September 6, 2021

20,000 vinyl LPs 306: Peter Gabriel ~ Security

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 vinyl LP album front cover
Artwork [Based On Video Images] By
David Gardner, Malcolm Poynter & Peter Gabriel 
photo of album cover by Styrous®
        
  
Almost years ago today, September 6, 1982, Peter Gabriel released his Security album. I love all his albums  but to me this one is at the top of the list and it is on my "Desert Island" list (link below). Each and every song is a gem!          
  
     
vinyl LP album back cover
Artwork [Based On Video Images] By
David Gardner, Malcolm Poynter & Peter Gabriel 
photo of album cover by Styrous®


Security is one of my top New Wave album greats and I have it on my "Desert Island" list (link below). I love it so much I bought the German version of it, Deutsches Album (Security) (link below) and each is sensational in its own way.      
 

 
vinyl LP album back cover detail
Artwork [Based On Video Images] By
David Gardner, Malcolm Poynter & Peter Gabriel 
detail photo by Styrous®
 
 
One of my favorite songs on the album is The Family and the Fishing Net. It starts out with a very deep, almost fog horn sound then multiple snares start up a laguid beat. The lyrics are almost unintelligible. Gabriel has said of the song:    
"It's basically a wedding song, but it's more an approach from the undercurrents of the wedding ritual. There are quite a lot of situations that we accept as perfectly normal and regular, traditional, that have this element of ritual that makes deep impressions on the psyche. And this is a somewhat impressionistic account of a wedding. I'd also been reading quite a lot of Dylan Thomas at the time, so there is that influence in the lyric writing."            
Primus, an American funk metal band formed in El Sobrante, California in 1984, does a really great cover of the song (link below).       
        
The image on the front cover of Security is from an experimental video Gabriel directed with sculptor Malcolm Poynter, with professional help from his editor, David Gardner.            
 
 
 
vinyl LP album front cover details
Artwork [Based On Video Images] By
David Gardner, Malcolm Poynter & Peter Gabriel 
detail photos of album cover by Styrous®
 
Peter Gabriel said:    
“The artwork on album 4 was something that I’d been working on with a sculptor called Malcolm Poynter, who’s work I thought was really strong. There was a book I’d seen on distortions, a little like fairground mirrors, and we started using Flexi Mirrors”.    
Malcolm Poynter said:  
“My memory of this project, which was crucially pre-Photoshop, was us dragging around Flexi Mirrors and Fresnel Lenses, and some sculptures, and then having a very creative (if chaotic) time. It was good!”    
 
photo by Larry Fast
 
 
Security was recorded on Quiex II which was a pure vinyl formulation used in the 80's that was colored with dye rather than the more commonly used carbon black (which has coarse granules and creates noise).
 
 
Quiex II sticker
vinyl LP album front cover detail
detail photo by Styrous®


A vinyl LP is usually "black," but Quiex II held up to light, some light can be seen coming through the vinyl; not precisely translucent, but it looks sort of glowy/brownish rather than blocking out all the light.       


Quiex II record
detail photo by Styrous®


Security began with the rhythm. Always fascinated by textures, Gabriel had been digging deeply into folk drumming from Africa. He'd also become intrigued by early sampling technology.          

"I think the rhythm is like the spine of the piece," Gabriel said on 1982. "If you change that, then the body that forms around it is changed as well. So, the style of writing which I was then attracted to put with it was very different from what I would have done with a normal rock rhythm."     
 
Once he got the cadences down, Gabriel worked for a long period of time improvising over these basic skeletons of song and began to record at home on rented equipment.       

 






 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 





















 
 
 
 
 
 
vinyl LP album record cover detail
Artwork [Based On Video Images] By
David Gardner, Malcolm Poynter & Peter Gabriel 
detail photo by Styrous®




 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

vinyl LP record side 1
photos by Styrous®








 
 
vinyl LP record side 2
photos by Styrous®
 
        
        
        





   
Tracklist:

Side 1:

A1 - The Rhythm Of The Heat  -5:15
A2 - San Jacinto - 6:21
A3 - I Have The Touch - 4:30
A4 - The Family And The Fishing Net - 7:00

Side 2:

B1 - Shock The Monkey - 5:23
B2 - Lay Your Hands On Me - 6:03
B3 - Wallflower - 6:30
B4 - Kiss Of Life - 4:17

Companies, etc.

    Manufactured By – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
    Pressed By – Specialty Records Corporation
    Phonographic Copyright (p) – The David Geffen Company
    Copyright (c) – The David Geffen Company
    Published By – Peter Gabriel Ltd.
    Published By – Cliofine Ltd.
    Recorded At – Mobile One
    Mixed At – Crescent Studios
    Remixed At – Sarm East Studios
    Edited At – Advision Studios
    Lacquer Cut At – The Town House
    Mastered At – Sheffield Lab Matrix – △2301

Credits:

