Peter Gabriel - This Is Home (Dark-Side Mix)

This Is Home is the tenth track from the album i/o. The first version to be heard is the Dark-Side Mix, by Tchad Blake, released on the full moon 29 September 2023. Listen here: Written and produced by Peter Gabriel, This Is Home is, he says, ‘a love song.’ ‘It began with inspiration from some of the great Tamla Motown rhythm sections so we’re trying to recreate that in a modern way, complete with the tambourine and handclaps. The groove I like a lot, Tony Levin does a great bass part there.’ ‘I did an unusual thing for me in that I tried doing this low voice / high voice thing, so you get this almost conversational voice at the beginning and the second part is a higher, more emotional voice. I thought that would be both intimate and emotive to put the two side by side.’ Though he doesn’t appear on the final track, some of the early brainstorming for what was to become This Is Home was done with the DJ and producer Skrillex; ‘I’d had a call from S