Big Blue Ball (Cover Option 2) (2008)

Product Summary Label: REAL WORLD RECORDS/RA UPC: 00884108014929 Release Date: 6/24/2008 Buy.com Sku: 208155157 Item#: M46SNT Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Whole Thing [Original Mix] - (with Alex Faku/Francis Bebey/Karl Wallinger/Andy White/Peter Gabriel/Tim Finn) ~ Big Blue Ball 2. Habibe - (with Natacha Atlas/Hossam Ramzy/Neil Sparkes) ~ Big Blue Ball 3. Shadow - (with Juan Canizares/Papa Wemba) ~ Big Blue Ball 4. Altus Silva - (with Deep Forest/Iarla O'Lionaird/James McNally/Joseph Arthur/Ronan Browne/Vernon Reid) ~ Big Blue Ball 5. Exit Through You - (with Joseph Arthur/Karl Wallinger/Peter Gabriel) ~ Big Blue Ball 6. Everything Comes From You - (with Richard Evans/Guo Yue/Joji Hirota/Sevara Nazarkhan/Sinead O'Connor) ~ Big Blue Ball 7. Burn You Up, Burn You Down - (with Arona N'Diaye/Jah Wobble/Peter Gabriel/The Holmes Brothers/Wendy Melvoin/Billy Cobham) ~ Big Blue Ball 8. Forest - (with Arona N'Diaye/Hukwe Zawose/Levon Minassian/Vernon Reid) ~ Big Blue Ball 9. Rivers - (with Karl Wallinger/Marta Sebestyen/Vernon Reid) ~ Big Blue Ball 10. Jijy - (with Arona N'Diaye/Jah Wobble/Rossy) ~ Big Blue Ball 11. Big Blue Ball - (with Karl Wallinger/Manu Katche/Peter Gabriel) ~ Big Blue Ball   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info BIG BLUE BALL is an ongoing collaboration shepherded by Peter Gabriel, World Party leader Karl Wallinger, and producer Stephen Hague. The basic tracks for these 11 songs were recorded at Gabriel's Real World studios between 1991 and 1995, during week-long sessions with special guests, including Sinead O'Connor, Tim Finn, Marta Sebestyen, Papa Wemba, Jah Wobble, gospel group the Holmes Brothers, members of Living Colour, Afro Celt Sound System, and dozens of other American, European, Asian, and African musicians. Pieced together and remixed in the 13 years following the last of these sessions, BIG BLUE BALL still sounds primarily like a Gabriel and Wallinger collaboration, with those singer-songwriters' eclectic sensibilities prevailing, although the guest singers and musicians are fully represented as well. BIG BLUE BALL is available as a digital download, a standard CD, a deluxe CD with enhanced packaging, and a vinyl LP.   Associated Artists and Works Various Artists Big Blue Ball ~ Various Artists Various Artists Big Blue Ball [Digipak] ~ Various Artists   Technical Info Release Date : 06/24/2008 Original Release Date : 2008 Catalog ID : 153 Label : Real World Records Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00884108014929   Professional Reviews Global Rhythm (Publication) (p.44) - "BBB's voices and instruments float in and out of the 11 songs like fragments of conversations pieced together to create poems."    Product Image