Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence

Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence, released in June 2002, is the fourth soundtrack album and twelfth album overall by the English rock musician Peter Gabriel. Devised as the soundtrack to the Australian film Rabbit-Proof Fence, it was the first release of new music by Peter Gabriel since OVO, also a soundtrack. The soundtrack contains elements from and references to songs which Peter would release on his album Up. The track "A Sense of Home" samples the drum loops used on "No Way Out". "Running to the Rain", "Crossing the Salt Pan", and "The Return" are reworked arrangements of "Signal to Noise", track nine of Up. "Ngankarrparni" and "Cloudless" are reworked arrangements of track three, "Sky Blue".
Critical reception
Billboard included Long Walk Home in its reviews Spotlights section, deeming it "to deserve special attention on the basis of musical merit and/or Billboard chart potential". Billboard reviewer Bradley Bambarger recommended the album to fans of Gabriel's album Passion—the soundtrack for the film The Last Temptation of Christ—writing, "the intrepid artist's soundtrack to the Australian film Rabbit-Proof Fence should prove nearly as compelling". He described the album as "atmospheric, often ominously so" and as having "a cumulative emotive power" due to its "interwoven motifs".
Track listing
Personnel
Musicians
Peter Gabriel – keyboard (1–5, 7–13, 15), Surdu (1), clap sticks (2), piano (8, 13, 15), vocals (10, 13, 15), drum programming (13), production
Richard Evans – hammered dulcimer (1, 11), 12 string guitar (1), clap sticks (1–3, 5, 10), bowed crotales (2), bass (5, 9, 11–13, 15), piano (6), guitar (7), shaker (8), whistle (10, 12), keyboard (13), acoustic guitar (15), arrangements, mixing, production (1–14), recording
David Rhodes – surdu (1–4, 7–12), percussion (1), keyboard bass (1), clap sticks (2, 3, 5, 10), vocals (2, 9, 10), digeridoo (2, 7), guitar (5, 7, 9, 11), hit (7), shaker (8, 11, 12), gong (12), electric guitar (13, 15), backing vocals (13, 15), berimbau (14), acoustic guitar (15), arrangements, mixing (1–14), production (1–14)
Ged Lynch – drums (1, 5, 8–10, 13, 15), percussion (1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 11, 13, 15), toms (2)
Electra String - strings (1, 7, 12)
Jangangpa Group – voices (1, 7, 11)
Myarn Lawford – voices (1, 7, 11, 14), wailing (2, 14), vocals (9, 11, 13, 15)
Elsie Thomas – voices (1, 7, 11)
Jewess James – voices (1, 7, 11)
Rosie Goodji – voices (1, 7, 11)
The Dhol Foundation – dhol drums (2, 5, 10)
Adzido – percussion (2, 9, 10)
Johnny Kalsi – galloping percussion (2)
Ningali Lawford – wailing (2, 14), vocals (13, 15)
Shankar – double violin (3, 5–7, 10, 12, 14)
London Session Orchestra – strings (3, 5, 11, 12)
Gavin Wright – violin (3, 5, 10–13, 15)
Jackie Shave – violin (3, 5, 10–13, 15)
Ganga Giri – didgeridoo (4–8, 10–12, 15)
James McNally – bodhran (5)
Hossam Ramzy – finger cymbals (5)
B'Net Houariyat – vocals (5)
Alex Swift – programming (8, 13, 15)
Tomasz Kukurba – violin (8)
Jerzy Bawol – accordion (8)
Mahut – percussion (8)
Doudou N'Diaye Rose – African loops (8)
Chuck Norman – programming (9, 10, 13, 15), keyboard (10, 13, 15)
Babacar Faye – djembes (9)
Assane Thiam – talking drum (9)
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – vocals (11)
The Blind Boys of Alabama – vocals (13, 15)
Peter Green – electric guitar (13, 15)
Richard Chappell – drum programming (13, 15), tambourine loops (15), additional recording
Manu Katché – drums (13, 15)
David Sancious – Hammond organ (13, 15)
Sheryl Carter – wailing (14)
Quantec – drones (14)
Dmitri Pokrovsky – kaliuka (14)
Stephen Hague – drums (15), bass programming (15), mixing (15), production (15)
Technical personnel
Edel Griffith – assistant engineering, additional recording, additional engineering
Marco Migliari – assistant engineering
Dan Roe – assistant engineering
Paul Grady – assistant engineering
Steve Orchard – additional recording, additional engineering
Michael Brook – additional recording, additional engineering
Derek Zuzarte – additional recording, additional engineering
Kevin Quah – assistant additional recording, assistant additional engineering
Yang – assistant additional recording, assistant additional engineering
Tchad Blake – London Session Orchestra treatments
Tony Cousins – mastering
Andrew Skeoch – birds and dingoes recording (1, 4, 7, 9, 10–12)
Sarah Koschak – birds and dingoes recording (1, 4, 7, 9, 10–12)
Marc Bessant – graphic design
Susie Millns – design coordination
Dorothy Napangardi – front cover painting
Jimmy Pike – back cover of booklet painting, inside inlay and CD face painting
Matthew Nettheim – photography
Penny Tweedie – photography
Merv Bishop – photography
References
Peter Gabriel soundtracks
Drama film soundtracks
Albums produced by Peter Gabriel
2002 soundtrack albums
Real World Records soundtracks