Overview
- Peter Gabriel released the Bright‑Side mix of 'I Belong to the Sky' on Tuesday, June 30, 2026, as the seventh single issued ahead of his forthcoming album o\i.
- Gabriel says the song began as an unfinished candidate from the i/o sessions and was completed with a timpani/tom pattern inspired by the film Jazz on a Summer's Day and drummer Chico Hamilton.
- The Bright‑Side mix was handled by mix engineer Mark 'Spike' Stent, and Gabriel will issue the complementary Dark‑Side mix at the next new moon following his established lunar release pattern.
- The single uses Berndnaut Smilde’s Nimbus de Toekomst 1, 2019 artwork to echo Gabriel’s theme of interior and exterior worlds, and contributors include drummer Manu Katché among the musicians on the track.
- Gabriel links the song and the wider o\i project to ideas about how AI, quantum computing and brain–computer interfaces speed the move from thought to material, and Real World will share further album details ahead of o\i's release later in 2026.