The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains Roma
With the Pink Floyd : Their Mortal Remains Exhibition finishing its residency in Rome, what better way than to have a recap of all the exciting objects taking place in this fantastic exhibition.
Now is your last chance to visit Their Mortal Remains, The exhibition must close in Rome on Sunday 20th May, before it moves to Germany.
Opening at the Barbican Centre on April 9th –Inside Abbey Road is a unique and personal insight into the long and decorated history of the studios and the artists working within it, as told through the lens of one of the world’s most prolific and well-loved rock photographers.
Featuring candid shots of Pink Floyd recording ‘Wish You Were Here‘, and intimate portraits of some of the most renowned musical legends to frequent the studios, the exhibition will be free to attend and showcases Jill Furmanovsky’s finest music photography alongside some rare musical artifacts and images from Abbey Road’s 86-year history.
Inside Abbey Road: Through the Lens of Jill Furmanovskyis a free exhibition being held at The Barbican Music Library in London. The exhibition begins on April 9th and will last until June 27th. It will be free to visit.
Pink Floyd’s 1995 live album Pulse has been remastered and is to be reissued as a 4LP set in May
Originally released in 1995,Pulse was recorded as Floyd toured across the UK and Europe in support of their 14th studio album The Division Bellin 1994.
The remastered version will be presented as a 4LP set and pressed on 180g heavyweight vinyl and will launch on May 18.
The album will include four different inner sleeves and come with a 52-page hardback photo book encased in a thick card slipcase. It will also feature One Of These Days, which was only included on the LP and cassette version of Pulse upon its original release.
Pulse 2018 was remastered from the original tapes by James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman. Aubrey Powell of Hipgnosis and Peter Curzon – who worked on the original art with the late Hipgnosis co-founder Storm Thorgerson – recreated the art package.
Identity is the only album byZee, a short-lived side project of Pink Floyd keyboardist Rick Wright, a duo partnership consisting of Wright and Dave Harris of New Romantic outfit Fashion, released in 1984. The album was written and produced by Wright and Harris and all the lyrics were penned by Harris.
The album makes heavy use of the Fairlight CMI, a musical synthesizer popularized in the 1980s. This creates a very electronic sound that persists through every track.
Due to the death of Richard Wright in 2008, Dave Harris has decided to re-release the album with additional material that never made it onto the original release aswell as adding new textures to the original release.
With a release later this year after numerous legal set backs we are really excited to here some of the new material that has surfaced.
Thanks to the wonderful power of the internet we have been in regular contact with Dave who has very kindly agreed to give us his time to answer questions related to the Zee project.
(Above Video Of Stephen Performing “Keep Talking” from the Division Bell with Floyd Tribute Anathema)
We are saddened by the loss of the great Stephen Hawking and our thoughts are with his family at this time. A testament to his generosity and humour he was featured on “Keep Talking” on Pink Floyd’s The Division Bell and “Talkin’ Hawkin” from The Endless River albums.
Our condolences go out to the family and friends of Claudia Fontaine who died this week. As well as working with artists including Dusty Springfield and Annie Lennox, Claudia was a much-loved backing vocalist on The Division Bell Tour as well as on David’s Meltdown performances at the Royal Festival Hall in 2001 and 2002.
” It was a privilege to work with Claudia, to have her spine-tingling vocals in the mix, to look across and see her high-voltage smile. ” – David Gilmour
” Le Trio Joubran and I have collaborated to perform an excerpt from an epic poem by the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. On the surface it narrates the last speech of The Native American to The White Man, but it speaks also to Darwish’s beloved Palestine, and its indigenous people, in fact to all victims of settler colonialism everywhere, always. ” – Roger Waters
Credits:
Music – Trio Joubran
Voice – Roger Waters
Poem – Mahmoud Darwish
Poem Translation – Fady Joudah & Roger Waters
Music Producer – Renaud Letang
Recorded at – Abbey Road Studios & Studio Ferber
Video director – Adnan JoubranFor further information please visit Le Trio Joubran’s official website by clicking here
Lucius - Goodnight, Irene ft. Roger Waters (Official Music Video)
” Got a call from, Jess and Holly, “Let’s record ‘Goodnight Irene’”, Me, “Ok where and when?” Jess and Holly, “Electric Lady 45 rpm phone booth, tomorrow” Me, “Ok”. The next day, Me,”Here I is!” Jess and Holly, “Lets do it”, Me “Who’s playing guitar?” Jess and Holly “You are” Me “I haven’t got a guitar” Jess and Holly “we’ll lend you one.” Me “what key’s it in?” Jess and Holly, E major, Me “lets do it, paste the words on the back of the phone booth”, Jess and Holly, “You can’t remember the words?”, Me,”Get in that fucking booth, young lady”.
And here ’tis, one take, a track off the new Lucius Album NUDES, with love for my gorgeous girls and great respect and deference to Huddie Ledbetter! ” – Roger Waters
To celebrate Record Store Day 2018 (Saturday 21st April)
Pink Floyd will release the band’s debut album ‘The Piper At The Gates of Dawn’ on vinyl, with a new mono 2018 remaster by James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman.
Remastered from the original 1967 mono mix, the release is the latest from Pink Floyd Records, which has recently marked global sales of over 1 million vinyl LPs since its launch in June 2016.
The limited-edition Record Store Day release is delivered on premium 12” 180-gram black vinyl, and comes paired with an exclusive poster (540 x 388mm on art paper), as well as a foil blocked outer wallet.
Written and performed by Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Richard Wright and Nick Mason, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is the only studio album to be released under Barrett’s leadership.
The album, recorded with producer Norman Smith at Abbey Road Studios, features songs that remained on the band’s live setlist for many years, such as ‘Astronomy Domine’ and ‘Interstellar Overdrive’.
The album’s original cover artwork, shot by photographer Vic Singh, was captured through a prism lens that Beatles guitarist George Harrison gave him. This same lens is now on display as part of The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains, currently at Rome’s MACRO museum.
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn is released via Record Store Day at Participating Stores ONLY(Not Available Online !!) on 21st April.
For more details, including participating stores, you can head over to the official Record Store Day website by Clicking Here
