ARTIST: Peter Gabriel

CREATOR: ALTER.LAB

SONG: Solsbury Hill FROM Peter Gabriel 1

Video info

Creating an animation for a song as legendary as ‘Solsbury Hill’ has been a profound honor for our team. As a cornerstone of Peter Gabriel's legacy, it's a track that has moved generations since 1977, and one that holds a special place in our own stories.

Our animation aims to capture the song's powerful core message: the courage to let go and embrace a new beginning, even in the face of an unknown future. We drew inspiration from the rich visual history of the song, which weaves together work from directors like Graham Dean and Peter Campus, and notably features excerpts from the film 'Cabbages' by David Stewart and Wesley West. We sought to reinterpret these collective elements to express the pivotal moment of transformation as Peter embarked on his solo journey after Genesis.

This theme is also deeply personal to us. In many ways, the animation is an allegory for our own journeys. Every member of our team has taken a similar leap of faith, leaving certainty behind to pursue a life in art—a path filled with challenges, but also with incredible satisfaction.

Song info:

Solsbury Hill is a track taken from Peter Gabriel's first solo album, released in February 1977.

Words and music by Peter Gabriel. Produced by Bob Ezrin for My Own Production Co Ltd.

Published by Real World Music Ltd. / Sony Music Publishing.

‘With the first album I’d just left Genesis and had been used to having roles defined, and so suddenly to find myself in a studio full of serious musicians (serious in terms of their ability and what they’d done and so on) was unnerving.

It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record really was a process of trying …’ - pg

ARTIST: Peter Gabriel

CREATOR: Del Bey

SONG: Olive Tree (Bright-Side Mix) FROM i/o

Video info

Rooted in the tension between connection and survival, Del’s creative work explores the pull between grounding in community and the constant movement required to endure. Through digital collage, video, with symbolic imagery, she reflects on nature’s resilience and the search for peace and purpose.

Del documented corresponding times and dates on a stationary travel clock over three years - a meditation on stillness and documenting the growth of forty-year-old ficus trees' roots. Organic forms that, like olive trees, serve as living metaphors for memory, endurance, and renewal. They echo her own path as an artist, teacher, and caregiver, shaped by experiences influenced by her African-American, Jamaican, Cherokee, and European heritage.

Her layered process traverses Photoshop, Premiere Pro, iMovie, AI tools, and iPhone, reshaping and reanimating imagery until rhythm and movement emerge. The result is a body of work that holds both struggle and hope, offering space for renewal, presence, and connection.

Song info:

Olive Tree is a track taken from Peter Gabriel's album i/o, released on 1 December 2023. This is the Bright-Side Mix, by Mark 'Spike' Stent.

Words and music by Peter Gabriel. Produced by Peter Gabriel.

Published by Real World Music Ltd. / Sony Music Publishing.

“This song is one of those taken from this next brain project that I am working on. We are entering a time in which reading each other’s thoughts will become a normal part of our lives. In this story our hero puts on the brain scanning helmet, that turns thoughts into pictures, and then sees all the deep connections he has with the natural world and in particular to one olive tree.

In many ways, we are part of everything and we probably have the means to connect and communicate with everything, yet we often shut it off. We only want to see and listen to the things that seem important and relevant to us and shut out the noise of everything else. But probably, hidden in that noise, there are all sorts of things that can help us realise our place in this future world and help us remember we are still apes who need a healthy natural world to survive.”

-pg

ARTIST: Peter Gabriel

CREATOR: Albert Normandin

SONG: i/o (Dark-Side Mix) FROM: i/o

Video info:

Creating a visual flow with colours in an abstract way for the Dark-Side of i/o to emphasise our existence. Blending earth, nature and life together which are all a part of everything. Using traditional photographic methods, sweeping motion and animation in the real world. To appreciate the  excitement, energy and joy that we are so fortunate to have in this life on earth.

 We are all a part of everything.

- Albert Normandin

Song info:

i/o is a track taken from Peter Gabriel's album i/o, released on 1 December 2023. This is the Bright-Side Mix, by Mark 'Spike' Stent.

Words and music by Peter Gabriel. Produced by Peter Gabriel.

Published by Real World Music Ltd. / Sony Music Publishing.

i/o means input / output. You see it on the back of a lot of electrical equipment and it just triggered some ideas about the stuff we put in and pull out of ourselves, in physical and non-physical ways. That was the starting point of this idea and then trying to talk about the interconnectedness of everything. The older I get, I probably don't get any smarter, but I have learned a few things and it makes a lot of sense to me that we are not these independent islands that we like to think we are, that we are part of a whole. If we can see ourselves as better connected, still messed up individuals, but as part of a whole, then maybe there's something to learn?

-pg