Big Blue Ball News

A message from Real World Records :

Big Blue Ball is launched on Real World Records - an album of collaborations, a truly international, multi-artist project that grew from a series of extraordinary Recording Weeks in Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in Wiltshire, England back in the early 1990's. Real World Records: www.realworldrecords.com

Roll Out the Big Blue Ball Produced by Peter Gabriel, Karl Wallinger and Stephen Hague and mixed by Tchad Blake - Big Blue Ball features artists from a myriad of different cultures and nations - some well known names, others hidden gems of writing and performing talent... The Holmes Brothers, Jah Wobble, Billy Cobham, Joseph Arthur, Iarla Ó Lionáird, James McNally, Deep Forest, Hukwe Zawose, Natacha Atlas, Hossam Ramzy, Marta Sebestyen, Papa Wemba, Sinead O Connor, Joji Hirota, Guo Yue, Vernon Reid, Peter Gabriel, Karl Wallinger... and more. “After all these years, it's a fine wine ready to be drunk. It was the most fun music making I've ever had.” Peter Gabriel “It's like a wall of sound coming at you, listening to the planet from outer space. It's a real world-view of music, a snapshot of the music-making continents at that time.” Karl Wallinger Track listing: Whole Thing (Original Mix) (featuring Francis Bebey, Alexis Faku, Tim Finn, Peter Gabriel, Karl Wallinger, Andy White) Habibe (featuring Natacha Atlas, Hossam Ramzy, Neil Sparkes) Shadow (featuring Juan Canizares, Papa Wemba) Altus Silva (featuring Joseph Arthur, Ronan Browne, James McNally, Eric Mouquet, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Vernon Reid, Michel Sanchez) Exit Through You (featuring Joseph Arthur, Peter Gabriel, Karl Wallinger) Everything Comes From You (featuring Joji Hirota, Sevara Nazarkhan, Sinead O'Connor, Guo Yue) Burn You Up, Burn You Down ( featuring Billy Cobham, Peter Gabriel, The Holmes Brothers, Wendy Melvoin, Arona N'diaye, Jah Wobble) Forest (featuring Levon Minassian, Arona N'diaye, Vernon Reid, Hukwe Zawose) Rivers (featuring Vernon Reid, Marta Sebestyen, Karl Wallinger, Jah Wobble) Jijy (featuring Arona N'diaye, Rossy) Big Blue Ball (featuring Peter Gabriel, Manu Katche, Karl Wallinger) Big Blue Ball is released in the USA on 24 June 2008 and the rest of the World from 28 July 2008. For those in the UK Big Blue Ball will be available in advance as a special offer to those attending the WOMAD Festival, Charlton Park. Available as a download, on CD or 150-gram double vinyl album in limited edition blue at 45rpm or standard black at 33rpm.

Big Blue Ball CDs, Vinyl, T-shirts, bags and mugs are available from our store or alternatively from Amazon.com www.realworldrecords.com/bigblueball

Remix Big Blue Ball Remix 'Exit Through You' (featuring Joseph Arthur, Peter Gabriel, Karl Wallinger) at Real World Remixed