- 2023-08-01
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MUSIC
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Peter Gabriel Releases New Song “Olive Tree (Bright-Side Mix)”
British singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel released a new song “Olive Tree (Bright-Side Mix)” on August 1, 2023.
The song is the eighth single off of his upcoming tenth studio album “i/o”.
It was written and produced by Peter Gabriel.
The track is another song about connection, both how we interact with nature and the other species around us, but also a greater sensitivity to the potential for broadening human experience.
“I don't think there was any deep significance to the title, but I can look around and try and invent some!,” Peter Gabriel said of the song. “In some ways I do think we are part of everything and we probably have means to connect and communicate with everything that we often shut off. We only want to see and listen to the things that seem important and relevant to us and shut out the noise of everything else when, probably, hidden in that noise there are all sorts of things that can help us realise our place in this future world.”
He added, “I wanted it to have some speed to it but I also wanted some mystery, too. I think it is a celebration in a way and there's a real sense of being alive.”- H7JrmwYj4g4
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Like the song “Road to Joy”, released in June, the new song is also part of a separate brain-related project that he is currently working on, as well as being partly influenced by his interest in the brain reading research of the likes of Jack Gallant's Lab at Berkeley and Mary Lou Jepsen's work at Openwater.cc.
Peter Gabriel said, “It feeds into this idea that we're no longer these islands that have our own private thoughts, that our thoughts are going to get opened up to the outside world. The lubrication that allows society to function is based, in part, on not being able to read what's going on in other people's minds, so unless we get more comfortable with how we really are, we're probably going to prefer to stay partly buried in our private worlds.”-
Photo by Lucy Cheyne - source : Spotify
