Recordings

Swedish duo covers “Julia Dream”

Posted December 29, 2009 by Floydian Slip

Fruits de Mer Records has released a re-recording of Pink Floyd’s 1968 single “Julia Dream” by Swedish duo Us and Them.

The song, a medley of the Floyd number written by Roger Waters and the traditional nursery rhyme “All the Pretty Horses,” appears on a limited edition 7-inch vinyl EP along with two other covers: “Dialogue,” originally by Jackson C. Frank, and “Home to Stay,” first recorded by Tudor Lodge.

The “ice”-colored record plays at 33.3 RPM and comes enclosed in an 8-page full-color booklet containing lyrics.

This is the eighth release from the Surrey-based Fruits de Mer Records, which boasts it “loses money on every release and we love it.” The company, in business for 18 months, has previously released re-recordings of songs originally by Small Faces, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Nick Drake, Caravan, Kraftwerk, Van der Graaf Generator, Nico and others.

This latest release is available for $8 (Â£5) directly from the label: www.fruitsdemerrecords.com, or at a handful of U.K.-based retailers: Piccadilly Records, Norman Records, Heyday Mail Order and Rough Trade.

The title isn’t yet listed at the label’s Web site, but you can contact them directly to purchase: fruitsdemer7@hotmail.com.

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Flaming Lips’ “Dark Side” available for pre-order

Posted December 19, 2009 by Floydian Slip

The Flaming Lips‘ cover of Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” is available for pre-order at the iTunes Store. The album will be released Dec. 22 on iTunes, and at other download sites at a later date.

The 10-track album costs $9.99. None of the tracks is available for purchase alone.

Read our previous posts about the project:

Flaming Lips to cover “Dark Side” (Oct. 16, 2009)
Video: Flaming Lips play “Eclipse” (Oct. 24, 2009)
Flaming Lips to do “Dark Side” live (Dec. 2, 2009)

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Nick Mason lends voice to charity single

Posted October 19, 2009 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason will be heard on a new track to be released Nov. 1 to benefit a children’s charity.

Nick will drum — and sing! — on a cover of The Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love.” The track will appear on “Bandaged Together,” a double-album to benefit the BBC’s Children in Need charity.

The track, which also features Bryan Ferry, Peter Gabriel, and Bill Wyman, was recorded last month at EMI’s Abbey Road studio.

Nick’s track will be available as a download beginning Nov. 1. “Bandaged Together” will go on sale Nov. 9. You’ll be able to place your order online.

This will be the second “Bandaged Together” album. The first raised £250,000 for the charity.

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Flaming Lips to cover “Dark Side”

Posted October 16, 2009 by Floydian Slip

Oklahoma psych-rockers Flaming Lips’ next album will be a track-for-track “interpretation” of Pink Floyd’s 1973 masterpiece “The Dark Side of the Moon.”

The L.A. Times reports Lips frontman Wayne Coyne (pictured) made the announcement during a Q&A session with the audience before Thursday night’s show at the Ricardo Montalban Theater in Hollywood.

The Times says the recording, which is a collaboration with Stardeath and the White Dwarfs, a band that features Coyne’s nephew, Dennis, is already finished.

Henry Rollins and Peaches make guest appearances.

The Lips’ “Dark Side” will likely be an iTunes-only release, at least initially.

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Unreleased David Gilmour material part of new compilation

Posted October 5, 2009 by Floydian Slip

Recordings featuring Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour are part of a new 2-CD compilation.

“Join Together” by producer Tom Newman and musician Peter Gibson, includes previously unreleased material recorded by Newman at his Argonaut Studios in London, between 1977-1982.

Mike Oldfield and occasional Floyd guitarist Snowy White also appear on some tracks.

Newman is most famous for producing Oldfield’s “Tubular Bells.” Gibson is part of Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts.

The new disc is available online from Well Alright.

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The Orb recording with David Gilmour

Posted October 2, 2009 by Floydian Slip

The List reports electronica duo The Orb is recording with Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour.

