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Video: “The Piper’s Call” by David Gilmour

Posted April 26, 2024 by Floydian Slip

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David Gilmour to release new album “Luck and Strange”

Posted April 24, 2024 by Floydian Slip

Sony Music will release “Luck and Strange,” a new studio album from David Gilmour, on Sept. 6.

Recorded over five months in Brighton and London, it’ll be Gilmour’s first album of new materials since 2015’s “Rattle That Lock.”

Produced by Gilmour and Charlie Andrew (alt-J, Marika Hackman), the album contains eight new tracks, as well as a cover of “Between Two Points” featuring Romany Gilmour, who is the daughter of Gilmour and Polly Samson. The original recording was released in 1999 by indie pop duo The Montgolfier Brothers on their “Seventeen Stars” album.

Musicians contributing to “Luck and Strange” include Guy Pratt and Tom Herbert on bass; Adam Betts, Steve Gadd, and Steve DiStanislao on drums; Rob Gentry and Roger Eno on keyboards; with string and choral arrangements by Will Gardner. Most of the album’s lyrics are by Samson.

The title track also features late Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright, recorded in 2007 at a jam that took place in a barn at Gilmour’s home.

Some recordings were taken from live streams Gilmour and his family performed during the lockdowns of 2020 and ’21.

“Polly and I have been writing together for over 30 years,” Gilmour says, “and the Von Trapped live streams showed the great blend of Romany’s voice and harp-playing and that led us into a feeling of discarding some of the past that I’d felt bound to and that I could throw those rules out and do whatever I felt like doing, and that has been such a joy.”

The album’s cover image, photographed and designed by Anton Corbijn, is inspired by a lyric written by Gilmour’s son, Charlie Gilmour, for the album’s final track, “Scattered.”

Songlist

Black Cat
Luck and Strange
The Piper’s Call
A Single Spark
Vita Brevis
Between Two Points — with Romany Gilmour
Dark and Velvet Nights
Sings
Scattered

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Roger Waters to release “Dark Side of the Moon Redux” picture disc

Posted April 19, 2024 by Floydian Slip

Cooking Vinyl will release a special picture disc version of Roger Waters‘s “The Dark Side of the Moon Redux” (2023) for Record Store Day.

The limited edition 1LP picture disc will be individually numbered in a die-cut sleeve. Only 3,000 copies will be pressed.

Record Store Day is tomorrow, Saturday, April 20. Independently-owned brick-and-mortar record stores around the world participate. Many recording artists will offer limited-edition products for sale tomorrow only.

“Redux” is a complete reimagining of Pink Floyd‘s seminal 1973 album. Read more: “Re-do of “Dark Side of the Moon” coming from Roger Waters.”

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Happy Birthday, David Gilmour

Posted March 6, 2024 by Floydian Slip

Happy 78th Birthday to David Gilmour (b. March 6, 1946, Grantchester, U.K.)

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David Gilmour photographed in studio

Posted December 24, 2023 by Floydian Slip

Photos published recently to Instagram by Polly Samson have sparked discussion her husband and writing partner David Gilmour might be working on a new album.

The photos are labeled as being shot at British Grove Studios in Chiswick, West London. That studio is owned by musician Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits).

Among those photographed along with Gilmour is producer Charlie Andrew, pianist Roger Eno (brother of Brian Eno), drummer Adam Betts, bassist Tom Herbert, long-time collaborator Guy Pratt, and Gilmour and Samson’s daughter Romany Gilmour.

Gilmour’s most-recent studio project was “Rattle That Lock,” released in 2015.

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Roger Waters makes Variety list of worst songs

Posted December 23, 2023 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters‘s 2023 re-recording of “Money” was named the 5th worst song of 2023 by Variety magazine.

“There’s something deeply perverse about doing a remake of one of the most-loved songs in the 1970s rock canon, cutting out the instrumental solos, and replacing David Gilmour’s contribution in the middle of the tune with a four-minute poem about… boxing,” Chris Willman writes. “If you’re looking for positive assessments of this bizarre re-do, it’s no surprise that they’re giving none away.”

The new version of “Money” is part of Waters’s “The Dark Side of the Moon Redux,” a re-recording of Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon,” which was released Oct. 6.

Variety’s Top 3 worst songs from this past years are:

“Try That in a Small Town”/Jason Aldean
“Vultures”/Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign featuring Bump J
“We Didn’t Start the Fire”/Fall Out Boy

See the full list here

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Radio KAOS’s Jim Ladd dies at 75

Posted December 18, 2023 by Floydian Slip

Radio personality Jim Ladd died Saturday at his home near Carmichael, CA. He was 75 and had suffered a heart attack.

The inspiration for Tom Petty‘s “The Last DJ,” Pink Floyd fans know Ladd for his appearance on Roger Waters‘s “Radio K.A.O.S.” album in 1987.

Ladd had been heard since 2011 on satellite radio Sirius XM, but his broadcasting roots went back to the heyday of FM radio with time logged at KMET and KLOS. He was also host of “Innerview,” a syndicated program that aired on more than 160 stations from 1974 to ’86.

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Nick Mason collaborator Carla Bley dies at 87

Posted November 23, 2023 by Floydian Slip

Carla Bley conducts her band at the Pori Jazz Festival in Finland, July 1978 Avant-garde composer Carla Bley, who wrote Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason‘s 1981 album “Fictitious Sports,” died Oct. 17. She was 87.

A prominent figure in the “free jazz” movement of the 1960s, the California-native released more than two dozen albums from 1966 to 2019.

She might best be known for her jazz opera “Escalator Over the Hill” (1973). Originally released on three LPs, it featured Jack Bruce of Cream and vocals by Linda Ronstadt. Melody Maker magazine named it Album of the Year.

Her collaboration with Mason easily could have been called “Carla Bley’s Fictitious Sports.” It was she who wrote all of the album’s numbers, played keyboards throughout and co-produced the effort with Mason. But as a member of the Floyd, Mason was guaranteed a hefty advance for any solo album, perhaps one reason his name graced the cover.

Bley was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2018. She succumbed to the illness at her home in Willow, N.Y., outside Woodstock. “Fictitious Sports” had been recorded at Bley’s Grog Kill Studio in that home’s basement in October ’79.

Photo: Carla Bley conducts her band at the Pori Jazz Festival in Finland, July 1978.

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