{"id":10661,"date":"2026-05-01T09:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/hear-peter-gabriel-new-single-wont-stand-down-154458\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T09:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:11:06","slug":"hear-peter-gabriel-new-single-wont-stand-down-154458","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/hear-peter-gabriel-new-single-wont-stand-down-154458\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Peter Gabriel\u2019s new single, \u201cWon\u2019t Stand Down\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marking the arrival of the flower moon \u2013 the first of two full moons in May \u2013 Peter Gabriel has today released the next song from his forthcoming album oi<\/em>. Listen to “Won’t Stand Down (Bright-Side Mix)” below:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Marking the arrival of the flower moon \u2013 the first of two full moons in May \u2013 Peter Gabriel has today released the next song from his forthcoming album oi<\/em>. Listen to \u201cWon\u2019t Stand Down (Bright-Side Mix)\u201d below:<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s really a song to encourage some sort of activism,\u201d says Gabriel. \u201cI had originally thought about trying to create some music for The Elders.org<\/a>, who are an extraordinary group of people. Their currency is not based on military power, economic power or political power, but just the moral authority they have from having lived extraordinary, selfless lives. That\u2019s something which I wanted to talk about, write about and encourage, because it\u2019s pretty dark out there in lots of places and I think we need people who can just nudge both us and our leaders and keep alive some basic values of justice, compassion and democracy \u2013 a hope that can help us start envisioning a just, peaceful and fairer world.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think people generally respond much better to positive pictures of what\u2019s coming than they do when they are bombarded and scared by negative ones. We are much more likely to engage if we feel hope. Right now, we don\u2019t see so many positive visions of the future, at least they\u2019re not being projected so strongly as the negative, so I think it\u2019s really important that we start looking for visions to which we can aspire and looking for people who can provide that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have always been a fan of Marvin Gaye and there was a Cuban element to his song \u2018Sexual Healing\u2019 that I loved and was exploring \u2013 it was something in the way that it allowed the rhythm to move that I liked, and I tried to bring an element of that to this song, while allowing it to evolve into something different. I think it\u2019s a good band performance in the sense that it\u2019s not built up over a lot of time with many different layers, so it feels more alive and, with this song more than any others on the record, I wanted to have real, live emotion in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The artwork for \u201cWon\u2019t Stand Down\u201d comes from Shirin Neshat, and her work Faith<\/em>. \u201cI\u2019ve been aware of Shirin Neshat since her \u201990s \u2018Women of Allah\u2019 series,\u201d says Gabriel. \u201cShirin is from Iran, although she might well call it Persia. Now she lives in New York. This image is very beautiful, powerful and political. Two sets of hands that, to me, represent the need to protect \u2013 to protect a positive future for our kids. That\u2019s what I get from the image, though Shirin may well have a very different intent.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy using Shirin\u2019s work here people may ask whether this song is connected to what is happening now in Iran and although it wasn\u2019t written in reference to the bombing \u2013 it was written before that attack \u2013 I think it is a real condemnation of humanity that we have not found a way to settle disputes without bombing, destroying and murdering each other. We should be well beyond that by now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tchad Blake\u2019s Dark-Side Mix of \u201cWon\u2019t Stand Down\u201d will be released later in the month, on the second new moon. Further details on the release plans for the full album will follow soon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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