Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has indicated a Pink Floyd anthology and catalog reissue might be in the works.
His comments appear in an interview published in the recent issue of Rhythm magazine.
“We’ve been developing the idea of a Pink Floyd anthology for a long time. I’ve spent quite a lot of time trying to find the material. I really enjoy that, but it’s time consuming,” he says.
“We’re talking about doing a big reissue of the Pink Floyd catalogue because there is the belief that there eventually will be the point that there simply won’t be enough market to generate those sort of packages. That would be a tragedy, so it’s a good time to do it.”
The Orb’s “Metallic Spheres” album, to be released this fall, will feature guitar work by Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour.
Gilmour’s contributions come from a jam session with Martin “Youth” Glover (Killing Joke), originally intended only for an ambient remix of “Chicago,” the Graham Nash song Gilmour helped re-record to benefit alleged UK computer hacker and cause celebreGary McKinnon.
“Metallic Spheres” will be released in October, with all artist royalties going to benefit McKinnon’s plight to fight extradition to the United States.
There will be two versions of the CD release: A standard, single-disc version; and a two-disc deluxe set. The deluxe version will include the standard CD, along with a second disc presenting the material in 3D60™ sound.
3D60™ is a new sound production process developed by Glover, sound engineer Mike Brady (The Jam) and Ian Thompson that simulates three-dimensional sound without any special equipment needed.
The album will also be available on vinyl and as a download on iTunes.
This fall, EMI/Harvest will release “An Introduction to Syd Barrett,” a compilation of remixed and remastered songs Pink Floyd’s co-founder recorded with the band and during his brief solo career.
The title will include as a bonus track “Rhamadan,” a previously unreleased Barrett recording, to be made available as a download.
Floyd’s David Gilmour is Executive Producer of the album. Working with Damon Iddins and Andy Jackson at his Astoria houseboat studio, he’s remixed six tracks for the project: “Matilda Mother”; “Here I Go”; “Octopus”; “She Took a Long Cold Look,” renamed here “She Took a Long Cool Look”; “Octopus”; and “Here I Go,” which now features a bass guitar track, lacking in the original recording.
Jackson remastered all the other tracks from the analoge originals.
“Rhamadan” is a 20-minute instrumental by Barrett, which has never-before been released. It’ll be available as a download to those who purchase the CD or the entire album online.
Track list is as follows:
Arnold Layne
See Emily Play
Apples and Oranges (Stereo)
Matilda Mother (2010 Mix)
Chapter 24
Bike
Terrapin
Love You
Dark Globe
Here I Go (2010 Mix)
Octopus (2010 Mix)
She Took a Long Cool Look (2010 Mix)
If It’s In You
Baby Lemonade
Dominoes (2010 Mix)
Gigolo Aunt
Effervescing Elephant
Bob Dylan Blues
The CD will be sold in a Digipak sleeve by long-time Floyd designer Storm Thorgerson along with a 20-page booklet containing lyrics.
“An Introduction to Syd Barrett” will be released Oct. 4.
A rare live recording of Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett went on the auction block last month, but failed to sell.
“I am currently awaiting to see if a pending post-sale offer is to be completed,” Bonhams auction house consultant Stephen Maycock told Floydian Slip.
Maycock says bidders failed to reach a reserve price for the recording, which expected to fetch upwards of $5,000, on the day of the auction June 23. He declined to name the reserve price.
The reel of ½-inch tape contains a concert performed Jan. 27, 1972, at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge, England. The show included Barrett in one of his last live performances sitting-in for three numbers with the Last Minute Put Together Boogie Band: “Number Nine,” “Gotta Be a Reason,” “Let’Roll,” and “Sweet Little Angel.”
The recording also includes performances by Hawkwind and Pink Fairies.
Omnibus Press will publish “Pink Floyd: The Music & the Mystery” by Andy Mabbett. The book will be available in the U.K. next week, June 21. The U.S. publication date is Sept. 1.
The publisher describes the book as “the ultimate illustrated discography of Pink Floyd, covering everything from their first single to their most recent album ‘The Division Bell’. Also included are separate sections on the work on Roger Waters and Syd Barrett.”
Mabbett published and edited the Floyd fanzine “The Amazing Pudding” until 1993. He’s contributed to a couple of other Floydian titles for Omnibus Press and has written about Floyd for Q magazine.
A new feature-length documentary film about long-time Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson is nearly complete, and the filmmaker is looking for funding.
New York filmmaker Roddy Bogawa is the man behind “Taken by Storm,” a 90-minute film looking at the prolific career of Thorgerson, who helped create nearly every Floyd album cover, as well as countless iconic covers from some of the world’s biggest bands.
Floyd’s David Gilmour and Nick Mason are two of many musicians who appear in the film, along with photographers, illustrators and assistants who’ve helped execute the work from the days of Thorgerson’s early studio Hipgnosis to his new company, StormStudios.
Thorgerson has granted Bogawa access to his personal archives so the film promises a bevy of never-before-seen workparts.
Bogawa has established a page at Kickstarter to raise money to complete his project. Pledge amounts as low as $25 can get you some swag in return. If you have larger amounts to spend, some of the rewards are quite impressive. (Ever fancied yourself an Associate Producer? With $3,500, consider it done.)
The Flaming Lips’s cover of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” is now available on CD.
The Oklahoma prog-psych rockers first made the album available via iTunes Dec. 22, and as a limited edition LP in April. They also performed it live in Oklahoma City on New Year’s Eve.
Including guests on the recording, the album is credited to “The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches.”
Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has made available a new recording of the protest song “We Shall Overcome.”
Posted June 3 to YouTube, the video is a call for the end of the blockade of Gaza.
Waters is seen in the video singing and playing acoustic guitar. Lead guitar is played by G.E. Smith, with drums by Thor Jonsson, neither of whom are seen in the video.
Waters explains his motivation by referencing the freedom march to Gaza this winter. “The would be Freedom Marchers wanted to peacefully draw attention to the predicament of the Palestinian population of Gaza. The Egyptian government, (funded to the tune of $2.1 billion a year, by us, the U.S. tax payers), would not allow the marchers to approach Gaza,” he writes.
“I was moved, in the circumstances, to record a new version of ‘We Shall Overcome.’ It seems appropriate.”
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has indicated a Pink Floyd anthology and catalog reissue might be in the works.
The Orb’s “Metallic Spheres” album, to be released this fall, will feature guitar work by Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour.
This fall, EMI/Harvest will release “An Introduction to Syd Barrett,” a compilation of remixed and remastered songs Pink Floyd’s co-founder recorded with the band and during his brief solo career.
A rare live recording of Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett went on the auction block last month, but failed to sell.
Omnibus Press will publish “Pink Floyd: The Music & the Mystery” by Andy Mabbett. The book will be available in the U.K. next week, June 21. The U.S. publication date is Sept. 1.
A new feature-length documentary film about long-time Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson is nearly complete, and the filmmaker is looking for funding.
he Flaming Lips’s cover of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” is now available on CD.
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