Waters sings throughout, but only actually plays an instrument on one track, a terrific bass solo on Us and Them, which made me wish he’d played across the whole thing it seems such a missed opportunity. Others on the album include Waters’s multi-instrumentalist collaborator Gus Seyffert, and Seyffert’s girlfriend, Azniv Korkejian (a brilliant Syria-born singer who performs as Bedouine), plus a Baptist minister on Hammond organ. So why has he remade it? “ Because not enough people recognised what it’s about, what it was I was saying then.” This new version, he hopes, will hammer the point home.Īlways following The Voice of Reason is good advice, or would be, if so many of history’s most unreasonable voices hadn’t presented themselves as precisely that. It was the message of the 1973 Dark Side, too, he says. This somehow ties in to his grand idea about following “ the voice of reason” – in this dream, a bonfire with the voice of Atticus Finch – a phrase he uses constantly in the Telegraph interview, and which he says is the theme of the album. Now they do.Īfter a bad dream one night, he splurged down a description of it on his laptop, and recites the whole dreadful prose poem over On The Run unedited: “ It was a revelation, almost Patmosian whatever that means… a fight with evil, in this case an apparently all-powerful hooded and cloaked figure… it brooked no rebuttal.” Waters seems to have decided that what was wrong with the original album’s beautiful instrumental tracks was that they didn’t have Waters talking all over them. So… blah!” (Waters, who wrote the album’s lyrics, is credited with composing three of its 10 tracks, and co-writing music for two others. Let’s get rid of all this ‘we’ c–p! Of course we were a band there were four of us, we all contributed, but it’s my project, and I wrote it. Waters is adamant that the Dark Side is his to muck about with however he sees fit. A big concert that was meant to launch it in March has also been postponed to May and moved to a different venue. The album’s original March release date has been pushed back to May because Waters hasn’t finished tinkering with the recordings. Whilst these songs were initially released on Rogers official YouTube and Facebook platforms during the pandemic all material has been remixed and remastered for this standalone release.įans can stream this via Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Prime, Deezer and all other streaming services from midnight 8th December and digital download versions can be bought via Highresaudio.Roger Waters recently revealed new details about the re-recording of “ The Dark Side of the Moon” in a new interview with the Telegraph. Various songs were recorded and posted on Rogers’ official YouTube channel, including “ Two Suns In The Sunset And The Gunners Dream” from Pink Floyd’s 1983 The Final Cut album, “ Mother, Vera, and Bring The Boys Back Home” from 1979’s Pink Floyd The Wall, and a new arrangement of “ The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range” from Rogers’ 1992 Amused To Death album and the new version of the recently released This Is Not A Drill Tour’s “ Comfortably Numb”. With a release date announced for the 9th December, Roger Waters has posted the news of his “ Lockdown Sessions,” which were recorded between 20 during the COVID-19 global pandemic. We are pleased to confirm that a release date has been set for Friday 9th December 2022. On the 25th November 2022 we broke the news that Roger Waters was preparing to release the much talked about ‘ Lockdown Sessions‘ that were recorded remotely during the Covid-19 global pandemic.
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