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Roger Waters - The Wall (2CD) (2015)













Year : 2015
Style : Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Art Rock
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 239 mb

Bio:

George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer. In 1965, he co-founded the progressive rock band Pink Floyd with drummer Nick Mason, keyboardist Richard Wright and guitarist, singer, and songwriter Syd Barrett. Waters initially served as the group's bassist, but following the departure of Barrett in 1968, he also became their lyricist, conceptual leader and co-lead vocalist.Pink Floyd subsequently achieved international success with the concept albums The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall. By the early 1980s, they had become one of the most critically acclaimed and best-selling acts in the history of popular music; as of 2013, they have sold more than 250 million albums worldwide, including 75 million units sold in the United States. Amid creative differences within the group, Waters left in 1985 and began a legal dispute with the remaining members over their intended use of the band's name and material. They settled out of court in 1987, and nearly eighteen years passed before he performed with them again.Waters' solo career has included three studio albums: The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, Radio K.A.O.S. and Amused to Death. In 1990, he staged one of the largest and most extravagant rock concerts in history, The Wall – Live in Berlin, with an official attendance of 200,000. As a member of Pink Floyd, he was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. That same year he released Ça Ira, an opera in three acts translated from Étienne and Nadine Roda-Gils' libretto about the French Revolution. Later that year, he reunited with Pink Floyd bandmates Mason, Wright and David Gilmour for the Live 8 global awareness event; it was the group's first appearance with Waters since 1981. He has toured extensively as a solo act since 1999 and played The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety for his world tour of 2006–2008. In 2010, he began The Wall Live and in 2011 Gilmour and Mason appeared with him during a performance of the double-album in London. As of 2013, the tour is the highest-grossing of all time by a solo artist.Waters has been married four times; first in 1969 to his childhood sweetheart Judy Trim; they divorced in 1975. The following year he married Lady Carolyne Christie; the marriage produced a son, Harry Waters, a musician who has played keyboards with his father's touring band since 2006, and a daughter, India Waters, who has worked as a model. Christie and Waters divorced in 1992, and in 1993, he married Priscilla Phillips. They had one son together, Jack Fletcher, before getting divorced in 2001. In 2012, Waters married actress and filmmaker Laurie Durning.

Album:

Now that Roger Waters has released his new concert film of The Wall, filmed on the former Pink Floyd singer-songwriter's recent world tour, he is putting out an accompanying soundtrack album. Between 2010 and 2013, the singer performed the 1979 double-album, home to "Comfortably Numb" and "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)," live more than 200 times. Like the film, the soundtrack, titled Roger Waters The Wall and due out on November 20th, contains recordings from around the world and will be available digitally and as either a two-CD or three-LP set.Waters performed the album for approximately 4.5 million people during the course of the tour with help from an 11-person backing group. Singer Robbie Wyckoff handled the vocal parts that Floyd's David Gilmour sang on the original record, while the guitars were handled by Dave Kilminster, former SNL bandleader G.E. Smith and Snowy White, the last of whom performed on Floyd's original The Wall tour. Waters' son Harry performed Hammond organ and piano on the tour.Frequent Radiohead collaborator Nigel Godrich, who provided music production and mixing for the film, produced the album.The soundtrack will run longer than the original Wall album, which spanned only two LPs, as it includes two songs removed from the original release — "Last Few Bricks" and "What Shall We Do Now?" — which Floyd had added back in for live performances. This version of The Wall also includes "The Ballad of Jean Charles de Menezes," which Waters incorporated into his performances of the album beginning in 2011 in tribute to a 27-year-old Brazilian man that London police killed thinking, wrongly, that he was a terrorist.The soundtrack marks the third time The Wall has been released as a live album. In 1990, Waters released The Wall: Live in Berlin, which he'd recorded and filmed less than a year after the Berlin Wall fell with a star-studded cast, including Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Marianne Faithfull, the Band, Sinéad O'Connor, Cyndi Lauper and Tim Curry, among others. A decade later, Pink Floyd released Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-81, which contains recordings of Waters' final tour as a member of the band.Waters told Rolling Stone that the meaning behind The Wall hadn't changed for him over the years. "The context changes, but the story remains the same," he said. "If people see this movie, what I hope is that that they may look at one another and go, 'You know what? We are a community, and we are many. There are a lot of us.'"