    Artwork [Based On Video Images By] – David Gardner (2), Malcolm Poynter, Peter Gabriel
    Backing Vocals – David Rhodes (tracks: A1, A3, A4, B2, B3), Jill Gabriel (tracks: A2), John Ellis (2) (tracks: A1, B3), Peter Gabriel, Peter Hammill (tracks: A4, B1, B2)
    Bass – Tony Levin (tracks: A1, B2 to B4)
    Chapman Stick – Tony Levin (tracks: A2 to B1)
    Drum Machine [Linn Programming] – Peter Gabriel (tracks: A1 to B2)
    Drums – Jerry Marotta, Peter Gabriel (tracks: A2)
    Engineer – David Lord
    Engineer [Assistant] – Neil Perry
    Guitar – David Rhodes (tracks: A2 to B4), John Ellis (2) (tracks: A2, A4)
    Management – Gailforce*
    Percussion – Jerry Marotta (tracks: B2), Morris Pert (tracks: B3)
    Percussion [Ghanaian Drums Section] – Ekome Dance Company (tracks: A1)
    Photography By [Photos And Gluing] – dj (11)
    Piano – David Lord (tracks: B3, B4), Peter Gabriel (tracks: B4)
    Producer – David Lord, Peter Gabriel
    Producer [Electronic Production And Processing] – Larry Fast, Peter Gabriel
    Programmed By [Fairlight CMI], Recorded By [Fairlight CMI] – Stephen Paine
    Programmed By [Fairlight CMI], Recorded By [Fairlight CMI] – David Lord, Larry Fast, Peter Gabriel
    Recorded By [Mobile One] – Andy Rose, Tim Wybrow
    Remix – Julian Mendelsohn (tracks: B1)
    Remix [Assistant] – Danny Heaps (tracks: B1)
    Saxophone – David Lord (tracks: B2), Roberto Laneri (tracks: A4), Stephen Paine (tracks: A4)
    Surdo – Jerry Marotta (tracks: A1), Peter Gabriel (tracks: A1, B3)
    Synthesizer – David Lord (tracks: B2, B4), Larry Fast (tracks: A1 to B1, B3, B4), Peter Gabriel, Tony Levin (tracks: A1)
    Technician [Equipment] – Albert Lawrence, Alan Terry*, Ian Tucker (3), Mal Craggs
    Timbales – Morris Pert (tracks: B2)
    Typography [Typesetting] – Ron Hart
    Written-By, Arranged By – Peter Gabriel

Notes:

Specialty Records Corporation pressing identifiable by "E A S T" deboss near spindle hole on on Side 2.
Similar to Security, but lacks Specialty "B-#####" sequence in runout string.

Lyrics printed on inner picture sleeve.

Recorded at home (the first two weeks with Mobile One) and mixed at Crescent Studios, Bath
B1 remixed at Sarm Studio
Digitally edited at Advision Studios

© ℗ 1982 The David Geffen Company
A1, A2, A4, B3 published by Peter Gabriel Ltd. ASCAP except:
A3, B1, B3, B4 published by Cliofine Ltd. ASCAP

Tony Levin courtesy of E.G. Records Ltd.
Larry Fast courtesy of Passport Records, Inc.
David Rhodes courtesy of Self Control

Barcode and Other Identifiers:

    Pressing Plant ID (Embossed Around Center Hole Side 2): E A S T
    Barcode (Printed): 0 7599-22011-1
    Barcode (Scanned): 075992201117
    Rights Society: ASCAP
    Matrix / Runout (Runout A, variant 1): GHS-1-2011-Re1-SR-1 SLM + △2301 0-1SM1-2 TOWNHOUSE LONDON
    Matrix / Runout (Runout B, variant 1): GHS-2-2011-Re1-SR-1 △2301-X + 0-1SM2-3 SLM TOWNHOUSE LONDON
    Matrix / Runout (Runout A, variant 2): GHS-1-2011-Re1-SR-1 SLM + △2301 0-1SM1-1 TOWNHOUSE LONDON
    Matrix / Runout (Runout B, variant 2): GHS-2-2011-Re1-SR-1 △2301-X + 0-1SM3-2 SLM TOWNHOUSE LONDON
    Matrix / Runout (Runout A, variant 3): GHS-1-2011-Re1-SR-1 SLM + △2301 0-1SM1-3 TOWNHOUSE LONDON
    Matrix / Runout (Runout B, variant 3): GHS-2-2011-Re1-SR-1 △2301-X +0-1SM2 -1 SLM TOWNHOUSE LONDON
    Matrix / Runout (Runout A, variant 4): GHS-1-2011-Re1-SR-1 SLM + △2301 0-1SM4-1 TOWNHOUSE LONDON
    Matrix / Runout (Runout B, variant 4): GHS-2-2011-Re1-SR-1 △2301-X + 0-1SM2 -3 SLM TOWNHOUSE LONDON

Peter Gabriel ‎– Security
Label: Geffen Records ‎– GHS 2011
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Specialty Pressing
Country: US
Released: 1982
Genre: Rock
Style: Art Rock, Prog Rock
        
         
Viewfinder links:        
        
Deutsches Album         
Peter Gabriel        
Tony Levin          
Malcolm Poynter        
David Rhodes          
Viewfinder 'desert island' vinyl LP list        
        
Net links:        
        
Peter Gabriel ~ Security       
Malcolm Poynter        
Real World Galleries ~ Peter Gabriel 4 - Security        
        
        
YouTube links:        
      
Peter Gabriel ~ Security               
           I Have The Touch        
           The Family And The Fishing Net     
           The Family And The Fishing Net (live)      
           Kiss Of Life      
           Lay Your Hands On Me     
           The Rhythm Of The Heat             
           San Jacinto              
           Shock The Monkey      
           Wallflower       
Primus ~ The Family And The Fishing Net                
        
        
         
        
        
        
Styrous® ~ Monday, September 6, 2021       
       
















 
 
 

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