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Passion Sources. VARIOUS ARTISTS. (1989)
- Shamus-Ud-Doha Bader-Ud-Doja – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party
- Call To Prayer – Baaba Maal
- Sankarabaranam Pancha Nadai Pallavi – Shankar And The Epidemics
- Ulvi – Kudsi Erguner
- Fallahi – Hossam Ramzy
- Banga (Tanta-Suaag) – Sabahiya
- Tejbeit – Unknown Ethiopian Musicians
- Prelude In Tchahargah – Mahmoud Tabrizi Zadeh
- Wedding Song – Unknown Moroccan Musicians
- Magdelene’s House – Abdul Aziz El-Sayed
- Yoky – Fatala
- Ya Sah – Nass El Ghiwane
- Al Nahla Al ‘Ali – Les Musiciens Du Nil
- Song Of Complaint – Antranik Askarian And Khatchadour KhatchaturianLINER NOTES
Passion Sources was compiled by Peter Gabriel as a companion to his album Passion, the music he’d written for the Martin Scorsese film The Last Temptation of Christ.
Recording the film soundtrack, Peter Gabriel worked with many international musicians. Some recorded at Real World Studios, some on the film’s location in North Africa, and others were sought out from past archives. Passion Sources gives us scope to hear more from these musicians in their own right.
“In my research for Passion, many people mentioned the wonderful resources of the National Sound Archive and in particular introduced me to Lucy Duran, who both understood what I was hoping to achieve and made lots of great suggestions. Scorsese had asked for a new type of score that was neither ancient nor modern, that was not a pastiche but had clear references to the region, traditions and atmospheres, but was in itself a living thing.”
Passion Sources includes many ‘sources of inspiration’ for the main Passion album —some of the recordings of traditional music that Peter listened to at the National Sound Archive— alongside location recordings made during the filming process. For Gabriel, the archive is still a relevant source of inspiration: “There is so much great stuff there, most of which you can’t reach by Googling.”
