9 Albums To Play When Doing Creative Work

4. Peter Gabriel €“ Passion: Music For The Last Temptation of Christ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87rNmVXzQrE Peter Gabriel has always been a proponent of world music; his label Real World and arts festival WOMAD has brought bands to the forefront that might never have been heard outside their native countries. But he also takes what he can from their music and incorporates it into his own. Gabriel actually released the album several months after the controversial film€™s release, choosing to tinker with and add his particular ambience to it, making it a much more cohesive and standalone work. It incorporates Armenian, Egyptian, Kurdish and Pakistani influences, jumping around as Gabriel sees fit. It won the 1990 Grammy for Best New Age album (Gabriel€™s first). It is largely instrumental, relying on ethnic sounds and instruments for most of its content, although it does contain snippets of Gabriel and other artists singing in nonsensical lyrics, which his fans have come to call €œGabrielese.€ This is one of those albums that you listen to pretty much straight through, though there are a few tracks that will catch your attention: Of These, Hope; A Different Drum; With This Love; It Is Accomplished. This is music for writers (as long as they€™re not writing about music) and deep thinkers.