Register to win a copy of a special collector’s edition of Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon.”
This is a limited edition single-sided 2LP set pressed on clear 180g vinyl. It features UV artwork printing on each non-groove side, and comes in a gatefold sleeve with slipcase and exclusive poster.
This is the first time Pink Floyd has used this UV printing process on vinyl. The images are printed with a high-end UV printer, using UV-LED light to dry the permanent ink.
Sony Music will release “Luck and Strange,” a new studio album from David Gilmour, on Sept. 6.
Recorded over five months in Brighton and London, it’ll be Gilmour’s first album of new materials since 2015’s “Rattle That Lock.”
Produced by Gilmour and Charlie Andrew (alt-J, Marika Hackman), the album contains eight new tracks, as well as a cover of “Between Two Points” featuring Romany Gilmour, who is the daughter of Gilmour and Polly Samson. The original recording was released in 1999 by indie pop duo The Montgolfier Brothers on their “Seventeen Stars” album.
Musicians contributing to “Luck and Strange” include Guy Pratt and Tom Herbert on bass; Adam Betts, Steve Gadd, and Steve DiStanislao on drums; Rob Gentry and Roger Eno on keyboards; with string and choral arrangements by Will Gardner. Most of the album’s lyrics are by Samson.
The title track also features late Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright, recorded in 2007 at a jam that took place in a barn at Gilmour’s home.
Some recordings were taken from live streams Gilmour and his family performed during the lockdowns of 2020 and ’21.
“Polly and I have been writing together for over 30 years,” Gilmour says, “and the Von Trapped live streams showed the great blend of Romany’s voice and harp-playing and that led us into a feeling of discarding some of the past that I’d felt bound to and that I could throw those rules out and do whatever I felt like doing, and that has been such a joy.”
The album’s cover image, photographed and designed by Anton Corbijn, is inspired by a lyric written by Gilmour’s son, Charlie Gilmour, for the album’s final track, “Scattered.”
Cooking Vinyl will release a special picture disc version of Roger Waters‘s “The Dark Side of the Moon Redux” (2023) for Record Store Day.
The limited edition 1LP picture disc will be individually numbered in a die-cut sleeve. Only 3,000 copies will be pressed.
Record Store Day is tomorrow, Saturday, April 20. Independently-owned brick-and-mortar record stores around the world participate. Many recording artists will offer limited-edition products for sale tomorrow only.
Pink Floyd Records will release a collector’s edition of “The Dark Side of the Moon” on clear vinyl April 19.
It will be a 2-disc 180-gram single-sided LP set, featuring UV artwork print on the non-groove side, packaged in a slipcased gatefold sleeve, with a poster. The album’s iconic prism spectrum will be seen through the playable side of the vinyl.
This is the first time Pink Floyd has used this UV printing process on vinyl. The images are printed with a high-end UV printer, using UV-Led light to dry the permanent ink onto the non-playable side.
This is just the latest of a rash of reissues for “Dark Side” following its 50th anniversary in 2023.
On Dec. 8, Pink Floyd Records will release “Atom Heart Mother” as a special two-disc package. Housed in a 7-inch gatefold sleeve, the release will include the album on CD; and a Blu-ray disc featuring footage of “Atom Heart Mother” performed at Japan’s Hakone Aphrodite Festival in August 1971.
Originally released as part of “The Early Years” box set, the film has been upgraded from a recently-discovered original tape. It includes a behind-the-scenes mini documentary.
Originally only released in Japan 2021, the set contains a photo book containing never-seen-before photos, reproductions of the pamphlet, the poster, the concert ticket, and the flier distributed at the event.
The only Floyd footage at Hakone Aphrodite that exists is the 16-minute-long “Atom Heart Mother Suite.” Details including whereabouts of the master film and how it was shot had been a mystery. However, after 50 years, the original 16mm film of the video was discovered in a fan’s garage. The processes of digitizing, restoring and remastering was undertaken, and for the first time this enhanced video is set to be released outside Japan.
