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Sunday, 10 August 2014 |
Esoteric Antenna has just announced the upcoming release of Signal To Noise, the new studio album by twice Grammy nominated Pink Floyd engineer Andy Jackson. The album, which is being released as both a single CD edition and a two-disc digipack deluxe limited edition with a 5.1 surround mix, appears on November 3rd, 2014.
Esoteric describe 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 Andy's sound engineering background, the title refers to many of the lyrical themes of the album. Andy explains: "The album reflects on the sorting of what is important in life from the humdrum of everyday existence, and is in itself an analogy for the process of the creation of the album".
Andy's relationship with Pink Floyd began on the film soundtrack of The Wall, a relationship that continues to this day, resulting in two Grammy nominations for his work and Mix magazine's award for best live sound engineer for the Division Bell tour. He has also worked on solo albums from Roger Waters and David Gilmour, and is also engineer and a co-producer of the yet-to-be-released Pink Floyd album, The Endless River.
We hope to have more information, including ordering links, soon, as we're already aware of a fair degree of interest amongst the Floyd community for this release.
UPDATE:
We've been lucky enough to have a sneak preview of the whole album, and
we're thoroughly enjoying it. It's a very absorbing listen, and
unsurprisingly - bearing in mind Andy's pedigree (and normal employers) -
it feels a very Floydian album, both in terms of production and music,
in places even bringing to mind Richard Wright's Broken China amongst
other things. "The Boy In The Forest", below, should give a flavour of
what to expect. You can order it through the following direct links, all
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Written by Matt
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Sunday, 10 August 2014 |
For the many of us who really miss the incredible tour of The Wall Live, which ran from 2010 to 2013 across many parts of the world, we've got a little treat for you today that should take you back down memory lane.
The nice people at Tait Towers, who were behind the mechanics of the tour, working with the stage design geniuses Fisher Park, have released a fascinating timelapse video showing the process of an indoor Wall set-up, from beginning to end. As you'll see, as part of the set-up and checks done prior to each show, the wall itself was completely built up and pulled down, to ensure all would be fine for the performance itself.
The video doesn't have sound, so feel free to whistle your favourite Wall tune whilst watching it!
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Written by Matt
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Sunday, 10 August 2014 |
As many of you are already aware, Roger Waters and long term collaborator, Pink Floyd's sound engineer, James Guthrie, have revisited Waters last solo album, Amused To Death. In pursuit of reimagining the music with brand new stereo and 5.1 mixes, James Guthrie captures Roger's original sonic intentions in 21st century definition for this important new release.
The music questions the omnipresent media culture which we now live in,
which works to seduce us into apathetic oblivion in front of our flat
screens, whilst the horrors of the world rumble on. This extraordinary
album challenges our relationship to mass media and conjures an image of
today's population amusing themselves to death.
The new mixes, along with additional never before released content and
brand new graphics, will be included in the 2014 reissue release from
Columbia/Legacy Recordings and Acoustic Sounds.
James Guthrie previewed the newly mastered 5.1 version in April, 2014, at Pink Floyd: Sound, Sight,
and Structure, the weekend long Pink Floyd interdisciplinary conference
hosted at Princeton University which Brain Damage reported on in detail. The finished mix was "hot off the press" to use a publishing analogy, but whilst Acoustic Sounds were hoping for a September 2014 release, this now seems to have slipped again.
As yet, no firm date for the release is forthcoming. Regular Brain
Damage readers will be aware that the date has moved a few times and as
we get confirmed dates we will let you know, but at this stage all we can hope for is that it will be later this year. It could be that they have experienced issues with the pressings, or want to avoid a clash with the new Pink Floyd album, The Endless River, which is out in October. Also, the artwork shown here is from the original release, and not representative of the new
edition.
At present, pre-orders are being taken at Amazon.com and Amazon Canada, both of which offer a pre-order price guarantee. As other outlets offer this, we will update you accordingly.
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Written by Matt
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Tuesday, 05 August 2014 |
Back in May we told you that Roger Waters, along with other guest artists such as Nick Cave, Pat Leonard, and Steve Earle, had contributed lyrics to Marianne Faithfull's forthcoming album, Give My Love To London.
The album is released next month, September 2014, and will coincide with a year-long world tour which begins around the same time.
As we noted before, this is not Marianne's first cover of a Roger Waters-penned song. Her 1999 album Vagabond Ways included the track Incarceration of a Flower Child, which was written by Waters in 1968, and never recorded by Pink Floyd. The lyrics seem to relate to Syd Barrett, but Waters has never confirmed this.
Marianne's YouTube channel has just unveiled Sparrows Will Sing, which features Roger's lyrics. You can hear it below, and share your views on this collaboration over at our Facebook page.
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Written by Matt
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Friday, 01 August 2014 |
In the UK's Telegraph newspaper recently, writer Lee Hall, creator of Billy Elliot and collaborator with Roger Waters on the stage version of The Wall, has provided a small update on progress. As the article reveals, despite it all seemingly going quiet on the project, work is still very much ongoing.
The Telegraph notes that 'in the autumn, Hall will start work-shopping a stage version of The Wall with [Waters] and director Simon McBurney.' Hall says, "The album is conceived in a very theatrical way and it has this brilliant theatrical metaphor for the war. It's also a great story about post war Britain, what it was to be part of that young generation and to be an artist and become unbelievably successful at it."
As yet, there are no dates or locations for when The Wall will hit the stage, although when the project was being discussed previously New York's Broadway was stated as the place it will open.
Our thanks to Phil Beckett for spotting this, and letting us know. More information on this intriguing project as and when we have it.
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