Posted May 16, 2022 by Floydian Slip
Ian Emes, the British animator who created Pink Floyd‘s iconic film for “Time” and others, has launched a web store.
The store, at www.musicglue.com/ian-emes, offers apparel, accessories and prints of his work for Floyd, as well as Wings, Duran Duran, Mike Oldfield and others.
In addition to his animation work for musical groups, Emes has designed album covers; directed several feature films and TV shows; and hundreds of commercials.
Posted April 7, 2022 by Floydian Slip
“Hey, Hey, Rise Up!,” the new single by Pink Floyd, is scheduled to be made available for digital purchase and on streaming platforms at 9 p.m. EDT tonight. But the band has already posted the video of track.
Read more about the new song: “Pink Floyd to release single ‘Hey, Hey, Rise Up!'”
Posted April 7, 2022 by Floydian Slip
Tomorrow Pink Floyd will release its first new track recorded together as a band since 1994’s “The Division Bell.” The group will release the single “Hey, Hey, Rise Up!” at midnight, with proceeds going to Ukrainian humanitarian relief.
David Gilmour and Nick Mason, apparently constituting the legal definition of Pink Floyd, are joined on the track by Guy Pratt on bass, and Nitin Sawhney on keyboards. Vocals are by Andriy Khlyvnyuk, frontman of Ukrainian rock band BoomBox.
Rick Wright’s daughter, Gala, attended the recording session.
Gilmour tells The Guardian, “I rang Nick up and said: ‘Listen, I want to do this thing for Ukraine. I’d be really happy if you played on it and I’d also be really happy if you’d agree to us putting it out as Pink Floyd.’ And he was absolutely on for that.”
The project began when Gilmour saw Khlyvnyuk singing the 1914 protest song “Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow” on Instagram, and decided to build a song around it.
“Recently I read that Andriy had left his American tour with Boombox, had gone back to Ukraine, and joined up with the Territorial Defense. Then I saw this incredible video on Instagram, where he stands in a square in Kyiv with this beautiful gold-domed church and sings in the silence of a city with no traffic or background noise because of the war. It was a powerful moment that made me want to put it to music.
From left: Nitin Sawhney, David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Guy Pratt
Gilmour tells The Guardian, “I thought: That is pretty magical and maybe I can do something with this. I’ve got a big platform that [Pink Floyd] have worked on for all these years. It’s a really difficult and frustrating thing to see this extraordinarily crazy, unjust attack by a major power on an independent, peaceful, democratic nation. The frustration of seeing that and thinking ‘what the fuck can I do?’ is sort of unbearable.”
Gilmour’ explains his association with Khlyvnyuk goes back to 2015: “I played a show at Koko in London in support of the Belarus Free Theatre, whose members have been imprisoned. Pussy Riot and the Ukrainian band, Boombox, were also on the bill. They were supposed to do their own set, but their singer Andriy had visa problems, so the rest of the band backed me for my set. We played ‘Wish You Were Here’ for Andriy that night.”
The video for the song was shot by director Mat Whitecross on the same day the track was recorded, March 30. “We recorded the track and video in our barn where we did all our Von Trapped Family live streams during lockdown. It’s the same room that we did the ‘Barn Jams’ with Rick Wright back in 2007,” Gilmour explains. “Janina Pedan made the set in a day and we had Andriy singing on the screen while we played, so the four of us had a vocalist, albeit not one who was physically present with us.”
Artwork for the track features a painting of a sunflower, the national flower of Ukraine, by Cuban artist Yosan Leon. It’s a reference to the woman seen around the world giving sunflower seeds to Russian soldiers and telling them to carry them in their pockets so when they die, sunflowers will grow.
Posted March 21, 2022 by Floydian Slip
Congratulations to our winners of “Through the Prism: Untold Rock Stories from the Hipgnosis Archive” by Aubrey Powell:
Prizes courtesy of Thames & Hudson.
Posted March 14, 2022 by Floydian Slip
Register to win a copy of the new book by Pink Floyd design alum Aubrey Powell: “Through the Prism: Untold Rock Stories from the Hipgnosis Archive.”
Designer, photographer and filmmaker Powell recounts behind-the-scenes stories of collaborations with legendary bands such as Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, The Who, The Police and … Pink Floyd.
Hardcover with 320 pages and more than 250 illustrations.
Prizes courtesy of Thames & Hudson.
Register now. Deadline to enter: March 20.
Posted March 7, 2022 by Floydian Slip
Congratulations to winners of the newly-reissued “Pulse” DVD:
Prizes courtesy of Sony Music.
Posted February 28, 2022 by Floydian Slip
Register to win a copy of the 1995 concert film “P.U.L.S.E.,” re-edited and reissued as a 2-DVD set including a disc of extras.
The video footage has been re-cut by Aubrey Powell/Hipgnosis from the original tape masters for the 2019 “The Later Years” boxset. The cover design, originally created by Storm Thorgerson and Peter Curzon for the 2006 DVD, has also been updated with photography by Powell and Rupert Truman/StormStudios.
This release also sees the reintroduction of the iconic pulsating light as per the original 1995 CD release, this time operated by two replaceable AA batteries.
Prizes courtesy of Sony Music. Winners responsible for postage.
Posted December 16, 2021 by Floydian Slip
Streaming services such as Spotify and Amazon have started offering a dozen Pink Floyd concert recordings from 1971.
The mysterious offerings might be an attempt by the band and its label to claim copyright of the works, as they’re all turning 50 years old this year. The band seems to have made a similar move when it issued six previously-unreleased songs as the EP “1965 — Their First Recordings” in 2015.
“The copyright law in Europe was recently extended from 50 to 70 years for everything recorded in 1963 and beyond,” a Sony representative told Rolling Stone in 2013. “With everything before that, there’s a new ‘Use It or Lose It’ provision. It basically said, ‘If you haven’t used the recordings in the first 50 years, you aren’t going to get any more.’”
A source close to the band tells “Floydian Slip” the recordings are “bootlegs” and might not remain permanently available.
Audio quality of the recordings is sketchy.
The titles include:
Posted December 16, 2021 by Floydian Slip
Sony Music will re-issue the 1994 Pink Floyd “Pulse” concert film on Blu-Ray and DVD on Feb. 18.
“P.U.L.S.E. Restored & Re-Edited” appears to be the same version of the David Mallet-directed film re-cut by Hipgnosis‘s Aubrey Powell that was included in 2019’s “The Later Years: 1987–2019” boxset.
This stand-alone reissue includes a pulsating light built into the package, similar to the original ’95 “Pulse” CD. (Better yet, the light is now operated by two replaceable AA batteries.)
“Essentially, it’s a device which we thought was entertaining,” drummer Nick Mason says of the light. “It’s an idea of Storm Thorgerson’s, which related to ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ and the pulse, and it’s a live album so the box is ‘alive.’
“After that, in terms of seriously deep meanings, one might be struggling a bit,” he adds.
The concert was recorded Oct. 20, 1994, at Earl’s Court in London, and includes a complete performances of the band’s “The Dark Side of the Moon.”
The two-disc set includes a variety of music videos, tour screen films, documentaries and additional material.
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