Roger Waters has released another song from his upcoming “The Dark Side of the Moon Redux” album. He has rerecorded all of Pink Floyd’s classic 1973 album without any of his former bandmates. Waters released the first song, “Money,” last month.
Waters says ‘when we recorded the stripped down songs for the “Lockdown Sessions, the 50th anniversary” of the release of “The Dark Side Of The Moon” was looming on the horizon. It occurred to to me that “The Dark Side Of The Moon” could well be a suitable candidate for a similar re-working, partly as a tribute to the original work, but also to re-address the political and emotional message of the whole album. I discussed it with Gus and Sean, and when we’d stopped giggling and shouting ‘You must be ****ing mad’ at one another we decided to take it on. It’s turned out really great and I’m excited for everyone to hear it. It’s not a replacement for the original which, obviously, is irreplaceable. But it is a way for the seventy nine year old man to look back across the intervening fifty years into the eyes of the twenty nine year old and say, to quote a poem of mine about my Father, “We did our best, we kept his trust, our Dad would have been proud of us”.
“I’m immensely proud of what we have created, a work that can sit proudly alongside the original, hand-in-hand across a half-century of time,” Waters said in a press release announcing the album. “The original “Dark Side of the Moon” feels in some ways like the lament of an elder being on the human condition. But Dave [Gilmour], Rick [Wright], Nick [Mason] and I were so young when we made it, and when you look at the world around us, clearly the message hasn’t stuck. That’s why I started to consider what the wisdom of an 80-year-old could bring to a re-imagined version.”
Drummer Mason was given a preview of the album and highly praised it. “He actually sent me a copy of what he was working on,” Mason said earlier this year. “And I [wrote] to him and said, ‘Annoyingly, it’s absolutely brilliant!’ It was and is. It’s not anything that would be a spoiler for the original at all, it’s an interesting add-on to the thing.”
“The Dark Side of the Moon Redux” includes all 10 songs from the original album plus a new 13-minute original composition. It will be released on October 6th.
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