Line Up:

Vocals, Guitar and Bass: Roger Waters
Guitars: Dave Kilminster
Guitars: Snowy White
Guitars: G.E. Smith
Keyboards: Jon Carin
Hammond & Piano: Harry Waters
Drums: Graham Broad
Vocals: Robbie Wyckoff
Background Vocals: Jon Joyce
Background Vocals: Pat Lennon
Background Vocals: Mark Lennon
Background Vocals: Kipp Lennon

Tracklist:

CD1:

01. In the Flesh?
02. The Thin Ice
03. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1
04. The Happiest Days of Our Lives
05. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2
06. The Ballad of Jean Charles de Menezes
07. Mother
08. Goodbye Blue Sky
09. Empty Spaces
10. What Shall We Do Now?
11. Young Lust
12. One of My Turns
13. Don't Leave Me Now
14. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 3
15. Last Few Bricks
16. Goodbye Cruel World

CD2:

01. Hey You
02. Is There Anybody Out There?
03. Nobody Home
04. Vera
05. Bring the Boys Back Home
06. Comfortably Numb
07. The Show Must Go On
08. In the Flesh
09. Run Like Hell
10. Waiting for the Worms
11. Stop
12. The Trial
13. Outside the Wall




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Roger Waters - The Dark Side Of The Moon Redux (2023)













Year : 2023
Style : Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Art Rock
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 113 mb

Bio:

George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer. In 1965, he co-founded the progressive rock band Pink Floyd with drummer Nick Mason, keyboardist Richard Wright and guitarist, singer, and songwriter Syd Barrett. Waters initially served as the group's bassist, but following the departure of Barrett in 1968, he also became their lyricist, conceptual leader and co-lead vocalist.Pink Floyd subsequently achieved international success with the concept albums The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall. By the early 1980s, they had become one of the most critically acclaimed and best-selling acts in the history of popular music; as of 2013, they have sold more than 250 million albums worldwide, including 75 million units sold in the United States. Amid creative differences within the group, Waters left in 1985 and began a legal dispute with the remaining members over their intended use of the band's name and material. They settled out of court in 1987, and nearly eighteen years passed before he performed with them again.Waters' solo career has included three studio albums: The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, Radio K.A.O.S. and Amused to Death. In 1990, he staged one of the largest and most extravagant rock concerts in history, The Wall – Live in Berlin, with an official attendance of 200,000. As a member of Pink Floyd, he was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. That same year he released Ça Ira, an opera in three acts translated from Étienne and Nadine Roda-Gils' libretto about the French Revolution. Later that year, he reunited with Pink Floyd bandmates Mason, Wright and David Gilmour for the Live 8 global awareness event; it was the group's first appearance with Waters since 1981. He has toured extensively as a solo act since 1999 and played The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety for his world tour of 2006–2008. In 2010, he began The Wall Live and in 2011 Gilmour and Mason appeared with him during a performance of the double-album in London. As of 2013, the tour is the highest-grossing of all time by a solo artist.Waters has been married four times; first in 1969 to his childhood sweetheart Judy Trim; they divorced in 1975. The following year he married Lady Carolyne Christie; the marriage produced a son, Harry Waters, a musician who has played keyboards with his father's touring band since 2006, and a daughter, India Waters, who has worked as a model. Christie and Waters divorced in 1992, and in 1993, he married Priscilla Phillips. They had one son together, Jack Fletcher, before getting divorced in 2001. In 2012, Waters married actress and filmmaker Laurie Durning.

