Everything Has Changed

Violins and woodwinds strictly set, double basses, static, almost dissonant sounds and then Peter Gabiel, quiet and very close. So opened his album "Scratch My Back". After some time Peter Gabriel takes a run-up to his famous emphatic outbursts, but on a sequential violin passage without beats, without the famous faces and without Toni Levin, and so ends also the first "piece of Heroes".
Great intro but now could go there once.
The second piece, "The Boy in the Bubble" begins at the piano. At the latest after the second chorus, after the second Spartan but very soulful use of two cellos come the first doubts. If the else? Where are the beats and Tony Levin.
The third piece. Another sequential violin passage. Have about Philip Glass or Steve Reich worked? "Everything has changed" with the vocal line takes the orchestra to ride, creates a dramatic scene, emphasis, pulse, but still no beats and no Tony Levin.
"Everything Has Changed", is not just a line of the chorus, it's the concept of the album, which presents the distinctive voice of Peter Gabriel in front of modern avant-garde orchestral music. The man with the broken voice wants to try something new. This is no light music, not the old sound, but it's the old Peter Gabriel. The theatrical storyteller, the actor, the playwright. The loud vocals are reminiscent of his songs "Signal To Noise" and "Rhythm Of The Heat", the quiet passages are also interpreted well tried. Throughout much of hear no reverb on the voice. The artificial pathos is not needed. The orchestral arrangements reminiscent of works by Steve Reich, but the compositions are songs with recurring verse and chorus.
That none of the songs written by Peter Gabriel is, I noticed very late. There are actually cover songs, but the term does not fit here. The text and the first voice of each template were taken and processed close to the original melody, tempo and pauses. The avant-sounding accompaniment, however, converts the songs to works that are not part of popular music.
So it is to explain that you heard at the beginning of David Bowie's "Heroes", but has heard nothing from this rock classics. With other songs like "Listening Wind", "Philadelphia" or "I Think It's Going To Rain Today" happened to me so. Respect!
"Scratch my back" is unmistakably a work by Peter Gabriel, conscious without Beats and without Tony Levin.