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Showing posts with label Pink Floyd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pink Floyd. Show all posts

Friday, November 19, 2021

Various Artists "Animals Reimagined – A Tribute To Pink Floyd"

Country: Multinational
Genre(s): Psychedelic, Space Rock, Hard Rock
LabelCleopatra Records - CLO2573CD
Format: CD, digital
Release date: November 19, 2021
Tracklist
1. Pigs On A Wing 1
2. Dogs
3. Pigs (Three Different Ones) 
4. Sheep
5. Pigs On A Wing 2

Line-up
Nick van Eede (Cutting Crew), Martin Barre (Jethro Tull) (1)
Graham Bonnet (Rainbow), Vinnie Moore (UFO), Kasim Sulton (Utopia), Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater), Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson) (2)
James LaBrie (Dream Theater), Al Di Meola, Joe Bouchard (Blue Öyster Cult), Patrick Moraz (The Moody Blues), Billy Cobham (Mahavishnu Orchestra) (3)
Arthur Brown, Rick Wakeman (Yes), Jan Akkerman (Focus), David J. (Bauhaus), Carmine Appice (Cactus/Vanilla Fudge) (4)
Jon Davison (Yes), Albert Lee, Billy Sherwood (Yes) (5)

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Bandcamp
Dogs

Friday, May 28, 2021

Various Artists "A Tribute to Pink Floyd - Still Wish You Were Here"

Country: Multinational
Genre(s): Psychedelic, Space Rock
Label: Cleopatra Records - CLO2309CD
Format: CD, digital, vinyl 
Release date: May 28, 2020
Tracklist
1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (13:16) 
2. Welcome To The Machine (6:57) 
3. Have A Cigar (5:07) 
4. Wish You Were Here (5:33) 
5. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6-9) (12:38) 

Total Time 43:31

Line-up
Geoff Tate, Steve Hackett, Billy Sheehan, Mel Collins, Geoff Downes, Ian Paice (1)
Todd Rundgren, Rick Wakeman, Tony Levin (2) 
James LaBrie, Steve Stevens, Patrick Moraz, Rat Scabies, Jah Wobble (3)
Rik Emmett, Joe Satriani, Edgar Froese, David Ellefson, Carmine Appice (4)
Rod Argent, Steve Hillage, Ian Paice, Bootsy Collins (5)

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Friday, June 2, 2017

Roger Waters "Is This the Life We Really Want?"


Country: UK
Genre(s): Art Rock
Label: Jule Pond Productions/Columbia Records
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: June 2, 2017
Tracklist
1. When We Were Young (1:38)
2. Déjà Vu (4:27)
3. The Last Refugee (4:12)
4. Picture That (6:47)
5. Broken Bones (4:57)
6. Is This The Life We Really Want? (5:55)
7. Bird In A Gale (5:31)
8. The Most Beautiful Girl (6:09)
9. Smell The Roses (5:15)
10. Wait For Her (4:56)
11. Oceans Apart (1:07)
12. Part Of Me Died (3:12)

Total time 54:06

Line-up
Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) – vocals, acoustic guitar, bass guitar
   With
Nigel Godrich – keyboards, guitar, sound collages, arrangements
Gus Seyffert – guitar, keyboards, bass guitar
Jonathon Wilson – guitar, keyboards
Roger Manning – keyboards
Lee Padroni – keyboards
Joey Waronker – drums
Jessica Wolfe – vocals
Holly Proctor – vocals
Lucius – vocals

Media/Samples 
Smell the Roses

The Last Refugee

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Roger Waters "Is This the Life We Really Want?"


