Track Listing

1. Jigalong
2. Stealing The Children
3. Unlocking The Door
4. The Tracker
5. Running To The Rain
6. On The Map
7. A Sense Of Home
8. Go Away Mr Evans
9. Moodoo's Secret
10. Gracie's Recapture
11. Crossing The Salt Pan
12. The Return (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
13. Ngankarrparni (Sky Blue Reprise)
14. The Rabbit-Proof Fence
15. Cloudless

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19726 in Music
• Released on: 2003-01-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .21 pounds
• Running time: 94 minutes

From Amazon.com
Aside from a multimedia pastiche he did for England's millennium celebration, this soundtrack for Philip Noyce's film marks Peter Gabriel's first full slate of original recordings in nearly a decade. In the meantime, Gabriel's globally ambitious Real World musical mini-empire has taken precedence; the knowledge the musician gleaned there is immediately apparent in his film cues here. While the booming electro-tribal rhythms of previous Gabriel work come instantly into play, there's a sense of spacious mystery that's perfectly emblematic of the story's Australian outback setting. Gabriel's penchant for dense aural construction gives way to an ambient soundscape punctuated by Aboriginal percussion, didgeridoo, and bird song, and occasionally washed over by lolling tides of synth and samples. It's an atmosphere that, like the Aboriginal world it evokes, is nearly devoid of traditional melody, but one infused with a gripping, almost subliminal power. "Cloudless" then brings in haunting indigenous voices as well, intertwining them with a wordless, Westernized choral to emphasize Gabriel's compelling world music vision. --Jerry McCulley

Chronique amazon.fr
Musicien nomade, Peter Gabriel se console de l'échec du dôme du millénaire, aventure immortalisée avec l'album OVO, en s'imbibant des images du réalisateur Philip Noyce (The Bone Collector, Patriot Games, etc.). Pendant que l'un filme les déboires de Molly Craig, jeune Aborigène de 14 ans vendue comme domestique, l'autre compose 15 plages intensément émouvantes. Loin du carcan pop, Peter Gabriel tisse en compagnie de David Rhodes et de Richard Evans, privés de guitares et obligés de tripoter surdu, didgeridoo, gong et autre shaker, une partition atmosphérique frappée des percussions délicates de Mahut ("Go Away Mr. Evans") et de la voix de Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Avec The Rabbit-Proof Fence, Peter Gabriel, qui a fait ses preuves en 1989 avec La Dernière Tentation du Christ de Martin Scorsese suivi de Birdy d'Alan Parker, visite des contrées habitées de chants d'oiseaux et de sons exotiques. Une escapade de plus à l'actif de cet ex-Genesis pas vraiment obsédé par la suite à donner à Us, son dernier album enregistré en 1992. --Sabrina Silamo

Album Description
2002 album from Peter Gabriel is the soundtrack to the highly acclaimed independent Australian film 'Rabbit Proof Fence' directed by Phillip Noyce (The Bone Collector, Patriot Games and others). 15 tracks. Realworld Records / 2002 release. No US release is currently scheduled.