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Written by Matt
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Thursday, 06 February 2003 |
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Our Italian friend, Christian Diemoz, has just brought out his new book, "Le canzoni dei Pink Floyd" ("Pink Floyd's songs") through Rome publishers Editori Riuniti. Over to Chris:
"The book is part of the "Pensieri & Parole" ("Thoughts and Words") series. These volumes try to analyze the history of an artist, or of a band, by taking as a starting point what is much more evident in their production: the lyrics of the songs. Therefore, since Pink Floyd became great due also to the use of effects and of spoken words, on some chapters (espcially The Wall and The Final Cut), I tried to transcribe those parts, and to offer their translation. That stuff, to me, is capital to fully understand Pink Floyd's message. The Wall chapter, then, also relates the songs on the album to the movie and to the live act, giving a wide range of info on what is probably the biggest concept ever in popular music. The books has sixteen chapters. Fifteen are dedicated to the studio albums (being a work on lyrics, it's just on studio versions we focus) and one to the 7" with songs that never ended up on LP (referring mostly to the early years). In each chapter you find: a synthetical introduction, with data on the album (producer, place where it was recorded, artwork for the sleeve, etc...), an introduction providing biographical info on the band's history during the making of the album and then, for each song, a critical analysis of the lyrics, plus the original version and the translated Italian one."
We've just received our copy of the book, and an interesting read it looks too. We're dusting off our Italian-English dictionary and a review will be here shortly. Meanwhile, it can be ordered direct from the publishers or your local bookshop using the ISBN of 88-359-5313-8. It costs 18 Euros.
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Written by Matt
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Thursday, 06 February 2003 |
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The European release of Dub Side Of The Moon, the reggae tribute to the album of the moment, is now due for release at the end of March/start of April. The US edition is still due to be released on February 18th.
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Written by Matt
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Monday, 03 February 2003 |
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The new cover design of the 30th Anniversary SACD edition of Dark Side Of The Moon has seemingly appeared and is flying around the internet today (we were emailed it from two different sources).
Whilst we are still awaiting official confirmation of everything from our friends at EMI, we thought you might like to see this. It seems the new design has at least some input from Storm Thorgerson - which may be included in the book mentioned below. From a conversation with him in September, we know that George Hardie was also involved in some capacity.
The limited edition vinyl version does not include this new "stained glass window" artwork, it seems. Again, until there is official confirmation of the artwork and the contents/format of the two editions, all this could change.
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Written by Matt
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Thursday, 30 January 2003 |
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We had an email from Mark Fenwick, Roger Waters' manager, yesterday afternoon updating us on some things of interest:
- Live At Pompeii (Directors Cut) DVD release has been moved back to April, due to some technical glitches that need to be ironed out.
- Roger's new album, to be released on Columbia, is now anticipated to be released in Summer 2004 (next year), and
- Roger's Ca Ira, to be released on Sony Classical, is anticipated to follow the above, in Autumn 2004/Spring 2005.
Our thanks to Mark for the update.
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Written by Matt
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Thursday, 30 January 2003 |
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A DVD of the 1998 Pretty Things concert at Abbey Road, featuring David Gilmour throughout, is being released on March 24th. There is no region coding for this release, meaning it should be playable on all DVD players, although please bear in mind that it will be in PAL format. Our thanks to Charles at Floydstuff.com for letting us know about this forthcoming release, which they are, of course, stocking.
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