Album:

Next October 6th ROGER WATERS will release ”The Dark Side of the Moon Redux”, his own vision, re-recording of the classic The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) Pink Floyd album, released for the album’s 50th anniversary.Remasters of classic albums are common, but most of the time, aside from the mixing, the music remains the same. But ”Dark Side of the Moon Redux” by Roger Waters is not that.‘Redux’ is a reinterpretation of one of the greatest albums of all time. The original is actually the fourth-best-selling album in history. But it takes a big personality to remake a classic album. Roger Waters is a good candidate, but can the former member of Pink Floyd back it up?The album is definitive proof that while Waters may have written the lyrics to the classic album, the musical composition lacks the grandiose effect it had during his Pink Floyd days. Still, for all its struggles sonically, there are still enough fresh ideas to make it worthwhile.Let’s get one thing out of the way: This is definitely an art rock album. It begins much like the original, which is with a bass drum mimicking a heartbeat. And the songs flow into each other with smooth transitions. But it’s not something to which you can rock out. Waters approached it with the maturity of time.That means the energy is more contemplative. The soulful wailings originally on “Great Gig in the Sky” have given way to a low, double-tracked hum by Waters.It’s also definitely a “headphones” album. The production is much more stripped down, atmospheric than the original. This is especially apparent on tracks like “Time,” Waters’ reinterpretation of a hit he wrote 50 years ago. Blaring, acid-wailing guitars have given way to simple rock organs, acoustic guitars, string sections and Waters’ aged, gravelly voice.He narrates a storyline throughout the album in a sort of free-verse poetry that lends itself well to his voice—like a raspy Ian Dury—but it fits with the project. It’s easy to have existential dread as a young man. It’s another thing to actually be up against the threat of death at 80. It’s the same song, with new insight injected via the new sonics.Some elements of the album might be too new and foreign to be a part of the original vision from Dark Side of the Moon. This was a scary album, but scary in an oblique, existential way. “Brain Damage” was scary because it conveyed a portrait of a person eerily detached from reality that you hoped didn’t resemble you.On Redux, the same song comes off as sinister. It begins with a discomforting laugh and Waters proclaiming, “He’s gone mad.” Approximately where the build of the song would let loose into a large-scale choir and overlapping instrumentation, there’s a violin flourish that’s dissonant and meant to inspire anxiety.Yet certain points of Redux shine. “Money,” once a message akin to “money will corrupt you and ruin your life,” is re-contextualized as, “Even though you can’t take it with you, the narrator can’t see that and it has ruined his life.” “How much of it are you gonna give away? None,” Waters proclais, in character, at the end.“Us and Them” feels like a standalone song. It stays decently authentic to the original while taking adventurous leaps with its mixing and instrumentation, adding a string section, acoustic guitar and interesting otherworldly reversed sounds that recall the mystic and psychedelic roots of the original. When it gets to the chorus, the lyrics and instrumentation are enough to give you chills.Overall, ”Dark Side of the Moon Redux” works really well as a curiosity. It’s an interesting companion piece to the original. It doesn’t stand on its own and Roger Waters surely doesn’t create any definitive versions. But it’s hard to deny that Waters still created something interesting – or at least, different from the original.It’s worth a listen — just re-listen to Dark Side of the Moon first.

Line Up:

Roger Waters – vocals, bass on “Any Colour You Like”, VCS3
Gus Seyffert – bass, guitar, percussion, keys, synth, backing vocals
Joey Waronker – drums, percussion
Jonathan Wilson – guitars, synth, organ
Johnny Shepherd – organ, piano
Via Mardot – theremin
Azniv Korkejian – vocals
Gabe Noel – string arrangements, strings, sarangi
Jon Carin – keyboards, lap steel, synth, organ
Robert Walter – piano on “The Great Gig in the Sky

Tracklist:

01. Speak To Me
02. Breathe
03. On The Run
04. Time
05. The Great Gig In The Sky
06. Money
07. Us And Them
08. Any Colour You Like
09. Brain Damage
10. Eclipse




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