Passion Music For Last Tempta: Peter Gabriel: Amazon.ca: Music

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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To call Passion a pivotal recording in the development of world music would be a significant understatement. What makes Passion so undeniably important is its global reach and expert handling of what could've easily become polyglot babble. Vocalists Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Youssou N'Dour, and Baaba Maal bring strong Middle Eastern and African voices to the project, and Balkan textures come via the ney flute and doudouk. But Gabriel is the glue, offering electronic ambient flows between the multiple streams. Gabriel also brings something even less tangible: an awesome visual imagination that takes often seamless sounds and makes them impress the listener with picturelike colors and phrasing. This is, however, far more than an ambient global mix. The intertwined rhythms stand out, both on their own and as brushstrokes on a larger canvas. Never mind that Passion helped launch North American careers for N'Dour and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan--this is a stellar musical achievement by any standard. --Andrew Bartlett

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5.0 out of 5 stars Mesmerizing...feel it overcome you..., April 16 2005

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Catherine Mondou (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Passion Music For Last Tempta (Audio CD)

The first time I heard this soundtrack was in 1990 when I was only a teenager.
I remember the exact time and place as it had a profound impact on me. I remember the darkness of the house and the eerieness The Passion impacted on it.
To this day, I listen to this album with the same emotions, feeling as if Peter Gabriel's work, of unexplainable nature, was meant to bring us to a higher level.
This is intensity at its optimal.
Best listened to in moments of emotional and spiritual need, with the lights turned down and the mind wide open.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This is really, Jun 19 2004

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Brian Ogilby "Ogi" (Worcester, VT USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Passion Music For Last Tempta (Audio CD)

Dark and sad and a touch hopefull Passion shows more then ever why Peter Gabriel has always been a creative musical force. Gabriels synths not only hold most of the songs together but Gabrial plays more instruments then on his studio albums (synths, percussion, shakers, bass, whistle, flutes, surdu, doholla, counterbass, thats a dozen instruments!) and all with class. Of cource the musicians and vocalists Gabriel has selected are all stunning (Gabriel does some nice wordless singing himself) but they are merely performing his visionary compositions and arrangements. This is very much Gabriels show all the way and this is really his best soundtrack album.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Unforgettable, Jun 18 2004

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I own this cd for more than 10 years, and still, I love it, listen to it, and personaly, for me it is the best music to play in the background while painting. It inspires and opens long forgotten closed doors in mind.
As for the subject of this cd, it seems as though the past happens close to you, around you. It feels like it is telling the story without demanding you to take part in it.
This masterpiece is the only one which I loved so much the book, the movie, and the music.

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Published on April 18 2004 by Alejandro Lara

5.0 out of 5 stars To the angry Armenian....
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Published on April 13 2004