Posted August 18, 2010 by Floydian Slip
The Orb‘s “Metallic Spheres” album, to be released this fall, will feature guitar work by Pink Floyd‘s David Gilmour.
Gilmour’s contributions come from a jam session with Martin “Youth” Glover (Killing Joke), originally intended only for an ambient remix of “Chicago,” the Graham Nash song Gilmour helped re-record to benefit alleged UK computer hacker and cause celebre Gary McKinnon.
“Metallic Spheres” will be released in October, with all artist royalties going to benefit McKinnon’s plight to fight extradition to the United States.
There will be two versions of the CD release: A standard, single-disc version; and a two-disc deluxe set. The deluxe version will include the standard CD, along with a second disc presenting the material in 3D60™ sound.
3D60™ is a new sound production process developed by Glover, sound engineer Mike Brady (The Jam) and Ian Thompson that simulates three-dimensional sound without any special equipment needed.
The album will also be available on vinyl and as a download on iTunes.
Posted June 20, 2010 by Floydian Slip
Here are some exclusive stills to accompany the David Gilmour interview we aired as part of this weekend’s Floydian Slip #741.
Thanks to filmmaker Roddy Bogawa who supplied the clip and photos from his upcoming documentary on Storm Thorgerson called “Taken by Storm.”
Posted June 16, 2010 by Floydian Slip
Omnibus Press will publish “Pink Floyd: The Music & the Mystery” by Andy Mabbett. The book will be available in the U.K. next week, June 21. The U.S. publication date is Sept. 1.
The publisher describes the book as “the ultimate illustrated discography of Pink Floyd, covering everything from their first single to their most recent album ‘The Division Bell’. Also included are separate sections on the work on Roger Waters and Syd Barrett.”
Mabbett published and edited the Floyd fanzine “The Amazing Pudding” until 1993. He’s contributed to a couple of other Floydian titles for Omnibus Press and has written about Floyd for Q magazine.
Softcover, 168 pages.
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Posted June 10, 2010 by Floydian Slip
A new feature-length documentary film about long-time Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson is nearly complete, and the filmmaker is looking for funding.
New York filmmaker Roddy Bogawa is the man behind “Taken by Storm,” a 90-minute film looking at the prolific career of Thorgerson, who helped create nearly every Floyd album cover, as well as countless iconic covers from some of the world’s biggest bands.
Floyd’s David Gilmour and Nick Mason are two of many musicians who appear in the film, along with photographers, illustrators and assistants who’ve helped execute the work from the days of Thorgerson’s early studio Hipgnosis to his new company, StormStudios.
Thorgerson has granted Bogawa access to his personal archives so the film promises a bevy of never-before-seen workparts.
Bogawa has established a page at Kickstarter to raise money to complete his project. Pledge amounts as low as $25 can get you some swag in return. If you have larger amounts to spend, some of the rewards are quite impressive. (Ever fancied yourself an Associate Producer? With $3,500, consider it done.)
Visit “Taken by Storm” at Kickstarter or visit the film’s official site.
Posted June 7, 2010 by Floydian Slip
The Flaming Lips‘s cover of Pink Floyd‘s “Dark Side of the Moon” is now available on CD.
The Oklahoma prog-psych rockers first made the album available via iTunes Dec. 22, and as a limited edition LP in April. They also performed it live in Oklahoma City on New Year’s Eve.
Including guests on the recording, the album is credited to “The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches.”
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Posted June 7, 2010 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has made available a new recording of the protest song “We Shall Overcome.”
Posted June 3 to YouTube, the video is a call for the end of the blockade of Gaza.
Waters is seen in the video singing and playing acoustic guitar. Lead guitar is played by G.E. Smith, with drums by Thor Jonsson, neither of whom are seen in the video.
Waters explains his motivation by referencing the freedom march to Gaza this winter. “The would be Freedom Marchers wanted to peacefully draw attention to the predicament of the Palestinian population of Gaza. The Egyptian government, (funded to the tune of $2.1 billion a year, by us, the U.S. tax payers), would not allow the marchers to approach Gaza,” he writes.
“I was moved, in the circumstances, to record a new version of ‘We Shall Overcome.’ It seems appropriate.”
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