Roger Waters Teases ‘Money’ Rework Ahead of ‘The Dark Side of the Moon Redux’ Release

Roger Waters teases a rework of the Pink Floyd traditional ‘Cash’ forward of ‘The Darkish Facet of the Moon Redux’ launch on October 6.

Roger Waters has confirmed October 6, 2023, as the discharge date for The Darkish Facet of the Moon Redux, an formidable reinterpretation of the acclaimed album, fifty years because the unique Pink Floyd recording. The album’s lead single, Waters’ reinterpretation of “Cash,” is out immediately with an accompanying lyric video.

Recorded with Pink Floyd when Waters was 29, The Darkish Facet of the Moon has lengthy been hailed as a unprecedented “multidimensional” meditation on the human expertise, the passage of time, and the abyss. Its opening line, “The recollections of a person in his outdated age — are the deeds of a person in his prime,” foretells Waters transcending the fifty years because the album’s launch to reinterpret his unique creation with a brand new perspective.

Waters’ gravelly vocal efficiency provides contemporary and profound layers to his traditional lyrics with a pearl of tongue-in-cheek knowledge. The manufacturing strips again Pink Floyd’s psychedelic orchestration into one thing uncooked, experimentally creative, and richly textured.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUVmeYgo1Iw

Along with reimagining every of the album’s unique ten tracks, The Darkish Facet of the Moon Redux LP will characteristic a bonus 13-minute unique composition impressed by the re-recording as a closing monitor.

“The unique Darkish Facet of the Moon feels in some methods just like the lament of an elder being on the human situation. However Dave (Gilmour), Rick (Wright), Nick (Mason), and I had been so younger after we made it, and once you take a look at the world round us, clearly, the message hasn’t caught. That’s why I began to contemplate what the knowledge of an 80-year-old might convey to a reimagined model,” mentioned Waters.

“After I first talked about the concept of re-recording The Darkish Facet of the Moon to Gus (Seyffert) and Sean (Evans), all of us thought I used to be mad, however the extra we thought-about it, the extra we thought, ‘isn’t that the entire level?’

“I’m immensely pleased with what we have now created, a piece that may sit proudly alongside the unique, hand-in-hand throughout a half-century of time.”

The Darkish Facet of the Moon Redux Monitor Itemizing

CD/Digital

1. Converse to Me
2. Breathe
3. On the Run
4. Time
5. Nice Gig within the Sky
6. Cash
7. Us and Them
8. Any Color You Like
9. Mind Injury
10. Eclipse

Vinyl

Facet One

• Converse to Me
• Breathe
• On the Run
• Time

Facet Two

• Nice Gig within the Sky
• Cash

Facet Three

• Us and Them
• Any Color You Like
• Mind Injury
• Eclipse

Facet 4