Blu-ray Review: Gorgeous Transfer For Stunning ‘Peter Gabriel: Secret World Live’

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CHICAGO – “Secret World,” Peter Gabriel’s 1994 tour in support of his amazing 1992 release, “Us,” was a landmark musical event captured on a live 2-CD release and DVD release before but recently carefully remastered for a Blu-ray release called “Peter Gabriel: Secret World Live.” The transfer is beautiful and the pure genius of the concert has lost none of its power, nearly twenty years after its release. Moving, inventive, and mesmerizing, this is one of the best concert Blu-rays yet released.

Rating: 4.0/5.0

Synopsis:
Peter Gabriel’s Grammy Award winning film “Secret World Live” has now been newly restored and remastered from the original film to be seen and heard in the best possible quality on Blu-ray for the first time. Filmed in Modena, Italy across two nights in November 1993 as part of Peter Gabriel’s acclaimed “Secret World Live” tour in support of the “Us” album, the show is elaborately presented and choreographed with two stages joined by a narrow pier. Peter Gabriel has always been a charismatic live performer with the ability to draw his audience into the onstage world he has created and rarely has this been better captured than on “Secret World Live.”

Peter Gabriel: Secret World Live was released on Blu-ray on July 24, 2012
Photo credit: Eagle Rock

Special Features:
o Bonus Track: “Red Rain”
o Timelapse Film of the stage set up in Berlin, Germany
o The making of Peter Gabriel’s “Secret World Live” Film which includes exclusive video interviews and behind the scenes footage
o Remixed ‘Quiet’ version of ‘Steam’ with photo montage from the tour
o Performance of “The Rhythm of the Heat” with The New Blood Orchestra, filmed at the Hammersmith Apollo, London, 2011

By BRIAN TALLERICO Content Director HollywoodChicago.com brian@hollywoodchicago.com