Posted August 12, 2014 by Floydian Slip
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Posted August 11, 2014 by Floydian Slip
“Their Mortal Remains,” the massive Pink Floyd exhibit scheduled to open Sept. 19 in Milan, Italy, has been postponed.
Evolve Devolve, the Italian promoter of the event, issued a statement today saying the complexity of the installation made it impossible for the company to meet the timeline.
The company has temporarily suspended ticket sales for the 3-month event. Tickets already purchased will remain valid and may be used once new dates are announced, or can be refunded at point of sale.
The exhibit will include 300 items flown in from all over the world, occupying approximately 27,000 square feet.
Posted August 11, 2014 by Floydian Slip
Esoteric Antenna will release “Signal to Noise,” a new album by long-time Pink Floyd recording engineer Andy Jackson, on Nov. 3.
The 7-track album will be available as a single CD and as a limited edition 2-disc digipack with 5.1 Surround Sound mix.
The label describes the album as “a fine, modern, progressive work, which draws on Andy Jackson’s exemplary work as an engineer and producer.”
Besides being an allusion to Jackson’s sound engineering background, the title refers to many of the lyrical themes of the album. “The album reflects on the sorting of what is important in life from the humdrum of everyday existence,” he explains, “and is in itself an analogy for the process of the creation of the album.”
The songlist will be:
Jackson’s tenure with Floyd and its members includes work on “The Wall” film, “The Final Cut,” “A Momentary Lapse of Reason,” “The Division Bell,” “Pulse,” Roger Waters‘ “The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking,” David Gilmour‘s “About Face,” “On An Island,” and “Live in Gdansk,” as well as the upcoming Floyd album “The Endless River.”
His work’s earned him two Grammy nominations and Mix magazine’s award for best live sound engineer for the “Pulse” tour.
Esoteric Antenna is a division of Cherry Red Records of London.
Posted August 11, 2014 by Floydian Slip
Posted August 8, 2014 by Floydian Slip
Audio from our weekly guest appearance on Chicago’s 103.9 The Fox (WFXF), chatting with morning guy and Floyd fan Sherman, wherein we discuss the Floyd goin’ all Spinal Tap.
Listen to the segment:
Posted August 6, 2014 by Floydian Slip
Marianne Faithfull‘s upcoming “Give My Love to London” album will include “Sparrows Will Sing,” a number written by Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters.
The track is the first single from the album, and is now available on Faithfull’s YouTube channel.
The album is set to drop Sept. 29.
Read more about the album and Faithfull’s past work with Waters (“Marianne Faithfull album to feature Roger Waters music”). And listen to the track here:
Posted August 5, 2014 by Floydian Slip
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Posted August 4, 2014 by Floydian Slip
Posted August 2, 2014 by Floydian Slip
At the risk of spreading rumor, this image has been circulating the Web, supposedly showing the songlist of Pink Floyd’s upcoming album “The Endless River.”
We can’t confirm its original source, nor its authenticity.
Posted August 1, 2014 by Floydian Slip
Our copy of the new Dream Academy compilation arrived today. Its liner notes reveal some more details about David Gilmour‘s participation in the previously-unreleased tracks included on the album.
Band frontman Nick Laird-Clowes writes of “Living in a War”: “Another song taken from the third album sessions. It had started life with a simple acoustic/string synthesizer arrangement, but had developed in the studio under the influence of the technology and sounds of the time, including David Gilmour’s multi-octave guitar sound (circa 1989). It was then thought to be ‘too eighties’ and subsequently put on the shelf but emerges now as a pure sound snapshot of its time.”
For the other track featuring Gilmour, “The Chosen Few,” Laird-Clowes writes: “Recorded in sessions for the last album. One afternoon in a break from his ‘A Momentary Lapse of Reason’ Tour, David came down to the Strongroom where we were recording with Anthony Moore and added some electric and slide guitar to the track. With Pete Thomas playing the drums, Guy Pratt and Jon Carin augmenting our sound with the Hammond organ, there was very much a ‘live band’ feel to this recording.”
Careful observers will recognize some of those names as those of other Floyd contributors. (Laird-Clowes co-wrote a couple tracks on Floyd’s “The Division Bell” [1994].)
“Living in a War” and “The Chosen Few” are pretty much as one might expect, and as described above. Unfortunately, for Floyd fans, Gilmour’s contributions rarely rise to the top of the mix in either track.
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