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So is the fifth studio album by English rock musician Peter Gabriel, released on 19 May 1986 by Charisma Records. After working on the soundtrack to the film Birdy (1984), producer Daniel Lanois was invited to remain at Gabriel’s home during 1985 to work on his next singing project. Initial sessions for So consisted of Gabriel, Lanois and guitarist David Rhodes, although these grew to include a number of percussionists. Although Gabriel continued to use the pioneering Fairlight CMI synthesizer, the album’s songs are notably less experimental than his previous material, and fuse art rock with elements of traditional world music, particularly African and Brazilian styles. It is Gabriel’s first non-eponymous album; So representing an “anti-title” that resulted from label pressure... Read on...