“OVO” is being released on vinyl for the first time, as part of this year’s Record Store Day which takes place on Saturday 12 April. The release marks the album’s 25th anniversary.
This Limited Record Store Day Edition comes in a gatefold jacket, with printed inner sleeves and a 20-page booklet with ‘The Story of OVO’ (not shown below). The album has been mastered for vinyl by Matt Colton at Metropolis and is pressed to 180g vinyl, blue and orange. Also contains a hi-res download code.
“OVO” is Peter Gabriel’s soundtrack to the Millennium Dome Show in London, the 160-artist extravaganza that underwent 999 performances during the 365 days in 2000 that the Dome was open. Helping to tell the story of three generations of the same family living through three distinct eras – the past, the present, the future – Gabriel’s soundtrack accordingly draws from deep, long-held tradition and from contemporary grooves.
The album boasts a stellar cast, including Cocteau Twin Elizabeth Fraser, Neneh Cherry, Paul Buchanan from The Blue Nile and Iarla Ó Lionáird as well as Jocelyn Pook, Will Gregory, BT, The Dhol Foundation and The Black Dyke Band.
Some of the tracks from “OVO” have become fixtures of the Gabriel canon and regular live favourites, among them “Downside-Up, Father, Son” and “The Tower That Ate People.”
Watch a short film about the music of the Millenium Dome Show through the YouTube player below:
