ARTIST: Peter Gabriel

CREATOR: Jean-Luc Addams

SONG: San Jacinto FROM Peter Gabriel 4

Video info

San Jacinto is a very personal project (for me) as the person responsible for the iconic Fairlight CMI programming is a mentor and good friend. I took the lyrics and the story as mentioned in the So DVD footage and formulated a plan: Use the Native American Indian language glyphs to visually tell the same story in a dream-like and painterly style.

The glyphs were drawn and animated in both 2d and 3d. Some new techniques were created and everything was brought together into Davinci Resolve. Some of the visuals are stark, some subtle, I pictured them on a big screens with Peter’s vocals giving them life.

Song info:

San Jacinto is a track taken from Peter Gabriel's fourth solo album, released in September 1982.

Words and music by Peter Gabriel. Produced by Peter Gabriel and David Lord.

Published by Real World Music Ltd. / Sony Music Publishing.

‘San Jacinto was more about… culture clash came up in a few of the lyrics, but between Native American and contemporary American. I’d noticed, whilst travelling around the West, the bits of Native American culture that had been absorbed into the motels or casinos or whatever it was. It started me thinking about it anyway and musically too I was trying to build on what I’d begun on a previous album with ‘systems’ approach and repeated motifs.’ - pg