Country: UK
Genre(s): Art Rock
Label: Jule Pond Productions/Columbia Records
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: June 2, 2017
Tracklist
1. When We Were Young (1:38)
2. Déjà Vu (4:27)
3. The Last Refugee (4:12)
4. Picture That (6:47)
5. Broken Bones (4:57)
6. Is This The Life We Really Want? (5:55)
7. Bird In A Gale (5:31)
8. The Most Beautiful Girl (6:09)
9. Smell The Roses (5:15)
10. Wait For Her (4:56)
11. Oceans Apart (1:07)
12. Part Of Me Died (3:12)

Total time 54:06

Line-up
Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) – vocals, acoustic guitar, bass guitar
   With
Nigel Godrich – keyboards, guitar, sound collages, arrangements
Gus Seyffert – guitar, keyboards, bass guitar
Jonathon Wilson – guitar, keyboards
Roger Manning – keyboards
Lee Padroni – keyboards
Joey Waronker – drums
Jessica Wolfe – vocals
Holly Proctor – vocals
Lucius – vocals

Media/Samples 
Smell the Roses

The Last Refugee

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Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Crippled Black Phoenix / Se Delan "Oh'Ech-oes"


Country: UK/Sweden
Genre(s)Psychedelic
LabelClearview Records
FormatCD, vinyl
Release date: July 2015
Tracklist
  1. Echoes Pt. 1
  2. Echoes Pt. 2
  3. Childhood's End 
Line-up
Justin Greaves (CBP & SD)
Mark Furnevall (CBP)
Daniel Änghede (CBP)
Daisy (CBP)
Belinda Kordic  (SD & occasional CBP)
Dave Norman (SD live, past CBP session)
   with
Dave Greaves (occasional CBP & SD session)
Andy Solomon

Description/Reviews
Members of Crippled Black Phoenex and Se Delan covering selected works from Pink Floyd.
Media/Samples 
Childhood's End (single version)

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Monday, November 10, 2014

Pink Floyd "The Endless River"


Country: UK
Sub Genre: Instrumental Progressive Rock, Ambient
FormatCD, vinyl, digital
Release dateNovember 10, 2014
Tracklist
  1. Things Left Unsaid
  2. It’s What We Do
  3. Ebb and Flow
  4. Sum
  5. Skins
  6. Unsung
  7. Anisina
  8. The Lost Art of Conversation
  9. On Noodle Street
  10. Night Light
  11. Allons-y (1)
  12. Autumn ’68
  13. Allons-y (2)
  14. Talkin’ Hawkin’
  15. Calling
  16. Eyes to Pearls
  17. Surfacing
  18. Louder Than Words
Line-up
David Gilmour: guitars, vocals
Nick Mason: drums
Rick Wright: keyboards
   With
Guy Pratt: bass guitar
Durga McBroom: backing vocals
Louise Clare Marshall: backing vocals
Sarah Brown: backing vocals

Description/Reviews
The Endless River has as its starting point the music that came from the 1993 Division Bell sessions, when David Gilmour, Rick Wright and Nick Mason played freely together at Britannia Row and Astoria studios.  This was the first time they had done so since the ‘Wish You Were Here’ sessions in the seventies.  Those sessions resulted in The Division Bell, the band’s last studio album.
 In 2013 David Gilmour and Nick Mason revisited the music from those sessions and decided that the tracks should be made available as part of the Pink Floyd repertoire.  It would be the last time the three of them would be heard together.  The band have spent the last year recording and upgrading the music,using the advantages of modern studio technology to create The Endless River.
 The Endless River is a tribute to Rick Wright, whose keyboards are at the heart of the Pink Floyd sound. It is a mainly instrumental album with one song, ‘Louder Than Words’, (with new lyrics by Polly Samson), arranged across four sides and produced by David Gilmour, Phil Manzanera, Youth and Andy Jackson.
Media/Samples
Louder Than Words
Sampler

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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Various Artists "Echoes of Secrets - A Pink Floyd Tribute"


Country: Multinational
Sub GenreProgressive Rock
LabelMellow Records
Formatdigital
Release dateAugust 26, 2014
Tracklist/Line-up
  1. Nanaue - Summer 68 07:38
  2. Roz VIitalis - Remember a day 07:44
  3. Karda Estra - It would be so nice 04:25
  4. Acoustic Floyd - Welcome to the machine 06:15
  5. Lodovico Ellena - Interstellar overdrive 06:19
  6. Quarkspace - Paint box 03:43
  7. Fabio Zuffanti - Chapter 24 05:15
  8. Pavoni / Botti - Wish you were here 03:23
  9. Luca Scherani - See Emily play 04:18
  10. The Pravedniks' Band - POW R TOC H 07:31
  11. Riccardo Lolli - Shine on you crazy diamond 04:47
  12. Astral Weeks - Lucifer Sam 04:27
  13. Lila Madrigali - If 05:16
  14. TNR - The final cut 04:52
  15. Giuseppe Scaravilli - Cymbaline 01:34
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Friday, May 31, 2013

