{"id":5586,"date":"2014-08-01T13:53:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T17:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=5586"},"modified":"2014-08-01T13:53:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T17:53:51","slug":"details-lost-dream-academy-cuts-featuring-david-gilmour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2014\/08\/details-lost-dream-academy-cuts-featuring-david-gilmour\/","title":{"rendered":"Details: Lost Dream Academy cuts featuring David Gilmour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our copy of the new <strong>Dream Academy<\/strong> compilation arrived today. Its liner notes reveal some more details about <strong>David Gilmour<\/strong>&#8216;s participation in the previously-unreleased tracks included on the album.<\/p>\n<p>Band frontman <strong>Nick Laird-Clowes<\/strong> writes of &#8220;Living in a War&#8221;: &#8220;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&#8217;s multi-octave guitar sound (circa 1989). It was then thought to be &#8216;too eighties&#8217; and subsequently put on the shelf but emerges now as a pure sound snapshot of its time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the other track featuring Gilmour, &#8220;The Chosen Few,&#8221; Laird-Clowes writes: &#8220;Recorded in sessions for the last album. One afternoon in a break from his &#8216;A Momentary Lapse of Reason&#8217; Tour, David came down to the Strongroom where we were recording with <strong>Anthony Moore<\/strong> and added some electric and slide guitar to the track. With <strong>Pete Thomas<\/strong> playing the drums, <strong>Guy Pratt<\/strong> and <strong>Jon Carin<\/strong> augmenting our sound with the Hammond organ, there was very much a &#8216;live band&#8217; feel to this recording.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Careful observers will recognize some of those names as those of other Floyd contributors. (Laird-Clowes co-wrote a couple tracks on Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;The Division Bell&#8221; [1994].)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Living in a War&#8221; and &#8220;The Chosen Few&#8221; are pretty much as one might expect, and as described above. Unfortunately, for Floyd fans, Gilmour&#8217;s contributions rarely rise to the top of the mix in either track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our copy of the new Dream Academy compilation arrived today. Its liner notes reveal some more details about David Gilmour&#8216;s participation in the previously-unreleased tracks included on the album. Band frontman Nick Laird-Clowes writes of &#8220;Living in a War&#8221;: &#8220;Another song taken from the third album sessions. It had started life with a simple acoustic\/string [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david-gilmour","category-merchandise","category-personnel","category-recordings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5587,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586\/revisions\/5587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}