“I’ve just started work on an album with David Gilmore (sic) from Pink Floyd, which I think every Orb and Pink Floyd fan will want to hear,” Orb founder Alex Paterson told the Scottish magazine.

The band’s first album, “Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld” (1991), featured the Battersea Power station on its cover, reminiscent of Floyd’s “Animals” (1977).

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Jazz cover of “Vera” coming

Posted September 26, 2009 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters’ “Vera” will be covered by Curtis Stigers on his upcoming album “Lost in Dreams.”

The song, which appeared on Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” in 1979, will be included in a medley with “We’ll Meet Again,” the wartime ballad that’s the trademark song of British vocalist Vera Lynn, the subject of Waters’ song.

Stigers says he got the idea for combining the songs in 1995 while in England during the 50th anniversary of V-E Day.

“I thought, ‘God, wouldn’t it be cool to put these two songs together,'” he says. “I filed the idea away, and then I brought it up with Scrapper (co-producer John “Scrapper” Sneider) when we were talking about songs for this record. His eyes lit up and he said, ‘That’s perfect. What a great idea.'”

“Lost in Dreams” will be released Sept. 29 by the Concord Jazz label.

Purchase “Medley: Vera/We’ll Meet Again” as an MP3 download. Or purchase the entire “Lost in Dreams” album online now.

All purchases help support “Floydian Slip.”

(Photo: Andy Lawless)

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David Gilmour covers “Chicago”

Posted July 15, 2009 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has joined other artists in re-recording Graham Nash‘s “Chicago.” The new recording is part of an effort to help British computer hacker Gary McKinnon avoid extradition to the United States.

Bob Geldof and Chrissie Hynde also appear on the track, which was produced by Chris Thomas (“Dark Side of the Moon”).

McKinnon is accused of causing more than a half-million dollars of damage by hacking into nearly 100 federal and military computers in the United States. McKinnon, who is a UFO fanatic, says he was looking for evidence of extra-terrestrial life.

McKinnon has Asperger’s syndrome, which has turned his plight into a wider discussion of treatment of those with autism.

Nash’s song, written in the aftermath of the conflict at the 1968 Democratic party convention in Chicago and subsequent trial of the “Chicago Seven,” has been rewritten by KcKinnon’s mother, Janis Sharp, to include new lyrics.

You can download the song here after making a donation of any size to benefit McKinnon’s cause. Funds go to the Autism Research Centre (ARC) and the National Autistic Society (NAS).

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Trashcan Sinatras to release tribute to Syd Barrett

Posted September 22, 2008 by Floydian Slip

Trashcan Sinatras will release “Oranges and Apples,” a song inspired by the late Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett.

The song will be available as a download Oct. 13, and will be included on the band’s upcoming album “In the Music.”

“Oranges and Apples,” the title of which is a play on the Barrett-penned Floyd single “Apples and Oranges,” is being released in conjuntion with “The City Awakes” event. That 10-day celebration of the work of Barrett will be held Oct. 22 to Nov. 1 in Cambridge, England.

Trashcan Sinatras are a Scottish band formed in 1987.

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New album/DVD from David Gilmour coming in September

Posted August 6, 2008 by Floydian Slip

Sony/Columbia will release “Live at GdaÅ„sk,” a double live album and concert DVD by David Gilmour, on Sept. 22 in the U.K., the following day in the U.S.

The concert, performed in front of an audience of 50,000 at the GdaÅ„sk shipyards in Poland, was the only show of the Summer ’06 tour that included an orchestra. The 40-piece Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zbigniew Preisner, joined Gilmour on stage. Preisner also handled orchestral arrangements on Gilmour’s “On an Island” album.

“Live at GdaÅ„sk” will come in a number of different packages: 2-, 3-, 4- and 5-disc versions, containing a variety of CDs and DCDs; as well as a 5-LP box, which comes with a pass to download the entire thing in MP3 format.

Learn more at the official David Gilmour site.

Order your copy of “Live at GdaÅ„sk” online now.

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