Pink Floyd –or what remains of the band- agreed to share “single tracks” on the internet. These are rarities that have not been released on social media until now, and which will be added to a playlist called “daily evolution”, as revealed by Página12.
The virtual action began with a version of "Bike," a theme from the Syd Barrett era, and an incomplete version of "Us & Them," recorded live at The Empire Pool at Wembley in 1974.
The evolution of the playlist will continue this Friday 29 with an alternative take on “Have a Cigar”, the key theme of Wish You Were Here, and will continue every Friday, with pieces that will be gradually uploaded to Spotify and YouTube.
Roger Waters, genius and figure of the group until 1985, will have the documentary Us + Them for digital sale from Tuesday June 2 and, for rent, from Tuesday 16 of the same month. Two times, then. Two faces of the same dark side, whose lunar validity has spent fifty-five years alternating phases. Returning over and over again. Facing them.
Syd, Roger, Richard, Nick and David - An Evolving Pink Floyd Playlists –this is the name of the classic Pink Floyd material-, the rarities confirmed to go viral during the month of June are three: an enveloping and dreamlike one of “Any Color You Like ”, Which the band played with Rick Wright and his burning synths during the Dark Side of the Moon presentation at Wembley (Friday 5th); a demo of “Run Like Hell” that, due to its excessive length, was left out of the original The Wall and was recovered in the box set The Wall Immersion (available from the 12th); and another of "Money", prior to the edition of Dark side ..., whose pirate circulation - at that time, of course - quite obfuscated the members of the group.
This record, for instance, is one of many that went unnoticed during 1972, the year of the explosive London Rainbow concerts, the Obscured by Clouds recording at Herouville Castle, and Waters' compulsive isolation in marathon sessions. recording that determined one of the best musical works of the 19th century. On June 27, meanwhile, avid Floydian music lovers will be able to access a free version of “Money”, originated that same year, and published in the box set The Dark Side Of The Moon, Immersion, on September 2011, XNUMX. This material, along with its counterpart The Wall, is considered a luxury edition that includes memorabilia, lithographs, rarities, videos and - in addition to the original - six albums with unpublished bonus tracks, the digital remastering of which belongs to James Guthrie.
The digital version of the Us + Them Tour was accidentally announced at a time when the sparks between Waters and David Gilmour were reborn: the guitarist prevented his former partner from uploading songs on the Pink Floyd site and the bassist told him to shut his mouth on Instagram . It is a documentary that Waters co-directed with the filmmaker Sean Evans - the same one with whom he toured The Wall in 2014 - and shows in detail the concert that Floyd's soul gave in Amsterdam, Holland. It was within the framework of the one hundred and fifty-six concert tour, which began on May 21, 2017 at the Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford (United States) and concluded on December 9, 2018, at the Arena Monterrey in Mexico. The film lasts one hundred and 135 minutes and reflects, in a key of sound and visual apotheosis, the mix between classic themes from the classic albums of his old band with certain pearls of Is This the Life We Really Want? , Waters' last solo work to date.
The immense tournée, which also passed through the Unico Stadium of La Plata on November 6, 10 and 14, 2018, provided Waters with the possibility of lowering the necessary line on the way in which the economic powers are plunging humanity into a excruciating existential angst. The legends like "Trump, you are an asshole" or "we do not want another wall" inserted on the giant screen were as unforgettable as the tremendous version of "Dogs" or the song against Mauricio Macri that was heard in the Unico in full neoliberal government. As a bonus, the audiovisual material includes a short film. This is Fleeting Glimpse, a kind of mini documentary that shows internal situations, behind the scenes, between Waters, his touring troupe and his followers.
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