Various Artists "The Many Faces Of Pink Floyd: A Journey Through The Inner World Of Pink Floyd"


Country: Multinational
Sub GenreSpace Rock, Psychedelic
LabelMusic Brokers
Release dateMay, 2013
Tracklist/Line-up
CD1: The Dark Side of the Moon Revisited
01. Speak To Me / Breathe - Adrian Belew (King Crimson) & Alan White (Yes)
02. On The Run - Larry Fast (Peter Gabriel) & Alan White (Yes)
03. Time - Robbie Krieger (The Doors) & Garry Green (Gentle Giant)
04. The Great Gig In The Sky - Rick Wakeman (Yes) & Steve Howe (Yes)
05. Money - Edgar Winter, Bill Bruford (King Crimson) & Tony Levin (King Crimson)
06. Us And Them - Dweezuk Zappa & John Wetton (King Crimson)
07. Any Colour You Like - Robben Ford, Steve Porcaro (Toto) & Aynsley Dunbar (Frank Zappa)
08. Brain Damage - Geoff Downes (Asia) & Robbie Krieger (The Doors)
09. Eclipse - Peter Banks (Yes), Tony Kaye (Yes) & John Wetton (Asia)

CD2:The Wall and Other Classics
01. In The Flesh? - Adrian Belew (King Crimson) & Keith Emerson (Elp)
02. The Thin Ice - Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull)
03. Another Brick In The Wall (Part 1) - Steve Morse (Deep Purple)
04. Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) - Fee Waybill (The Tubes)
05. Mother - John Wetton (King Crimson/asia)
06. Goodbye Blue Sky - Steve Howe (Yes/asia)
07. Young Lust - Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple) & Elliot Easton (The Cars)
08. Hey You - Tommy Shaw (Styx) & Steve Lukater (Toto)
09. Comfortably Numb - Chris Squire (Yes) & Alan White (Yes/john Lennon)
10. Run Like Hell - Dweezil Zappa & Keith Emerson (Elp)
11. Shine On You, Crazy Diamond - Steve Lukater (Toto)
12. Welcome To The Machine - Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater)
13. Set The Controls To The Heart Of The Sun - Psychic Tv
14. Careful With That Axe, Eugene - Nik Turner (Hawkwind)

CD3: Roots, Versions And Relatives
01. Good Question - Snowy White
02. Celestine - Banco De Gaia Feat Dick Parry
03. Love For Living - Clare Torry
04. See Emily Play - The Chemistry Set
05. Birds Of Paradise - Snowy White
06. Arnold Layne - Ss-20
07. The Music Attracts Me - Clare Torry
08. Who Was It? - Hurricane Smith
09. Oh Babe, What Would You Say? - Hurricane Smith
10. Year Of The Cat - Al Stewart
11. Scream Thy Last Scream - The Green Telescope
12. The Boll Weevil - Pink Anderson
13. Runaway Man Blues - Floyd Council
14. Pink Floyd Interview - Norman "Hurricane" Smith Talks About His Recording Sessions With Pink Floyd

Description/Reviews
The Many Faces of Pink Floyd is a wonderful and truly stunning album: A labor of love which is rarely seen on today’s market. The first disc of the triple album contains The Dark Side Of The Moon covered in full by luminaries of the global rock scene (members of King Crimson, Yes, The Doors, Toto and Asia, among others). On the second disc, the ten fundamental songs of The Wall, two of Wish You Were Here and two classics from the psychedelic era by musicians such as Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, Ian Anderson or those British freaks British Psychic TV, among many others. The third disc, meanwhile, is even more spectacular as it presents material from all the great musicians who participated in the group's records: saxophonist Dick Parry (Money, Us And Them), singer Clare Torry (The Great Gig in The Sky), guitarist Snowy White (the tours of Animals and Roger Waters solo), producer Norman Smith (The Piper At The Gates of Dawn) and keyboardist Peter Wood (the tour of The Wall) and there are even songs by the obscure bluesmen who inspired the leader Syd Barrett to christen the band: Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.

