Posted April 3, 2023 by Floydian Slip
Congratulations to our winner of “The Dark Side of the Moon” 50th anniversary boxset:
Dan Marsh
Media, PA
Runners-up win LP copies of “The Dark Side of the Moon: Live At Wembley”:
Matt Cooper
Waterloo, ON
Jason Harding
Missoula, MT
All prizes courtesy of Legacy/Sony Music.
Posted March 9, 2023 by Floydian Slip
Enter for your chance to win a 50th anniversary deluxe boxset of The Dark Side of the Moon and a shopping spree at the Pink Floyd Official Store.
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Posted February 10, 2023 by Floydian Slip
Roger Waters revealed he has re-recorded Pink Floyd‘s 1973 album “The Dark Side of the Moon.” He broke the news to German newspaper Berliner Zeitung Feb. 4, and provided more details to the U.K.’s The Telegraph on Feb. 8.
Roger is one of only a handful of people to appear on the redo, which he began months ago without the participation or knowledge of any of his former Floyd bandmates.
“I’m the only one singing my songs on these new recordings, and there are no rock and roll guitar solos,” he told Berliner Zeitung.
“The new concept is meant to reflect on the meaning of the work, to bring out the heart and soul of the album — musically and spiritually.”
In addition to Waters, his long-time collaborator Gus Seyffert plays keyboards on the new work; and Seyffert’s girlfriend, Bedouine, provides backing vocals.
“I wrote The Dark Side of the Moon. Let’s get rid of all this ‘we’ c—p!,” he told The Telegraph. “Of course we were a band, there were four of us, we all contributed. But it’s my project and I wrote it. So blah!”
The album will be released in May, according to The Telegraph.
News of the redux album was overshadowed by an inflammatory tweet posted by David Gilmour‘s wife and writing partner Polly Samson, perhaps in response to Waters’s German interview.
“Sadly @rogerwaters you are antisemitic to your rotten core,” Samson posted to Twitter. “Also a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac. Enough of your nonsense.”
Gilmour retweeted the post, and added “Every word demonstrably true.”
Waters acknowledged Samson’s tweet by posting to social media: “Roger Waters is aware of the incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments made about him on Twitter by Polly Samson which he refutes entirely. He is currently taking advice as to his position.”
Posted December 9, 2022 by Floydian Slip
Sony Music today released Roger Waters‘s “The Lockdown Sessions” on all digital music platforms.
The collection of six songs were recorded remotely by Waters and his band during Covid lockdown; with the final track coming from a live show during his North American “This Is Not a Drill” tour:
The tracks were produced by Waters and Gus Seyffert. Appearing on the recordings are Waters – Vocals, Guitar and Piano; Seyffert – Bass, Cellos and Vocals; Joey Waronker – Drums and Percussion; Dave Kilminster – Guitar and Rhythm Guitar; Jonathan Wilson – Guitar and Vocals; Jon Carin – Keyboards and Vocals; Lucius (Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig) – Vocals; Bo Koster – Hammond (on all tracks except “Mother”); and Ian Ritchie – Saxophone (“Two Suns in the Sunset”).
Videos of the first five were originally posted by Waters on social media during ’20 and ’21. The videos were produced and directed by Sean Evans. “Comfortably Numb” was released last month.
“Our ‘Us and Them Tour’ lasted three years. At every gig we did an encore after the main show closed with ‘Comfortably Numb.’ The encore was always ‘Mother.’ I can’t remember why I decided to start doing other songs,” Waters says.
“At some point after the end of the tour, I started thinking, ‘It could make an interesting album, all those encores.’ ‘The Encores.’ Yeah, has a nice ring to it!
“Then I’m in England doing the Ginger Baker tribute gig one Tuesday night at the Hammersmith Odeon with Eric Clapton and the following Saturday marching from The Australian Embassy to Parliament Square to make a speech in support of Julian Assange, when bugger me, Covid. Schlummmm! For me it was Friday, March 13th, 2020. Lockdown! So much for the ‘Encores’ project. Unless,” he adds.
“We’ve tacked ‘Comfortably Numb’ on the end of the collection, as an appropriate exclamation point in closing this circle of love.”
Waters first announced his intention of releasing the collection under the title “The Lockdown Sessions” during a podcast appearance last month. “I’ve given all these things away,” he said. “They’re all out there. Anybody can find them on the internet.”
Posted November 26, 2022 by Floydian Slip
David Gilmour is featured on two tracks from the new Donovan album,”Gaelia,” which drops Dec. 2.
The first Gilmour recording, “Rock Me,” has been released ahead of the album. The other track is “Lover O’ Lover.”
Donovan explains his connection to Gilmour goes back to the ’60s, when the Pink Floyd guitarist purchased Donovan’s cottage. “He said my album track ‘Three Kingfishers,’ off my ‘Sunshine Superman’ album of 1966, had launched him in a celestial music direction,” according to Donovan. “And so when I was selling my cottage, where so many of my songs were written, he wanted to be in my creative space. Makes sense in a Floyd sort of way.
“David had already learned to fly (he wrote a song about it, too ) and flew himself in to Ireland for the session,” he adds. “David brought his guitar roadie, who set up two amps in the studio, handed David his pink Strat, and his unique signature sound enthralled us all.”
