Roger Waters Releases ‘The Lockdown Sessions EP’

Roger Waters releases ‘The Lockdown Classes EP’ — however there’s nonetheless no phrase on Pink Floyd’s rumored $500 million catalog acquisition.

Sony Music has introduced the discharge of Roger Waters’ The Lockdown Classes, recorded and filmed on the artist’s residence throughout the COVID lockdown between 2020 and 2021. Additionally included with the discharge is Waters’ “Comfortably Numb 2022,” which was recorded throughout his This Is Not A Drill North American tour.

The Lockdown Classes options 5 seminal tracks from Water throughout his time with Pink Floyd and his solo profession. “Mom” and “Vera” from Pink Floyd’s The Wall, “Two Suns within the Sundown” and “The Gunner’s Dream” from Waters’ ultimate Pink Floyd album, The Last Minimize, and “The Bravery of Being Out of Vary” from his acclaimed solo album, Amused to Loss of life. Waters’ new model of the Pink Floyd traditional “Comfortably Numb” options as the ultimate monitor on the EP. 

Roger Waters and Gus Seyffert produced the album. Alongside Waters on vocals, guitar, and piano, Gus Seyffert options on the album on bass, cello, and extra vocals. Joey Waronker, Dave Kilminster, Jonathan Wilson, Jon Carin, Lucius (Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig), Bo Koster, and Ian Ritchie additionally function. The movies had been directed and produced by Sean Evans, with pictures by Kate Izor.

“Our Us and Them Tour lasted three years,” recollects Waters. “At each gig, we did an encore after the primary present closed with ‘Comfortably Numb’ — the encore was at all times ‘Mom’ — I can’t bear in mind why I made a decision to begin doing different songs.”

“Sooner or later after the tip of the tour, I began considering, ‘It might make an fascinating album, all these encores,’” he continues, explaining that due to the COVID-related lockdowns in March 2020, his “Encores” undertaking was scrapped till he determined to reimagine it as The Lockdown Classes. 

Roger Waters’ This Is Not A Drill tour will embark on its European leg in 2023, with 40 reveals throughout 14 European nations, starting in Lisbon on March 17 on the Altice Area.