !

Cheers

dhjdhj · Post by **dhjdhj** » Fri Sep 28, 2012 12:49 pm

Thanks --- appreciate it.

synthguy · Post by **synthguy** » Fri Sep 28, 2012 4:44 pm

I have to give some serious kudos to this project. Those first four albums were Peter Gabriel's quintessential creations, in my book, and when he subsequently went "poppier" with So, he diluted a lot of that spirit out of his music. I'm disappointed that he really hasn't done another "I Don't Remember," "Shock The Monkey" or "Modern Love."

I'm especially disappointed that the essence of the first Gabriel album has never been recaptured. I know it was his first transition to being a solo act with a lot of "The Lamb" vibe to it, and Bob Ezrin did a terrific job making it sound like a huge "live" album. The writing and performing were top notch, and it had a curious balance of being a straight ahead rock band with that weird twist of something otherworldly just under the surface.

I'm very much looking forward to what comes of this.

dhjdhj · Post by **dhjdhj** » Fri Sep 28, 2012 6:54 pm

Thanks --- we actually did about 16 songs taken from those 4 albums and we'll probably add a few more although I don't yet know which ones. Some of the other songs we did can be found on YouTube, taken by audience members.

You should post your comments on the facebook page so that the others can see them, including management. We all believe there's a much bigger audience out there for this stuff than people think.

jeremykeys · Post by **jeremykeys** » Fri Sep 28, 2012 9:07 pm

This thread is just chock full of amazing stuff! Congratulations to Stephen and everybody else.
Someone mentioned "The Musical Box". For those who don't know, they are Canada's premier Genesis tribute/ I saw them performing "the Lamb Lies Down" and it was fantastic. Combine that with a Peter Gabriel tribute and you'd have a killer show.