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 Passion, released in 1989 through Real World Records in the UK and Geffen Records in the US, is the second soundtrack album by British art pop musician Peter Gabriel. His debut release on Real World, a vanity label created by Gabriel in the wake of Charisma Records' absorption into Virgin Records, the album acts as the soundtrack to Martin Scorsese's controversial film The Last Temptation of Christ from the year prior. Like the film, Passion was designed as an unconventional take on Christian music, avoiding the trappings of European classical music commonly associated with the story of Jesus in favor of trying to approximate the kind of music that would've been played in first-century Israel, during Jesus' own life. To do this, Gabriel sourced talent from the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and South Asia, via the resources offered by his organization WOMAD. This included not only returning guest vocalist Youssou N'Dour from So, but also Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Lakshminarayana Shankar, and Baaba Maal, who saw their first major international exposure as a result of their involvement with the album. The collaboration seemed to endear these artists to Gabriel, as Shankar would appear on Gabriel's following two studio albums, with Khan posthumously appearing on the latter as well. Later in the year, Gabriel would release the companion record Passion — Sources, a compilation of related pieces from the same sessions by the artists brought on board to assist Gabriel on this album.At the same time, however, the album does not represent the soundtrack as it was originally presented in the film. Rather, Gabriel chose to revisit it following the film's release, elaborating upon his work and developing previously unfinished ideas to create a markedly different product than what theatergoers had heard in 1988, similarly to Queen's A Kind of Magicnote based on the Highlander soundtrack before it and David Bowie's 'hours...'note based on the Omikron: The Nomad Soul soundtrack a decade after it. Thus, Gabriel came to view Passion as a full studio album, which would technically make it his sixth to hold the distinction. That said, however, the fact that its release tied in with The Last Temptation of Christ (to the point where most releases subtitle it Music for The Last Temptation of Christ) results in it generally being seen as more of a soundtrack album than a "proper" studio release. If one splits hairs, this could technically be Gabriel's fifth-and-a-half studio album by nature of this dual categorization.Because of the nature of its creation, the album is a marked deviation from the styles of music Gabriel had become known for, being an ambient-driven Progressive Rock/New Age album in which the songs are interlinked as a single unit, totaling to what is effectively a 67-minute Israeli symphony. Said symphony lacks any true lyrical content whatsoever, instead featuring occasional nonverbal vocalizations from both Gabriel and various session singers, and is punctuated by an immensely foreboding atmosphere true to the tone of Jesus' final days. There is, of course, also the elephant in the room of this being an overtly Christian Rock album from an artist whose music otherwise tended to be somewhat secular in tone, though given the film this album tied in with, this trait was somewhat inevitable (after all, making secularly-driven music about the central figure of the most widespread religion in the western world is about as easy as raising the dead).The album peaked at No. 29 on the UK Albums chart and No. 60 on the Billboard 200, later being certified gold in the United States. Additionally, alongside David Byrne's Rei Momo (released later the same year), Passion has since been recognized as a major figure in the popularization of proper World Music, following the mainstream decline of worldbeat in the latter half of the '80s.Passion wasn't supported by any traditional singles. However, an Animated Music Video for "Zaar", using a portion of the 1987 Stefan Roloff film Lunch, was aired on MTV as a form of promotion; the song would later be included on Gabriel's 1990 Greatest Hits Album Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats.Tracklist:LP OneSide A "The Feeling Begins" (4:00) "Gethsemane" (1:26) "Of These, Hope" (3:55) "Lazarus Raised" (1:26) "Of These, Hope — Reprise" (2:44) "In Doubt" (1:33) "A Different Drum" (4:40)Side B "Zaar" (4:53) "Troubled" (2:55) "Open" (3:27) "Before Night Falls" (2:18) "With This Love" (3:40)LP TwoSide C "Sandstorm" (3:02) "Stigmata" (2:28) "Passion" (7:39) "With This Love (Choir)" (3:20)Side D "Wall of Breath" (2:29) "The Promise of Shadows" (2:13) "Disturbed" (3:35) "It Is Accomplished" (2:55) "Bread and Wine" (2:21)Note: CD copies are on a single disc; cassette copies are on a single tape, with each side containing the entirety of each disc from the double-LP release"If I was a woodcutter, I'd cut. If I was a fire, I'd burn. But I'm a troper and I trope. That's the only thing I can do.":
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