Peter Gabriel - Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence

Primary Artist
Peter Gabriel
Album Title
Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Release Date
April 16, 2002 
Time
 
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Nearly a full decade after the release of Us, Peter Gabriel finally returned with new music in the summer of 2002 -- but it wasn't a new studio album, it was the soundtrack to Phillip Noyce's return to independent Australian cinema, Rabbit-Proof Fence. The film tells the true story of three Aboriginal girls who make a return to their home after being abducted by the government to serve as domestic help to a white family in 1931; as they make their journey through the Outback to their home, they follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, which was constructed to separate Aborigines from white settlers. Read More