The Dark Side Of The Moon Redux out today October 6th: Stream

By editorial board on October 6, 2023

Roger Waters has rerecorded The Dark Side Of The Moon. Because there was so much wrong with the original

At the start of this Redux’s version of Brain Damage, Roger Waters asks: “Why don’t we re-record [the album]?” before answering his own question: “He’s gone mad.”

As it turns out, the actual record – timed for the 50th anniversary of The Dark Side’s release is fine: neither a massive gutting of the original nor a slavish copy. It opens with Waters intoning the lyrics of Free Four from Pink Floyd’s Obscured By Clouds, and takes it from there. Time now sounds like a boulder rolled up a hill, weary and aged. Brain Damage and Us And Them are half-crooned and very effective. (Louderrsound)

 

Roger Waters previewed his re-recorded version of The Dark Side of the Moon to a select group in New York City this on Sept 15.

At the Power Station at BerkleeNYC, a recording studio in Manhattan, Waters' new album was played in its entirety, following a song-by-song explanatory video, plus brief remarks by the former Pink Floyd bassist.

 

Redux does not include any of Waters' former bandmates, and instead features the following musicians in addition to Seyffert: Joey Waronker, Jonathan Wilson, Johnny Shepherd, Via Mardot, Azniv Korkejian, Gabe Noel, Jon Carin and Robert Walter.

 

 

Speaking of which, Waters said: “We'll be doing it live at the London Palladium in October… we can't wait; we hope to perform it live on other occasions in the future.” The show will be designed by Sean Evans, Waters' longtime creative director. Who, so far, has released two Redux songs: “Money” and “Time”.

Fifty years after making the original with Pink Floyd, Roger Waters announced that he is to premiere his new recording, The Dark Side of the Moon Redux, live at The London Palladium, on October 8, 2023.

The Pink Floyd bassist will run through his re-recording of the seminal record live at the Palladium on October 8. The production will be designed by Waters’ longtime creative director Sean Evans.

Joining Waters on stage will be Gus Seyffert: Bass, Joey Waronker: Drums, Jonathan Wilson: Guitars, Johnny Shepherd: Organ, Via Mardot: Theremin, Azniv Korkejian: Vocals, Gabe Noel: Strings, Jon Carin: Keyboards and Robert Walter: Piano.

The show will be designed by Sean Evans, Waters long time Creative Director.

Waters said “We’re going to do it live at the London Palladium, in October…we look forward to that…hopefully performing it live on other occasions in the future”.

But the new version of 'Money' leaves fans baffled - video

 

"I wrote The Dark Side of the Moon," Waters told the Telegraph's Tristram Fane Saunders back in February. "Let’s get rid of all this ‘we’ crap! Of course we were a band, there were four of us, we all contributed – but it’s my project and I wrote it. So... blah!”


 


Drummer Nick has revealed that he knew about Roger’s 50th anniversary project and was even sent a copy to listen to.

Rather than be angry that he is seemingly turning his back on their masterpiece, Nick thinks Roger’s re-imaginings are “brilliant” and is happy he is doing it.

Speaking at a playback of 'The Dark Side of the Moon' in Dolby Atmos Immersive Audio at the Odeon Luxe in London, Nick said: “I heard the rumour that Roger was working on his own version of it. There was this suggestion that this was going to be a spoiler and Roger was going to go head-to-head with the original version and so on.

“He actually sent me a copy of what he was working on and I write 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."

Nick doesn't think music should be untouchable and thinks it is great when songs are reinterpreted or changed because it means they are still evolving and new things are being found in them.

Llisten below to a small preview of his "new" 'Dark Side of the Moon'

We are completing the final mix , writes the musician, playing a fragment of 'Us and Them'. “He doesn't want to replace the original.

 

"When we recorded the stripped-down versions of the Lockdown Sessions, the 50th anniversary of the release of Dark Side of The Moon was looming on the horizon," Waters writes in the text accompanying the excerpt from Us and Them.

«It occurred to me that Dark Side of the Moon could be a good candidate for a reworking of that type, to pay homage to the original, but also to spread again the political and emotional message contained in the album. I discussed it with Gus and Sean, and when we stopped snickering and yelling at each other 'you must be crazy' we accepted the challenge."

 

 

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