Pink Floyd - Richard Wright "Wearing The Inside Out"
Rchard Wright, who co-founded Pink Floyd in 1965 and played on all but one album in the band’s discography, died 10 years ago todayat the age of 65 after a battle with cancer. “It is hard to overstate the importance of his musical voice in the Pink Floyd of the Sixties and Seventies,” Waters said at the time in a statement. Wright’s jazzy piano and organ lines, his early songwriting credits and his venerable vocal performances were all hallmarks of Pink Floyd’s sound. “He was my musical partner and my friend,” Gilmour said. “In the welter of arguments about who or what was Pink Floyd, Rick’s enormous input was frequently forgotten.”
One of the most successful bands in the history of music allows visitors to take a look backstage. “The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains” grants visitors rare and unprecedented insights into the band’s 50-year history.
From 15 September 2018 onwards, this interactive multimedia exhibition will be based in the Dortmunder U, a city landmark visible from afar that is also an established centre for art and creativity.
Tickets can be reserved on eventim.de and also at all eventim reservation counters. After London and Rome, Dortmund will be the only place you can view the exhibition in Germany until 10 February 2019. Be prepared – it caused quite a stir when it was shown in the UK and Italy
The unique interactive exhibition in the Dortmunder U looks back at over five decades of iconic rock history and has a wide appeal that goes far beyond Pink Floyd fans. Using an intense combination of sound, text and image, the exhibition draws visitors in and allows them to experience what it feels like to be up on stage themselves.
Previously unreleased gig recordings, original instruments, unknown scribbles and many personal mementos from members of the British cult band make “The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains” an absolute must-see show for music lovers from Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland and beyond..
The Exhibition is open at the Dortmunder U from September 15th 2018 through till 10th February 2019 tickets can be purchased online by Clicking Here.
As we previously reported back in August , it has now been officially confirmed that Roger Waters, in conjunction with the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Orchestra, has been working on a new album – Igor Stravinksky’s The Soldier’s Tale – to be released via Sony Music Classical, on October 26th, 2018.
Due October 26th from Sony Classical Masterworks, Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale is a new adaptation of the narration for Stravinsky’s 1918 theatrical work solely for orchestra, where Waters is set to narrate the story and voice all of its characters. Waters worked with seven musicians associated with the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, forming an ensemble that sought to honor Stravinsky’s work while reinterpreting it for a new audience.
According to a press release, this project is but the latest in a string of forays into the world of high art for Waters. “Both here and in other works Waters certainly feels an affinity with this moment in the history of music whenever he has to decide how atonal to make his music. How radical should it be? And how is music related to the Classical and Romantic tradition? This is arguably the most important question that progressive music has to ask itself today.”
Waters’ choice of The Soldier’s Tale is serendipitous, give that “he has wanted for a long time to engage more deeply with the work of a composer whose weight and occasional inaccessibility may perhaps have much in common with” his own music.
Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale is set for release October 26th via Sony Classical Masterworks
Tracklisting and order details are available below
Part 1:
1. The Soldiers March
2. Slogging Homeword
3. Airs by a Stream
4. As You Can Hear…
5. The Soldiers March (Reprise)
6. Eventually, Joseph Reaches his Home Village…
7. Pastorale
8. The Soldier, Disconsolate…
9. Pastorale (Reprise)
10. The Soldier, Slowly Coming Back to Himself…
11. Airs by a Stream (Reprise) – To Stretch Out on the Grass…
12. Hey Satan, You Bastard…
13. Airs by a Stream (2nd Reprise)
14. Now to be Gained Here…
Part 2:
15. The Soldiers March (2nd Reprise) – Down a Hot and Dusty Track…
16. He Doesn’t Even Know Himself…
17. The Soldiers March (3rd Reprise) – Will he Take the Road to Home…
18. He doesn’t have a Home Anymore…
19. The Royal March
20. So all was Arranged…
21. Later that Night…
22. The Little Concert – Light Floods the Eastern Sky…
23. The Soldier, with a Confident Air…
24. Three Dances – Tango, Pt. 1
25. Three Dances – Tango, Pt. 2
26. Three Dances – Waltz & Ragtime
27. So First a Tango…
28. The Devil’s Dance
29. The Devil, Confused…
30. The Little Chorale
31. The Devil Recovers Some of his Wits
32. The Devil’s Song – All Right! You’ll be Safe at Home…
33. Hm, a Fair Warning…
34. Grand Chorale (Part 1)
35. Spring, Summer, Autumn…
36. Grand Chorale (Part 2)
37. Steady Now…
38. Grand Chorale (Part 3)
39. Steady, Just Smell the Flowers…
40. Grand Chorale (Part 4)
41. Now I have Everything…
42. Grand Chorale (Part 5)
43. The Princess, all Excited…
44. Grand Chorale (Part 6)
45. And so, Off They Go…
46. Triumphal March of the Devil
The Soldier’s Tale – Narrated By Roger Waters
You can pre-order the album from all the usual suspects such as Amazon and Itunes and Spotify Premium.
