The label will release remastered/repackaged versions of all 14 Floyd studio albums, along with deluxe — and deluxe, deluxe! — versions including tons of previously unreleased audio, video and more.

The label’s Web site for the initiative, “Why Pink Floyd …?,” promises, “a comprehensive release schedule, to be launched on September 26, 2011, encompassing CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs, SACD, an array of digital formats, viral marketing, iPhone Apps and a brand-new single-album ‘Best Of’ collection.”

A source close to the band told “Floydian Slip” in September 2010 remastering work on previously unreleased, and, in some cases, presumed to have been lost, recordings was being performed for eventual release, “subject to interminable contract negotiations.”

The project’s “Discovery” series will include individual remasters of all 14 Floyd studio albums:

1. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)
2. A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)
3. More (1969)
4. Ummagumma (1969)
5. Atom Heart Mother (1970)
6. Meddle (1971)
7. Obscured by Clouds (1972)
8. The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
9. Wish You Were Here (1975)
10. Animals (1977)
11. The Wall (1979)
12. The Final Cut (1983)
13. A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)
14. The Division Bell (1994)

… as well as “The Discovery Collection,” a box set containing all of them.

All have been remastered by James Guthrie, and come in newly-designed Digipaks with 12-page booklets designed by Storm Thorgerson.

“Experience” editions — coming for:

1. The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
2. Wish You Were Here (1975)
3. The Wall (1979)

… are expanded versions in Digipak bonus disc format. Included are original remastered albums, discs of additional material and expanded CD booklets.

EMI will also release “Immersion” editions of:

1. The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
2. Wish You Were Here (1975)
3. The Wall (1979)

Packaged in square boxes, the sets contain remastered, previously unreleased and audio-visual material, plus additional content such as reproduced memorabilia, new graphics, art prints, collectors’ items, booklets and more.

Also included in this project is “A Foot in the Door,” a new 14-track sampler of previously released material, also remastered by Guthrie; and vinyl editions of much of the back catalog.

Rarities

The most exciting material, without a doubt, are the previously unreleased tracks contained in the “Experience” and “Immersion” sets.

The 6-CD “Dark Side” immersion set includes concert film screens in Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound; early, live versions of “Dark Side” songs; demos of “Us and Them” and “Money”; documentary videos; “The Hard Way,” a cut from the band’s aborted “Household Objects” project, when it flirted with recording an entire album substituting everyday objects for instruments; and more.

The 5-CD “Wish You Were Here” immersion set includes live material from November 1974′s Wembley shows; “Wine Glasses” from “Household Objects”; an alternate take of “Have a Cigar”; and a version of the title track featuring Stephane Grappelli; and much more.

“The Wall” immersion set includes seven CDs, which contain a live version of the album; documentaries; interviews; and more.

“The Wall Live in Berlin” will be re-issued with bonus material as 2-DVD and 2-CD sets on March 29 in the U.S.

Some of the extras promised are:

• An extended cut of the “Behind The Wall” documentary, expanding it from 30 to 70 minutes.
• The original, unedited “warts and all” broadcast of the event. It includes an introduction by Leonard Cheshire, the then-72-year-old British war hero-turned-activist who founded the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief, the beneficiary of Waters’ concert. (Cheshire died the summer following the concert.)
• Footage shot by Floyd animator Ian Emes of Rupert Everett (Pink), Marianne Faithful and Ute Lemper for stage projections, edited here as theatrical promotional clips.
• Original, full-screen Gerald Scarfe animations
• New liner notes by Record Collector editor Daryl Easlea

The concert took place at Berlin’s Potzdamer Platz on July 21, 1990, and was originally released by Mercury Records in September ’90.

It received its first re-release in 2003, with new packaging, artwork and liner notes.

• Richard Csonka, Miskolc, Hungary
• Carlos Sardinha, Lisboa, Encarnacao-Mafra, Portugal
• Todd Twiner, Auburn, GA

Prizes are courtesy of the British Film Institute (BFI). Price for the 2-disc set is £19.99. Purchase it directly from BFI or buy it at Amazon UK.

The two-disc package includes a Region 0 (U.K.) DVD and a Blu-Ray disc, which is playable in any region.

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Price for the 2-disc set is £19.99. Purchase it directly from BFI or buy it at Amazon UK.

Barbet Schroeder

The British Film Institute (BFI) will release the 2-disc set Feb. 14. It’ll be the first time the film is available on Blu-Ray disc, a region-fee format playable in any country; and the first time the DVD is available for Region 0, which is compatible with players in the U.K.

Pink Floyd fans know the film’s soundtrack as the band’s 1972 album “Obscured by Clouds.”

The new release contains additional content, including:

• Original and digitally-restored optional endings (Blu-ray only)
• Original un-restored ending (5:00, DVD only)
• Three ethnographic documentary shorts directed by Schroeder: “Le cochon aux patates douces” (1971, 8:00) about the Mapuga tribe’s feast of pigs with sweet potatoes; “Maquillages” (1971, 12:00), which examines the types of ceremonial make-up worn by the Mapuga tribe; “Sing Sing” (1971, 5:00) on the ceremony of “Sing Sing” practiced by Papua New Guinea’s tribes
• Theatrical trailers for Schroeder’s “The Valley”; “More” (1969), which also features music by Floyd; and “Maîtresse” (1974)
• An illustrated 26-page booklet with rare on-set photographs; an essay, “Childhood’s End: Pink Floyd’s Music for The Valley (Obscured by Clouds)” by Rob Young; and an essay and new director interview by Emilie Bickerton, author of the recently-published book “A Short History of Cahiers du Cinéma”

Price for the 2-disc set is £19.99. Purchase it directly from BFI or buy it at Amazon UK.

The set is $25.99 (postage-free in the U.S.) until 12 noon tomorrow, Dec. 24. The product normally retails for $49.95.

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Sony/Columbia will release “Live at GdaÅ„sk,” a double live album and concert DVD by David Gilmour, on Sept. 22 in the U.K., the following day in the U.S.

The concert, performed in front of an audience of 50,000 at the GdaÅ„sk shipyards in Poland, was the only show of the Summer ’06 tour that included an orchestra. The 40-piece Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zbigniew Preisner, joined Gilmour on stage. Preisner also handled orchestral arrangements on Gilmour’s “On an Island” album.

“Live at GdaÅ„sk” will come in a number of different packages: 2-, 3-, 4- and 5-disc versions, containing a variety of CDs and DCDs; as well as a 5-LP box, which comes with a pass to download the entire thing in MP3 format.

Learn more at the official David Gilmour site.

Order your copy of “Live at GdaÅ„sk” online now.

The video for “Hello (I Love You),” the new song by former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters, will be included as an extra on the DVD release of “The Last Mimzy.”

The song was co-written by Waters and the film’s composer, Howard Shore. The video shows Waters recording the song in-studio.

The DVD is scheduled for release in the United States July 10. Order your copy of “The Last Mimzy” DVD now or order “The Last Mimzy” soundtrack on CD.

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