Peace Together: Be Still

Peace Together organization and their cause for the peace in Northern Ireland made a compilation album with several artists in 1993, and one of the singles was "Be Still" which joined musicians Peter Gabriel, Sinéad O'Connor, Feargal Sharkey and Nanci Griffith. Always a noble gesture when artists get involved in political/social causes - even though today is seen as an excessive act by the art community - and a quite nice gathering of the artists involved in this track and the others that appear in the album (U2, Blur, Ian Dury and many others included), but the single and the music video weren't so impressive to hear or see.

O'Connor, Gabriel and Sharkey perform the song, each succeeding one another in close-up shots from their act, and as images we have a sort of industrial world that resembles the workers from Fritz Lang "Metropolis", many men, women and children executing hard labors and/or trying to make some machine work, a very dark background but it slowly builds toward something more positive and by the end of it all they're smiling. Couldn't get a whole idea about it but it has its moments. The song is far from memorable, but it goes on the same route as the images, there's some small appeal and I'd like to think it helped a good cause and might had some popularity in Ireland. It's okay, but I'm not much enthusiastic about it as one expect a great deal with a combo of giant talents as Peter Gabriel and Sinead O'Connor and their amazing voices. 6/10.