Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence is the fourth soundtrack and twelfth album overall released by the British

United Kingdom

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 musician Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career...

. Devised as the soundtrack to the Australia

Australia

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n film Rabbit-Proof Fence

Rabbit-Proof Fence (film)

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, it was the first release of new music by Peter Gabriel since OVO

OVO

OVO is the soundtrack to the Millennium Dome Show in London that was composed by Peter Gabriel. It was his eleventh album overall. It was released on 29 August 2000 and features guest vocals by Neneh Cherry, Rosco, Richie Havens, Elizabeth Fraser and Paul Buchanan...

, also a soundtrack.

The theme from the tracks "Ngankarrparni" and "Cloudless" recurs in the track "Sky Blue" on Gabriel's album Up

Up (Peter Gabriel album)

Up is the seventh studio and 13th album overall released by the British progressive rock musician Peter Gabriel.-Pre-release:In the Spring of 1995, Gabriel began work on the album. Its name was Up from the start, though at one point it was considered to be called I/O...

.

Track listing

All compositions written by Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel

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.

1. "Jigalong" – 4:03
2. "Stealing the Children" – 3:19
3. "Unlocking the Door" – 1:57
4. "The Tracker" – 2:67
5. "Running to the Rain" – 3:18
6. "On the Map" – 0:58
7. "A Sense Of Home" - 1:59
8. "Go Away, Mr Evans" – 5:14
9. "Moodoo's Secret" – 3:02
10. "Gracie's Recapture" – 4:40
11. "Crossing the Salt Pan" – 5:07
12. "The Return, Parts 1-3" – 11:25
13. "Ngankarrparni [Sky Blue (Reprise)]" – 6:01
14. "The Rabbit-Proof Fence" – 1:08
15. "Cloudless" – 4:49

Personnel

• Peter Gabriel
  Peter Gabriel
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   – piano
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  , keyboards
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  , vocals, surdo
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  , drum programming
• Richard Evans
• Tchad Blake
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• David Rhodes
• Manu Katché
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• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
• Hossam Ramzy
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• L. Shankar
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• Doudou N'Daiye Rose
• Assane Thiam
• Fenella Barton
• Dinah Beamish
• Marc Berrow
• Melanie Gabriel
• Duchess Nell Catchpole
• Ben Chappell
• Roger Chase
• David Daniels
• Babacar Faye
• Antonia Fuchs
• Peter Green
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• Will Gregory
  Will Gregory
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• Stephen Hague
  Stephen Hague
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• Peter Hanson
  Peter Hanson
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• Sally Herbert
• Benet Houariyat
• Nick Ingraham
• Johnny Kalsi
  Johnny Kalsi
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• Patrick Kiernan
• Boguslaw Kostecki
• Peter Lale
• Chris Laurence
• Julian Leaper
• Martin Loveday
• Ged Lynch
• Dominque Mahut
• James McNally
• Donald McVay
• Chuck Norman
• Jacqueline Norrie
• Claire Orsler
• Anthony Pleeth
  Anthony Pleeth
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• Dmitri Pokrovsky
• Jocelyn Pook
  Jocelyn Pook
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• Fred Rice
• David Sancious
  David Sancious
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• Mary Scully
• Jackie Shave
• Robert Smissen
• Cathy Thompson
• Chris Tombling
• Gavyn Wright
• Adzido Pan African Dance Ensemble
• Blind Boys of Alabama
• Dhol Foundation
  Dhol Foundation
  The Dhol Foundation is both a dhol drum institute in London and a musical group playing bhangra music. The dhol school was founded in 1989 by former Alaap member Johnny Kalsi when several musicians asked him to be their teacher, and a first album was released by Kalsi and his students in 2001...
  
  
• Electra Strings
• London Session Orchestra

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