Pre-orders for Is This The Life We Really Want? begin on Friday, April 21. Waters will embark next month on his lengthy Us + Them North American Tour. Waters’ follow-up to 1992’s Amused To Death also features Jonathan Wilson on guitar and keyboards, Gus Seyffert on bass, guitar and keyboards, Joey Waronker on drums, Roger Manning and Lee Pardini on keyboards and Lucius vocalists Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig. Find the dates for that below.On June 2, Columbia Records will issue a new Roger Waters solo album entitled Is This The Life We Really Want? The co-founding Pink Floyd bassist has shared new details regarding the LP, including its tracklist and performance credits.Īccording to a press release, the Nigel Godrich-produced record contains 12 newly penned original tracks featuring “unflinching commentary on the modern world and uncertain times,” that serve, “as a natural successor to classic Pink Floyd albums such as Animals and The Wall.” Waters earned vocal, bass and acoustic guitar credits, while Godrich also contributed arrangement, sound collages, keyboards and guitar. He’ll debut songs from the album during his newly announced Us + Them tour next summer. Well, I’ve always said anything I’ve wanted anyway. It also means you can say anything you want. I so feel for young musicians, knowing that all of your work will be stolen, and nobody wants to pay you. But there are no constraints on records now because nobody pays you anything for them. How long was The Dark Side of the Moon?” I said 38 minutes. He said to me, “People always want to do these long records. The name, minus 'Sound,' stuck, with bassist Roger Waters, organist Richard Wright, and drummer Nick Mason hitting the English pop charts two years later with a single, 'Arnold Layne.' (Not to be confused with another English group and 'Penny Lane. But it’s a separate issue – it overlaps what we do. So how much of the original radio play actually made it onto the album? Says Waters: It’s also the question of how do we take these moments of love – if we are granted any in our lives – and allow that love to shine on the rest of existence, on others. It’s pondering not just why we are killing the children. So the record is really about love – which is what all of my records have been about, in fact. I’ve also been falling in love, deeply in love. I played this to Nigel, and he goes, “Oh, I like that little bit” – about two minutes long – “and that bit.” And so we’ve been working. So I wrote this whole thing – part magic carpet ride, part political rant, part anguish. Over there.” The grandfather promises they will go on a quest to find the answer to this question: Why are they killing all the children? It is a fundamentally important question. They haven’t killed any children since the Troubles. She is having a nightmare, and the nightmare is someone is killing all the children. He goes in to look after the kid, and it’s his granddaughter. You eventually discover that he is babysitting. The thing starts off with a two-minute monologue of discontent : “Our children and grandchildren, ceaselessly bent over their computers, blah, blah, blah, I fucking hate this, I fucking hate that.” That was the beginning of the whole thing, this disillusionment. It was the story of an old Irishman who is babysitting. Roger Waters: Us + Them is a 2019 British concert film by English musician Roger Waters, founding member of Pink Floyd. I had written a long, meandering piece that was a radio play with about a dozen songs in it. “We did some work in London and in Los Angeles.” This is what he says about the concept behind the LP: “We’ve got some really good work in the can,” Waters says. They evidently got along, because Rolling Stone reports that Waters has been working with Godrich on his first studio album since 1992’s Amused To Death. Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters met Nigel Godrich in 2014 when the Radiohead producer came in to mix the sound on the Roger Waters: The Wall concert film. Roger Waters Calls Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine ‘The Act of a Gangster’.
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