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Roger Waters & Lucius - Mother - Union Chapel, London - September 2018
Roger Waters & Lucius - Goodnight Irene - Union Chapel, London - September 2018
On the 6th September 2018 Roger Waters celebrates his 75th birthday. Unknown to those in the audience at Lucius’s concert at the Union Chapel in London, Roger decided to get up on stage with th rest of the band to perform Mother and Goodnight Irene..
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Nick Masons A Saucerful Of Secrets Tour Debuted Tonight In Cirkus, Stockholm we have been sent in some exclusive footage of the brand new stage show. With thanks to Stevie Klasson
The Soldier’s Tale is a music theater work for small ensemble, created by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky in collaboration with the Vaud poet Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz.
The work was written for a traveling theater consisting of a reader, two actors, a dancer and seven musicians. For the theater text Ramuz used two stories from a collection of Russian fairy tales by Alexander Afanasyev. The text is partly declamated rhythmically in poem form by the reader (Roger Waters) together with the music, partly spoken by the reader and the actors (soldier, devil) as a drama (with the reader mostly in rhymes and the devil only in dialogue with the soldier speaks).
The first German poetry (The History of the Soldier) comes from Hans Reinhart, the brother of the Winterthur music patron Werner Reinhart, who premiered the work (on September 28 and after Stravinsky’s memoirs on September 29, 1918 in the Théâtre Municipal de Lausanne under the direction of Ernest Ansermet) and to which this work is also dedicated.
In 1919 Stravinsky edited five movements of Histoire du soldat for violin, clarinet and piano, which appeared under the title Suite from ‘The Soldier’s Tale’.
The basis of the story consists of a soldier that exchanges his violin with the devil for a book promising great riches. He also has to teach the devil to play the violin within three days. In truth, however, pass three years, so that the soldier is considered a refugee. Back at home, he is no longer recognized, and his bride is married. With the help of the book, he becomes a rich merchant, but the money does not make him happy. Instead, he wishes to heal the sick princess through playing the violin. In a lost card game with the drunken devil, he gets the violin again, but he must not enter his home country. When he does, he is already expected by the devil. Again in possession of his violin, he heals by his play the princess, and they become a couple. Whether the soldier in the end follows the devil into his kingdom, remains open.
The moral of this simple fairy tale is: “One should not desire what one possesses, which was before. At the same time, one can not be who one is and who one was. You can not have everything. What was, does not return. “
In this brand new release Roger Waters took the part of narrator as well as that of the Devil and the Soldier when Stravinsky’s “The Soldier’s Tale” which is subsequently an addaption of when the story was performed by a host of artists including Roger live in 2008.
From a review of the 2008 show, The concert consisted of a 7 piece orchestra including an oboe, a bassoon, a trumpet, an trombone, a violin and viola, a cello (or bass – not sure which) and an assortment of percussion instruments including timpani. There were two performances before Roger’s, which were very technical and well done. The last performance was Igor Stravinsky’s “The Soldier’s Tale” in which Roger Waters was the narrator and played the voices of the devil and soldier.
We fully hope a full press release will be available shortly and are very excited to get our paws on this. This marks Rogers 2nd Classical release with the first being 2005’s Ca Ira.
The Soldiers Tale will be released on the 26th October 2018 On Sony Classical,
More information to follow as we get closer to the release.
The brand new issue of theUK’s Classic Rock magazineSeptember 2018, withIssue number 253is a detailed four page article that takes a close look atNick Mason’s new project – Saucerful Of Secrets – in which for the first time speaks to all five members of the band.
For those wondering where the idea came from, and how the band members were assembled, the details are revealed by the men themselves. With the European tour starting in just over a week in Stockholm, Sweden, and the Unattended Luggage limited edition box set coming out next Friday, it is little surprise that there is a strong focus on all things Nick at present.
Elsewhere in the magazine is a review of the box set, and a large review of the BST Hyde Park festival, which of course started withRoger Watersheadlining the first day, presenting an outdoor version of his currentUs + Them tour. There’s also a large interview with Slash about Guns n’ Roses, plus plenty of other articles to keep you busy.
Released Todayis ‘Unattended Luggage‘, a three album CD or vinyl box set Nick’s albums ‘Fictitious Sports‘, ‘Profiles‘ and ‘White of the Eye‘.
These limited edition box sets will be available shortly before our acclaimed new band Saucerful Of Secrets begin their European tour at Cirkus in Stockholm on September 2nd.
“‘Profiles‘ and ‘White of the Eye‘ were an extension of working with Rick Fenn on some advertising and short documentary film soundtracks, which then developed into something more.
“Listening back after 30 odd years, I’m delighted they are getting the reissue treatment. I’m rather hoping that sales will be sufficient to damage the market in the original rare vinyl versions!” –Nick Mason
The three individual albums will all be available as a download and through streaming platforms.
