Parlophone will release Pink Floyd‘s “The Endless River” on Nov. 10.
Details about the new album — artwork, songlists and more — are available on a new website devoted to the project.
More from us once we’ve had a chance to digest the news …
“Roger Waters: The Wall” film to premiere in September
Posted August 20, 2014 by Floydian Slip
“Roger Waters: The Wall,” a concert documentary focused on the Pink Floyd co-founder’s recent world tour, will premiere next month at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
“This immersive experience of Waters’s ‘The Wall Live’ tour, shot in three cities across two continents, is a rib-rattling, sonically stupendous piece of filmmaking,” according to TIFF director and CEO Piers Handling.
Clocking in at 2 hours 13 minutes, the film premieres Saturday, Sept. 6, with additional shows Sept. 7 and 14.
Waters shares directing credit with Sean Evans of production company Deadskinboy, who helped stage the tour. Longtime Waters manager Mark Fenwick is the film’s executive producer.
Waters played 219 shows on his “Wall” tour between 2010 and 2013, grossing $458 million.
No news yet on plans for a commercial release.
Stephen Hawking biopic coming this fall
Posted August 14, 2014 by Floydian Slip
Focus Features will release “The Theory of Everything,” a biopic about British physicist Stephen Hawking, on Nov. 7.
Pink Floyd fans will recall Hawking’s synthesized voice is heard on “Keep Talking” from the band’s “The Division Bell” (1994).
The film is based on the book “Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen” by Jane Hawking, the scientist’s first wife. It focuses on his early life before and after his diagnosis of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease).
It stars Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking, and Felicity Jones as his wife.
New Andy Jackson album coming this fall
Posted August 11, 2014 by Floydian Slip
Esoteric Antenna will release “Signal to Noise,” a new album by long-time Pink Floyd recording engineer Andy Jackson, on Nov. 3.
The 7-track album will be available as a single CD and as a limited edition 2-disc digipack with 5.1 Surround Sound mix.
The label describes the album as “a fine, modern, progressive work, which draws on Andy Jackson’s exemplary work as an engineer and producer.”
Besides being an allusion to Jackson’s sound engineering background, the title refers to many of the lyrical themes of the album. “The album reflects on the sorting of what is important in life from the humdrum of everyday existence,” he explains, “and is in itself an analogy for the process of the creation of the album.”
The songlist will be:
- The Boy in the Forest
- One More Push
- Invisible Colours
- Spray Paint
- Herman at the Fountain
- It All Came Crashing Down
- Brownian Motion
Jackson’s tenure with Floyd and its members includes work on “The Wall” film, “The Final Cut,” “A Momentary Lapse of Reason,” “The Division Bell,” “Pulse,” Roger Waters‘ “The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking,” David Gilmour‘s “About Face,” “On An Island,” and “Live in Gdansk,” as well as the upcoming Floyd album “The Endless River.”
His work’s earned him two Grammy nominations and Mix magazine’s award for best live sound engineer for the “Pulse” tour.
Esoteric Antenna is a division of Cherry Red Records of London.
“The Endless River” songlist?
Posted August 2, 2014 by Floydian Slip
At the risk of spreading rumor, this image has been circulating the Web, supposedly showing the songlist of Pink Floyd’s upcoming album “The Endless River.”
We can’t confirm its original source, nor its authenticity.
Details: Lost Dream Academy cuts featuring David Gilmour
Posted August 1, 2014 by Floydian Slip
Our copy of the new Dream Academy compilation arrived today. Its liner notes reveal some more details about David Gilmour‘s participation in the previously-unreleased tracks included on the album.
Band frontman Nick Laird-Clowes writes of “Living in a War”: “Another song taken from the third album sessions. It had started life with a simple acoustic/string synthesizer arrangement, but had developed in the studio under the influence of the technology and sounds of the time, including David Gilmour’s multi-octave guitar sound (circa 1989). It was then thought to be ‘too eighties’ and subsequently put on the shelf but emerges now as a pure sound snapshot of its time.”
For the other track featuring Gilmour, “The Chosen Few,” Laird-Clowes writes: “Recorded in sessions for the last album. One afternoon in a break from his ‘A Momentary Lapse of Reason’ Tour, David came down to the Strongroom where we were recording with Anthony Moore and added some electric and slide guitar to the track. With Pete Thomas playing the drums, Guy Pratt and Jon Carin augmenting our sound with the Hammond organ, there was very much a ‘live band’ feel to this recording.”
Careful observers will recognize some of those names as those of other Floyd contributors. (Laird-Clowes co-wrote a couple tracks on Floyd’s “The Division Bell” [1994].)
“Living in a War” and “The Chosen Few” are pretty much as one might expect, and as described above. Unfortunately, for Floyd fans, Gilmour’s contributions rarely rise to the top of the mix in either track.
David Gilmour to appear on Dream Academy outtakes
Posted July 15, 2014 by Floydian Slip
Real Gone Music will release a 2-CD retrospective of band The Dream Academy, including two previously-unreleased tracks featuring David Gilmour on electric and slide guitar.
“The Morning Lasted All Day” will include “Living in a War” and “The Chosen Few,” both featuring Gilmour, who helped produce many of the songs.
The ’80s group, best known for “Life in a Northern Town” and “The Love Parade,” was fronted by Nick Laird-Clowes, who went on to write for Floyd’s “The Division Bell” (“Poles Apart” and “Take It Back”).
The album drops July 29.
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Correction: “Endless River” won’t include David Crosby, Graham Nash
Posted July 12, 2014 by Floydian Slip
Ultimate Classic Rock has retracted its story from a few days ago, stating David Crosby and Graham Nash will appear on the upcoming Pink Floyd album.
The source cites the Brain Damage website saying the duo’s work will, instead, appear on an upcoming David Gilmour solo album.
Two upcoming Floyd-related projects. Even better. 😉
“Endless River” to feature David Crosby, Graham Nash
Posted July 10, 2014 by Floydian Slip
Note: This story has been corrected. Read the correction.
Ultimate Classic Rock reports “The Endless River,” the new Pink Floyd album coming this fall, will include vocals by David Crosby and Graham Nash.
“We went down to sing on this particular song that he wrote about friends that had died,” Nash told VH-1 Radio Network’s Dave Basner. “It’s a beautiful song, too — beautiful.”
Nash was the first to leak news of a new Floyd project, when he mentioned during a TV appearance last November he was heading over to Gilmour’s studio to lay down some tracks. The project was presumed to be a Gilmour solo album, but apparently was “The Endless River.”
Crosby and Nash sang background on the title track of Gilmour’s “On an Island” (2006).
Read more about the new Floyd album, dropping in October:
Official announcement: New Pink Floyd album
Reports: New Pink Floyd album coming this fall
Official announcement: New Pink Floyd album
Posted July 7, 2014 by Floydian Slip
We received official word from Pink Floyd public relations firm LD Communications of London this afternoon, confirming a new album from the group to be released this fall.
Here is the announcement, in its entirety:
Pink Floyd can confirm that they are releasing a new album “The Endless River” in October 2014. It is an album of mainly ambient and instrumental music based on the 1993/4 Division Bell sessions which feature David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright. The album is produced by David Gilmour with Phil Manzanera, Youth and recording engineer Andy Jackson. Work is still in progress, but more details to come at the end of the Summer.
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