ARTIST: Peter Gabriel

CREATOR: ALTER.LAB

SONG: Solsbury Hill FROM Peter Gabriel 1

Video info

Creating an animation for a song as legendary as ‘Solsbury Hill’ has been a profound honor for our team. As a cornerstone of Peter Gabriel's legacy, it's a track that has moved generations since 1977, and one that holds a special place in our own stories.

Our animation aims to capture the song's powerful core message: the courage to let go and embrace a new beginning, even in the face of an unknown future. We drew inspiration from the rich visual history of the song, which weaves together work from directors like Graham Dean and Peter Campus, and notably features excerpts from the film 'Cabbages' by David Stewart and Wesley West. We sought to reinterpret these collective elements to express the pivotal moment of transformation as Peter embarked on his solo journey after Genesis.

This theme is also deeply personal to us. In many ways, the animation is an allegory for our own journeys. Every member of our team has taken a similar leap of faith, leaving certainty behind to pursue a life in art—a path filled with challenges, but also with incredible satisfaction.

Song info:

Solsbury Hill is a track taken from Peter Gabriel's first solo album, released in February 1977.

Words and music by Peter Gabriel. Produced by Bob Ezrin for My Own Production Co Ltd.

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

‘With the first album I’d just left Genesis and had been used to having roles defined, and so suddenly to find myself in a studio full of serious musicians (serious in terms of their ability and what they’d done and so on) was unnerving.

It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record really was a process of trying …’ - pg