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Track Listings
| 1. The Feeling Begins | |||
| 2. Gethsemane | |||
| 3. Of These, Hope | |||
| 4. Lazarus Raised | |||
| 5. Of These, Hope (Reprise) | |||
| 6. In Doubt | |||
| 7. A Different Drum | |||
| 8. Zaar | |||
| 9. Troubled | |||
| 10. Open | |||
| 11. Before Night Falls | |||
| 12. With This Love | |||
| 13. Sandstorm | |||
| 14. Stigmata | |||
| 15. Passion | |||
| 16. With This Love (Choir) | |||
| 17. Wall Of Breath | |||
| 18. The Promise Of Shadows | |||
| 19. Disturbed | |||
| 20. It Is Accomplished | |||
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is quite simply Peter Gabriel's masterpiece. It encapsulates all that is magical about his music; his love of rhythm, his ear for melody, his love of all musical forms, especially those of Africa. The music is eery and passionate, quiet and immense, bold and beautiful. No home is complete without a copy of this work; I bought it on vinyl in 1989 and then again on CD a few years later. It still moves me when i hear it today like it did 14 years ago.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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Over 12yrs ago, on hearing the Last Temptations of Christ; I subsequently felt compelled to review my appreciation of all that musically stirred and focused me. If you want to be moved emotionally and spiritually, this is an offering truly worthy of it’s title; Passion.
I have followed Gabriel’s music since his first solo album, and have my own varying levels of appreciation of his works. I am not some eerie or obsessive Gabriel fan who felt it most fitting that their musical ‘icon’ should have been invited to score the controversial Scorsese film. However, if another definition of baptism could be borrowed at this time, then I was truly immersed in a similar fashion when I first heard this passion-led soundtrack.
This really is a remarkable demonstration of spirit, performance & cultural diversity.
For me, without a shadow of a doubt, this album surpasses any collection of sounds ever attributed to Peter Gabriel. It would have been inconceivable that Gabriel could have bettered this work. As expected, his subsequent offerings although good in parts, are but poor relations that seem to scavenge on the inspired bones of Passion.
This album feels bigger than the emotions it so tirelessly haunts to visualise……..it’s even bigger than the composers themselves. My only frustration is in the albums ultimate credit. This is the work not of one man, but of a gathering of geniuses in the ultimate pursuit of excellence……of which they achieve with absolute divinity. The Feeling certainly begins…..and for me has remained commanding to this day. Congratulations to all those who contributed and to Peter Gabriel for making it happen. It is accomplished.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Distilling Eastern music for European ears. Peter Gabriel is a pioneer in the field of electronic and avant-garde music; here he created a masterpiece which helped to launch both his Realworld label, and became an essential album for many an 'ambient/electronic/world/eclectic' listener.
Sound-checked by both white label and established electronic artists [I can think of the Future Sound Of London offhand], this melds alternate-scale vocals [of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Youssou N'Dour among others] with his beloved [Nord] synths, awesome percussion [listen to the low-pass filters ending 'A Different Drum' without the hairs on the neck standing on end, I dare you] and abstract samples. A similar approach can be found on Damon Albarn's wonderful collection 'Mali Music'.
My personal favourite is the delicate melody of 'Of These, Hope', but this whole album flows as a journey, and easily surpasses any description of "soundtrack". I still haven't seen the film, and I won't; I luckily got to this first, and I don't intend to spoil things.
If you don't enjoy the cinematic intensity, the superb layered arrangements, the cross-cultural references, and the sheer musical talents on offer here, then I would suggest you need to listen once more with the lights down!
Sound-checked by both white label and established electronic artists [I can think of the Future Sound Of London offhand], this melds alternate-scale vocals [of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Youssou N'Dour among others] with his beloved [Nord] synths, awesome percussion [listen to the low-pass filters ending 'A Different Drum' without the hairs on the neck standing on end, I dare you] and abstract samples. A similar approach can be found on Damon Albarn's wonderful collection 'Mali Music'.
My personal favourite is the delicate melody of 'Of These, Hope', but this whole album flows as a journey, and easily surpasses any description of "soundtrack". I still haven't seen the film, and I won't; I luckily got to this first, and I don't intend to spoil things.
If you don't enjoy the cinematic intensity, the superb layered arrangements, the cross-cultural references, and the sheer musical talents on offer here, then I would suggest you need to listen once more with the lights down!
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Haunting masterpiece
With 'Passion' (1989), Peter Gabriel was at the forefront of popularising what had widely become termed as 'world music'. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Daniel Margrain
Simply awesome
Wonderfully atmospheric, really captures the mood of the time, the place and the story. Moving, even though I haven't even seen the film - makes me want to see it.
Published on 3 Sep 2009 by Stephen Oliver
Electronics and Jesus - quite a combination
The name of Peter Gabriel probably isn't that high up on most people's lists of innovators in electronic music (it certainly wasn't on mine until hearing this), yet on "Passion"... Read more
Published on 24 Jun 2009 by Colin Mccartney
Groundbreaking
I fell in love with this album when it first came out - and even today, two decades later it is still fresh, surprisingly original, and an essential part of my music collection. Read more
Published on 22 May 2009 by Steven Fouch
The best album in the world!
Having read all the other reviews I am actually stuck for words. Pretty much anything I write will not do justice to this wonderful piece of musical wizardry. Read more
Published on 19 Dec 2008 by Patrick H.
Stunning!
I only discoverd this album by accident in the late 90's whilst on a trip to Holland. Being a (relatively new) huge fan of Peter Gabriel's later albums (So, Us - both excellent by... Read more
Published on 27 Mar 2006 by Mr. Bg Parkinson
Gota Passion for Gabriel now
After the success of 'so' it would had been obvious that gabriel was going to go for a commercial success, but he defied everything by going for a soundtrack album. Read more
Published on 26 Nov 2003 by "dont_diss_rammstein"
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