OVO

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Work

OVO is a soundtrack album from 2000, commissioned for the Millennium Dome Show, a multimedia spectacle that was performed 999 times that year in the Millennium Dome in Greenwich. Peter Gabriel thought he would work on it for half a year, but it took two years, and his own album Up had to wait for it. Creative director Mark Fisher had asked him. The project's bad reputation did not put him off: the controversy attracted him instead.

Unlike usual, he left part of the singing to others, such as Elizabeth Fraser, Richie Havens and Paul Buchanan. In The Story of OVO, Neneh Cherry and the rapper Rasco tell the story, deliberately chosen as rap to appeal to children. Low Light has Gaelic singing by Iarla Ó Lionáird and a ney flute. The Tower That Ate People rests on an electronic groove and a distorted flute riff.

Listening

Track list

1. 1The Story of OVO5:22Apple Music ↗
2. 2Low Light6:37Apple Music ↗
3. 3The Time of the Turning5:06Apple Music ↗
4. 4The Man Who Loved the Earth / The Hand That Sold Shadows4:15Apple Music ↗
5. 5The Time of the Turning (Reprise) / The Weaver's Reel5:37Apple Music ↗
6. 6Father, Son4:56Apple Music ↗
7. 7The Tower That Ate People4:50Apple Music ↗
8. 8Revenge1:30Apple Music ↗
9. 9White Ashes2:34Apple Music ↗
10. 10Downside-Up6:05Apple Music ↗
11. 11The Nest That Sailed the Sky5:06Apple Music ↗
12. 12Make Tomorrow10:05Apple Music ↗

30-second previews via Apple Music. Listen to the whole album on Apple Music ↗