More than 50 years ago, “Hakone Aphrodite,” Japan’s first international outdoor rock festival, was held at a specially-built venue beside Hakone Ashinoko Lake on Aug. 6-7, 1971. Floyd’s first concert in the country was as headliner for the festival. Aspiring to be the Japanese Woodstock, the “Hakone Aphrodite” included international artists and became the first rock festival experience for many Japanese fans.
The set contains the original live footage (with audio taken from the gig at Hakone Aphrodite); and behind-the-scenes footage of the band, travelling between the airport, the hotel, the press conference, the bullet train and the show set-up.
At the time of the concert, Pink Floyd had just released “Atom Heart Mother” (in October 1970), and were yet to release “Meddle,” which would come in November ’71. Floyd appeared as the final act of the festival. Alongside “Atom Heart Mother,” they performed another five songs including “Careful With That Axe, Eugene”; “A Saucerful of Secrets”; and “Echoes,” from the then-upcoming “Meddle.”
Official footage of those additional songs has not yet resurfaced.
Album track list:
Atom Heart Mother:
a) Father’s Shout
b) Breast Milky
c) Mother Fore
d) Funky Dung
e) Mind Your Throats Please
f) Remergence
If
Summer ’68
Fat Old Sun
Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast
a) Rise And Shine
b) Sunny Side Up
c) Morning Glory
The Blu-ray has two pieces of footage on it:
Atom Heart Mother (Live: Hakone Aphrodite 1971) 16:08
Scott & Watts (behind the scenes documentary clip) 3:11
Contents of Pink Floyd “Hakone Aphrodite” (Japan 1971)
7″ paper sleeve containing:
CD
“Atom Heart Mother” studio album
Blu-ray:
Filmed live performance of “Atom Heart Mother”
Scott & Watts (Hakone Aphrodite B-roll)
Includes the first show in Japan by Pink Floyd
This Friday, Pink Floyd will release a 30-minute film documenting the recent Australian eclipse. Entitled “Eclipse,” the YouTube-exclusive release follows a number of Floyd fans who flew to Western Australia in April to listen to the band’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” while experiencing a total solar eclipse.
The documentary will be available on the band’s YouTube channel as part of “Floyd Fridays” at 12 p.m. EDT on Oct. 13.
On Thursday April 20, the shadow of the moon grazed the tip of Western Australia, as it travelled over the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Marine Park in Exmouth. Overseen by the group’s long time creative consultant and Hipgnosis co-founder, Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell, Floyd gave eight Australian fans — dubbed The Astronome Domine Eight — the exclusive opportunity to visit the special scenic location within the region to hear “Dark Side” in its entirety.
The album’s final song, “Eclipse,” was timed to align with the exact moment of total eclipse.
The documentary, created by Powell, director Benny Trickett and producer Fiz Oliver, follows the Astronome Domine Eight who listened on headphones alongside a purpose-built pyramid on a deserted beach. It traces their journey from applying for the trip through their denouement after the eclipse.
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Warner/Sony Music will release the 50th anniversary edition of Pink Floyd‘s “The Dark Side of the Moon” as a stand-alone CD, LP and Blu-ray on Oct. 13.
First released as part of the album’s 50th anniversary boxset (See “50th anniversary boxset and more coming for The Dark Side of the Moon”), this is the first time the new remaster of the album will be available on its own. The Blu-ray contains Dolby Atmos and 5.1 Surround Sound mix, as well as the remastered stereo version. The package comes with commemorative postcards, stickers and a 24-page booklet.
James Guthrie was involved with remastering the CD, LP, Dolby Atmos and 5.1 Surround Sound versions. Joel Plante also worked on the CD and LP; Bernie Grundman joined them on the LP remaster.
Congratulations to our winners of copies of “Atom Heart Mother Hakone Aphrodite Japan 1971”:
Congratulations to our winners of copies of the 50th anniversary edition of Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon”:
Warner/Sony Music will release the 50th anniversary edition of Pink Floyd‘s “The Dark Side of the Moon” as a stand-alone CD, LP and Blu-ray on Oct. 13.