Posted November 18, 2022 by Floydian Slip
Sony Music released today “Comfortably Numb 2022,” a new recording of the Pink Floyd classic from Roger Waters‘s recent “This Is Not a Drill” tour.
The new track is available on streaming platforms.
“During lockdown I made a demo of a new version of ‘Comfortably Numb‘ as an opener for our new show,” Waters explains. “I pitched it a whole step down, in A Minor, to make it darker and arranged it with no solos, except over the outro chord sequence, where there is a heartrendingly beautiful female vocal solo from Shanay Johnson, one of our new singers.”
The accompanying video was produced and directed by Sean Evans. Photography by Kate Izor.
The track was produced by Waters and Gus Seyffert. Appearing on the track are Waters, vocals; Gus Seyffert , bass, synth, percussion, vocals; Joey Waronker, drums; Dave Kilminster, vocals; Jonathan Wilson, harmonium, synth, guitar and vocals; Jon Carin, synth, Vocals; Johnson, vocals; Amanda Belair, vocals; Robert Walter, organ/piano; Nigel Godrich, strings, amp and backing vocals from Roger Waters The Wall Sessions.
Waters’s “This Is Not A Drill” will tour Europe in 2023 with 40 shows across 14 European countries, starting in Lisbon on March 17, 2023, at Altice Arena.
Watch the video:
Posted September 28, 2022 by Floydian Slip
The Sept. 16 re-issue of Pink Floyd‘s 1977 “Animals” album has propelled it back onto the charts.
According to Luminate, “Animals” re-entered Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart at #3 the week ending Sept. 22, with 20,000 copies sold in the U.S. That’s a 40x increase in sales from the previous week’s 500 copies sold.
The album also tops the Catalog Albums chart at #1, and appears at #21 on the Billboard Top 200. It also makes Top 5 appearances on Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums, Tastemaker Albums and Vinyl Albums.
Posted June 30, 2022 by Floydian Slip
The long-awaited remix of Pink Floyd’s 1977 “Animals” album is coming to LP, CD, Blu-Ray and SACD this fall.
Dubbed the “Animals 2018 Remix,” this new version has been in the works for four years; and delayed, in part, by disagreements among the band members, especially Roger Waters and David Gilmour. (See “Roger Waters posts contentious liner notes; announces memoirs” [June 1, 2021])
The deluxe four-disc version, dropping Oct. 7, will consist of one (1) LP on 180-gram black heavyweight vinyl, one (1) CD, one (1) DVD, one (1) Blu-ray and a 32-page booklet all housed in a hardcover book-style cover.
The Blu-ray, SACD and DVD discs will contain a 5.1 Surround Sound remix by James Guthrie and Joel Plante, the same pair who remixed the new stereo version. Each individual disc will be available as a stand-alone release Sept. 16.
The booklet will feature rarely-seen behind the scenes photographs of the album sleeve shoot, along with live images and memorabilia.
The album artwork has been reimagined for this new release as well. The original, conceived by Waters and designed by Storm Thorgerson, featured a huge inflatable pig floating among the chimneys of the Battersea Power Station. It’s become one of the most recognizable images of all the band’s iconography.
Thorgerson’s one-time partner in Hipgnosis, Aubrey “Po” Powell, took new photographs of Battersea as it appeared during recent renovations. (Listen to our 2015 interview with Powell, who recounts the original “Animals” cover shoot.)
“With the original 1977 album cover being such an iconic piece of stand-alone art, I had the chance to update it, which was a rather daunting task, but Hipgnosis took the opportunity to re-photograph the image to reflect a changing world,” Powell says, “and by using modern digital coloring techniques I kept Pink Floyd’s rather bleak message of moral decay using the Orwellian themes of animals, the pig ‘Algie,’ faithful to the message of the album.”
It’s unclear whether Powell’s team actually floated a dirigible porcine above the plant for this reshoot or opted for digital techniques.
Animals was the tenth studio album by Floyd, originally released in January 1977. It was recorded at the band’s Britannia Row Studios in London during 1976 and early-’77, and was produced by the band. The original release peaked at #2 in the U.K. and #3 in the U.S.
Warner Music will release the album in Europe, while Sony Music will handle the international release.
Posted June 23, 2022 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd will release a 7-inch vinyl edition and CD single of “Hey Hey Rise Up” on July 15 in Europe.
Initially released digitally in April in support of the people of Ukraine, the track reached #1 in 27 countries.
Both formats will also feature a newly-reworked, previously-unreleased version of “A Great Day for Freedom” taken from the band’s 1994 album, “The Division Bell.”
The lead track sees David Gilmour and Nick Mason joined by long time Pink Floyd bass player Guy Pratt and Nitin Sawhney on keyboards; and features vocals by Andriy Khlyvnyuk of Ukrainian band Boombox.
When the track was first recorded at the end of March, Khlyvnyuk, who left his band’s U.S. tour to return home and fight for his country, was in a hospital bed in Kyiv recovering from a shrapnel injury. Proceeds for the physical release and the ongoing digital proceeds will go to Ukraine humanitarian relief.
Japan will see the release Aug. 3; and the U.S., Canada, Australia and Mexico will see it Oct. 21.
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!'”
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