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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Mobtown Moon "Mobtown Moon"


Country: USA
Sub GenreJazz, Fusion, Progressive Rock
Release dateMay 7, 2013
Tracklist
  1. The City Speaks 00:58
  2. Breathe (chant version) 01:11
  3. Breathe 04:34
  4. On the Run 03:42
  5. Time 05:11
  6. The Great Gig in the Sky 05:55
  7. Money 04:23
  8. Dream-Counterfeit 02:35
  9. Us and Them 07:39
  10. Any Colour You Like 05:13
  11. Brain Damage 04:56
  12. Eclipse 02:51
Line-up
Sandy Asirvatham - vocals, piano, keyboards
ellen cherry - vocals, background vocals, drum programming & bells, sound assembly, tuning radio, Moog, cello
Brian Simms - vocals, background vocals, accordion, piano, organ
Vincent Stringer - vocals, background vocals, Breathe reprise vocal
Ben Frock - trumpet
Jeff Reed - electric bass
Frank Russo - drums
Scott Smith - guitar
Andrew Grimm - banjo
Dave Hadley - pedal steel
Scott Smith - drum programming & bells
Warren Boes - guitar
Matthew Everhart - electric bass
Christian Stengle - drums
Nicholas Currie - violin
Kate Zahradnik - viola
Tim Anderson - cello
Bryan Young - bassoon
Cris Jacobs - vocal, guitar
Jake Leckie - acoustic bass
Mike Gambone - drums
David “Native Son” Ross - spoken word
Femi The DriFish - spoken word
Jen Smith - cello
Russell Kirk - alto saxophone
Todd Marcus - bass clarinet
Eric Kennedy - drums
Lea Gilmore - vocal
Craig Alston - tenor and baritone saxophones
Patrick Klink - background vocals
Katie Graybeal - background vocals
Brian Gundersdorf - background vocals
OrchKids Choir directed by Dion Cunningham (Keyon Brewington, Nyshae Cheatham, Jameria
Crippens, Kayla Dickerson, Monique Graves, Lawrence Howell III, John McFadden, Joseph Wilkerson,
Dasani Young) - vocals
John Thomakos - drums

Description/Reviews
In honor of the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s worldwide hit record, Dark Side of the Moon, Mobtown Moon has brought together many of Baltimore’s most creative musicians, from across many styles and genres of music, to record and perform a unique, compelling, and unapologetically beautiful interpretation of this classic work.
This is no mere cover project recreating the original album note-for-note. That’s been done many times before. Instead, Mobtown Moon features fresh grooves and eclectic sounds derived from jazz, classical music, choral music, bluegrass, hip-hop and of course, rock. These immortal rock-and-roll hits will be heard anew.
“Mobtown Moon” is the vision of co-producers Sandy Asirvatham & ellen cherry, who managed to take a piece of classic Americana, and strip it down to the basic melodies and rebuild it in a completely original fashion.
Like the original, the album works as a through-composed art piece, where one song leads directly into the next, but that is pretty much where the comparisons end. “Mobtown Moon,” managed to rework these classic songs in such a manner that you forget you are listening to re-imagined versions and enjoy them on their own merit. Aside from the basic melody, everything else is altered: instrumentation, chord substitutions/structure, arrangement, tempo, etc.
The overall vibe of the album is somewhere between jazz-fusion and classic progressive rock, and manages the perfect balance between live performance and digital loops, and sound effects. The arrangements in general are very intricate, and cover a lot of musical ground from jazz standards, to country, progressive rock, chant, blues, roots, and on and on. However, through the performance and production of “Mobtown Moon,” the entire CD has an easy feel about it, with an even flow. Every transition was made at just the right time, with just the right amount of arrangement. Complex 7/8 time signatures and syncopated bass lines are performed with an air of intrigue as opposed to a demonstration of “chops.” The entire album functions as an ensemble, with the feel of a symphony performing multiple movements.

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