{"id":67679,"date":"2026-06-30T14:44:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/peter-gabriels-new-song-i-belong-to-the-sky-off-oi-album\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T14:44:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:44:30","slug":"peter-gabriels-new-song-i-belong-to-the-sky-off-oi-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/peter-gabriels-new-song-i-belong-to-the-sky-off-oi-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Gabriel&#8217;s New Song &#8216;I Belong to the Sky&#8217; off &#8216;o\\i&#8217; Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Song will appear on artist&#8217;s upcoming <em>o\\i <\/em>album<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/peter-gabriel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_peter-gabriel\" data-tag=\"peter-gabriel\">Peter Gabriel<\/a> may be bound to Newton\u2019s law of universal gravitation, but on a new song from his upcoming <em>o\\i<\/em> album (release date TBA) he argues that \u201cI Belong to the Sky.\u201d Using a lunar calendar to determine his release schedule, Gabriel released the \u201cBright-Side Mix\u201d of the song on Tuesday since Earthlings will witness a strawberry full moon at night; the \u201cDark-Side Mix\u201d of the tune is due \u201con the next new moon\u201d (July 14), according to his rep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe song, at least the Bright-Side version, is a sprawling seven-plus\u2013minute slow burn with burbling synths that recall deep cuts on Gabriel\u2019s all-digital <em>Peter Gabriel <\/em>(1982), though with miasmas of saxophone and bright backing vocals. \u201cBringing the dream to life,\u201d he sings, before purposely or accidentally acknowledging Newton\u2019s law, \u201cthe picture is falling.\u201d Not very bright in tone, the song feels more like a wish than a declaration.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Peter Gabriel - I Belong to the Sky (Bright-Side Mix)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4yHQKrvUFSg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn a statement, Gabriel explained that the song had had a long genesis and almost made it onto his i\/o record in 2023 but he couldn\u2019t finish it off. \u201cThe starting point of the song was the timpani tom-tom pattern which was inspired by an old film called <em>Jazz on a Summer\u2019s Day<\/em> and also a wonderful drummer called Chico Hamilton. I think he was the pioneer of the use of timpani sticks on the toms and I always loved that sound; calm and hypnotic. It set a really strong mood for me and the song grew up around it.\u201d He added that he was especially impressed by drummer Manu Katch\u00e9\u2019s work on the song.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWilling dreams into existence, or rather \u201chow dreams leave their nest,\u201d he said, was the point of the song. \u201cOne of the things that the technological revolution is doing is accelerating the time for thoughts to become material things,\u201d he said. \u201cThe time it takes to transform an idea into something material is being radically cut. In the song, the verses have a more dreamlike \u2018on your back and look up at the sky\u2019 feeling and then in the chorus it\u2019s about the execution, the materializing.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tGabriel went into greater detail about the song\u2019s origin in a video he posted to YouTube. In the clip, he reserved special praise for visual artist Berndnaut Smilde \u00a0who used a photo by Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk for a work titled <em>Nimbus de Toekomst 1, 2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"It was always one of my favourites... Peter Gabriel on &amp;apos;I Belong to the Sky&amp;apos;. Full moon update\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dHEPr7rYrhc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tGabriel has been slowly releasing songs from <em>o\\i<\/em> since 2026 began. The process began with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/peter-gabriel-lp-o-i-full-moon-1235493412\/\">\u201cBeen Undone (Dark-Side Mix),\u201d<\/a> which came out on Jan. 3. Other\u2019s he has released include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/peter-gabriel-lp-o-i-full-moon-1235493412\/\">\u201cPut the Bucket Down\u201d<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/peter-gabriel-new-song-a-hard-lesson-oi-1235570475\/\">\u201cA Hard Lesson.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/peter-gabriel-new-song-i-belong-to-the-sky-1235586551\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Song will appear on artist&#8217;s upcoming o\\i album Peter Gabriel may be bound to Newton\u2019s law of universal gravitation, but on a new song&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":67680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}