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Roger Waters box set coming to U.K.

Posted March 19, 2011 by Floydian Slip

Sony Music will release in the U.K. a box set of Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters‘s solo material.

“The Album Collection” will be available for £31.99 on April 4. It’ll be available the following day in the U.S. as an import for $46.43.

The 8-CD set includes: “The Pros & Cons of Hitch Hiking” (1984), “Radio K.A.O.S.” (1987), “Amused to Death” (1992), “In the Flesh” (2000) as a 2-CD/1-DVD set, and Waters’s 2-CD opera “Ca Ira” (2005).

This is supposedly a limited edition, which will be available only during the balance of Waters’s tour of “The Wall.”

Buy “The Album Collection” online now. Your purchase helps support “Floydian Slip.”

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Foo Fighters re-release Floyd cover

Posted March 14, 2011 by Floydian Slip

Foo Fighters will include a cover of Pink Floyd’s “Have a Cigar” in its compilation “Medium Rare.”

The all-covers album will be issued on vinyl on April 16, “Record Store Day.”

It’s unclear whether this version of “Cigar” will be the one from the 2000 “Mission Impossible II” collection that features Queen’s Brian May; or the Foos-only recording that appeared on the band’s “Learn to Fly” EP the previous year.

Record Store Day is a celebration of the unique culture surrounding more than 700 independently owned record stores in the US, and hundreds of similar stores internationally. Learn more at the Record Store Day Web site.

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New Ron Geesin album out

Posted March 11, 2011 by Floydian Slip

Avant garde recording artist Ron Geesin has released his latest album, “RonCycle 1: The Journey of a Melody.”

Geesin has worked on the suite, composed of 16 movements, since 1986. “The reason that it has all taken so long is that, as it grew, it frightened me so much that I had to walk away for long periods,” Geesin explains.

He credits Mark Ayres, known for his work on the BBC’s “Dr. Who,” with helping complete the project by transferring parts of the project from analog tape to hard drive. “The whole digi-structure was becoming overwhelmingly complicated,” Geesin explains.

Geesin is best known to Pink Floyd fans for his work on Floyd’s “Atom Heart Mother” (1970) and his collaboration with Floyd’s Roger Waters on “Music from ‘The Body’” (1970).

He was a guest on Floydian Slip in November 2010. You can hear that interview and read a transcript online.

“RonCycle 1: The Journey of a Melody” is available on CD and 180-gram LP, which includes a bonus CD. Buy it online at tonefloat.

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“The Wall Live in Berlin” to be re-released

Posted March 9, 2011 by Floydian Slip

wlib20 In case you haven’t had your fill of talk about live performances of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall,” this month will see a re-release of Roger Waters‘ Berlin, Germany, performance from 1990.

“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.

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David Gilmour vinyl to be “Deal of the Day”

Posted March 1, 2011 by Floydian Slip

gdansk_lp Here’s a more affordable way to pick up David Gilmour’s “Live in Gdansk” (2008) on vinyl: The 5-LP boxset will be the featured buy at online retailer Pop Market this Friday, March 4.

The set will be more than 50% off its suggested retail price of $134.98 with free shipping in the U.S. That’s at least as low as $67.49.

This limited edition features the full concert including the bonus track “Wot’s… Uh The Deal?,” plus two of the private recording sessions known as the “Barn Jams.”

Complete concert on 4 LPs
Extra LP with unreleased tracks from the 2006 tour
Webpass to enable digital download of all tracks
Double-sided poster and 20-page booklet

Pop Market is Sony Music’s members-only shopping club for music fans, which offers limited-time sales on selected titles each day. Membership is free.

Visit Pop Market now.

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Gilmour “Deal of the Day” at Pop Market

Posted December 23, 2010 by Floydian Slip

gdansk David Gilmour‘s 2008 2-CD/2-DVD set “Live in Gdansk” is the featured buy at online retailer Pop Market.

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

Now in beta, Pop Market is Sony Music‘s members-only shopping club for music fans, which offers limited-time sales on selected titles each day. Membership is free.

Visit Pop Market now.

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Contest: Syd Barrett CD winners

Posted November 15, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Congratulations to the winners of “An Introduction to Syd Barrett,” courtesy Capitol Records:

Gerald Couture, Burlington, VT
Andrew Gozinsky, Old Bethpage, NY
Jeff Nemets, Laingsburg, MI
Michael Jones, Canton, MI
Phillip Lee Sanders, Greenfield, TN

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Contest: Win “An Introduction to Syd Barrett”

Posted November 8, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Register to win a copy of “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, being released in the U.S. tomorrow, includes as a bonus track “Rhamadan,” a 20-minute instrumental by Barrett, which has never-before been released. It’s available as a download to those who purchase the CD or the entire album online. Or win it from Floydian Slip.

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Contest: Orb/Gilmour winners announced

Posted October 25, 2010 by Floydian Slip

orbcover Congratulations to winners of “Metallic Spheres” by The Orb, featuring David Gilmour:

Quintin Allen
Las Vegas, NV
Zulfia Malyshenko
Kiev, Ukraine
Nuno Henriques
Salvaterra de Magos, Portugal

Prizes courtesy of Sony Music/Columbia Records and The Orb.

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Contest: Win ‘Metallic Spheres’ by The Orb featuring David Gilmour

Posted October 18, 2010 by Floydian Slip

orbcover Heads-up about our new contest: Register to win a copy of “Metallic Spheres,” the new Orb album featuring Floyd guitarist David Gilmour.

We have several copies to give away courtesy Sony Music/Columbia Records and The Orb.

Deadline to register: 6 pm EDT Monday, Oct. 25.

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