Guess Peter Gabriel must be pretty unique judging by the lack of responses.
If you're interested in chasing down music similar to early Genesis, you might want to check out Anthony Phillips - one of Genesis's founding members - who followed a little known solo career afterwards. Some of his early stuff - especially "The Geese and the Ghost" have that prog-rock-Genesis sound.
If you haven't tracked down PG's film scores yet, "The Passion" is great (from "Last Temptation of Christ"), and (although I only heard it on the film) the soundtrack to "Rabbit Proof Fence" was pretty haunting too.
The closest female I can think of - and she sings back up on "So" - is Kate Bush. Her 1982 CD "The Dreaming" captures some of PG's weird, world-beat sound as well as his some of his dreamlike lyrics (thinking of songs like "Family Snapshot"). The title track "The Dreaming" is all Australian didgeridoo beat; "Pull out the Pin" tells the tale of a Vietcong ready to throw a hand grenade; "Houdini" is a tale told from the POV of his wife. A truly amazing album. If she hadn't released anything else, this would have cemented her critically acclaimed status.
Hear samples at MSN (although it doesn't seem to currently work)http://entertainment.msn.com/album/Default.aspx?album=142542 and at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000006MS3/qid=1068843093/sr=8-4/ref=sr_8_4/104-3496430-0011919?v=glance&s=music&n=507846. BTW, it seems to be on sale at Tower Records for $7.99 - a screaming good buy.
If you're interested in chasing down music similar to early Genesis, you might want to check out Anthony Phillips - one of Genesis's founding members - who followed a little known solo career afterwards. Some of his early stuff - especially "The Geese and the Ghost" have that prog-rock-Genesis sound.
If you haven't tracked down PG's film scores yet, "The Passion" is great (from "Last Temptation of Christ"), and (although I only heard it on the film) the soundtrack to "Rabbit Proof Fence" was pretty haunting too.
The closest female I can think of - and she sings back up on "So" - is Kate Bush. Her 1982 CD "The Dreaming" captures some of PG's weird, world-beat sound as well as his some of his dreamlike lyrics (thinking of songs like "Family Snapshot"). The title track "The Dreaming" is all Australian didgeridoo beat; "Pull out the Pin" tells the tale of a Vietcong ready to throw a hand grenade; "Houdini" is a tale told from the POV of his wife. A truly amazing album. If she hadn't released anything else, this would have cemented her critically acclaimed status.
Hear samples at MSN (although it doesn't seem to currently work)http://entertainment.msn.com/album/Default.aspx?album=142542 and at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000006MS3/qid=1068843093/sr=8-4/ref=sr_8_4/104-3496430-0011919?v=glance&s=music&n=507846. BTW, it seems to be on sale at Tower Records for $7.99 - a screaming good buy.