Posted May 8, 2017 by Floydian Slip
Sony/Columbia has released “Déjà Vu,” the second single from Roger Waters‘ upcoming new album “Is This the Life We Really Want?”
Formerly known as “If I Had Been God,” the song is available from iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and other online outlets.
“Déjà Vu” follows the release of the first single, “Smell the Roses,” last month.
“Is This the Life We Really Want?” drops Friday, June 2.
Waters will appear tonight on CBS TV‘s “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” The show airs at 11:35 p.m. EDT.
Posted April 20, 2017 by Floydian Slip
The release date for “Is This the Life We Really Want?,” the new album from Roger Waters, has been delayed by two weeks. Originally scheduled for May 19, Columbia Records will now release it globally on Friday, June 2.
Pre-orders for the album begin tomorrow in three formats: double 180-gram vinyl LP in a gatefold jacket, four-panel soft pack CD, and digital.
A Columbia press release describes the album as “an unflinching commentary on the modern world and uncertain times” and “a natural successor to classic Pink Floyd albums such as ‘Animals’ and ‘The Wall.'”
It’s produced and mixed by Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Paul McCartney, Beck, U2).
Tracklist for the album is as follows:
Lyrics for “Wait for Her” were written by Waters and inspired by an English translation by an unknown author of “Lesson from the Kama Sutra (Wait for Her)” by Mahmoud Darwish.
Musicians on “Is This the Life We Really Want?” are: Waters (vocals, acoustic, bass), Godrich (arrangement, sound collages, keyboards, guitar), Gus Seyffert (bass, guitar, keyboards), Jonathan Wilson (guitar, keyboards), Joey Waronker (drums), Roger Manning (keyboards), Lee Pardini (keyboards), and Lucius (vocals) with Jessica Wolfe and Holly Proctor.
Waters will launch his North American “Us + Them” tour in Kansas City, MO, on Friday, May 26. The tour runs through Oct. 28, finishing in Vancouver, BC.
See the Roger Waters website for complete and up-to-date concert dates.
Posted April 17, 2017 by Floydian Slip
Register to win Pink Floyd’s “Reverber/ation” CD/DVD/Blu-ray set. One of the boxes found within the massive “Early Years” boxset released in November, it includes rare and unreleased music and video from 1971, along with replica memorabilia from the period.
Prizes courtesy of Legacy Recordings/Pink Floyd Records.
Register to win now. Deadline to enter: end of day Sunday, April 23.
Posted March 21, 2017 by Floydian Slip
Legacy Recordings will release an early, previously-unreleased version of Pink Floyd‘s “Interstellar Overdrive” on April 15.
Recorded Nov. 31, 1966, at Thomson Studio in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, the nearly-15-minute piece features Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Rick Wright and Roger Waters.
A shorter version of the instrumental appeared on Floyd’s first album, “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn,” in August 1967.
The 12-inch one-sided single comes a week before Record Store Day; and will be available for sale at “Their Mortal Remains,” the massive Floyd exhibition opening at the Victoria & Albert’s Museum in London in May.
With artwork taken from an early UFO gig, the 180-gram disc will come with a fold-out poster and postcard featuring the group.
This recording would seem to pre-date the version featured in the Peter Whitehead film “Tonight Let’s All Make Love in London,” and available on the EP “Pink Floyd: London ’66-’67.” Clocking in at just less than 17 minutes, that version was recorded at London’s Sound Techniques on Jan. 11 and 12, 1967.
Posted March 3, 2017 by Floydian Slip
Roger Waters released another snippet from his new album.
“Is This the Life We Really Want” will hit stores May 19.
Posted February 24, 2017 by Floydian Slip
The six boxes that compose this past November’s massive boxset “The Early Years: 1965-1972” will be released individually March 24.
The boxes — Cambridge St/Ation, Germin/Ation, Dramatis/Ation, Devi/Ation, Reverb/Ation and OBFUSC/ation — will sell for between $45-50 each.
A sampler of the boxset, Cre/ation, was released at the time of the boxset, Nov. 11.
Posted February 24, 2017 by Floydian Slip
Roger Waters has confirmed his upcoming album “Is This the Life We Really Want?” will be released on May 19.
He dropped the date in a new interview with Rolling Stone published yesterday.
In the interview he talks about inspiration he’s drawn from the recent presidential election, the new album’s shift away from an earlier radio play concept, and plans for his 2017 tour.
Posted February 16, 2017 by Floydian Slip
“Is This the Life We Really Want?” will be the title of the upcoming album from Roger Waters.
The Pink Floyd co-founder and long-time solo artist revealed the title with a short video clip that includes, presumably, music from the album.
No release date has been announced.
Posted October 12, 2016 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd has released a newly remixed version of “Childhood’s End” from its 1972 album “Obscured by Clouds.”
The track is another tease from the upcoming box set “The Early Years: 1965-1972,” coming Nov. 11.
The track was remixed by Andy Jackson and Damon Iddins.
“Obscured by Clouds” is the soundtrack to the Barbet Schroeder film “La Vallée.”
Several remixed tracks from the album will appear in the boxset, along with the entire film.
Posted September 13, 2016 by Floydian Slip
Register to win a copy of Pete Townshend’s Deep End: Face the Face, a DVD/CD double-disc performance from 1986 featuring David Gilmour.
Prizes courtesy of Eagle Rock Entertainment. Deadline to enter: End of day Sunday, Sept. 18.
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