Roger Waters announces 'The Dark Side of the Moon Redux'

Album drops October 6th

Roger Waters has confirmed The Dark Side of the Moon Redux will be released on October 6th. The project is an epically ambitious reinterpretation of one of the most famous and acclaimed albums in history, 50 years on from recording the original with Pink Floyd. The set will be released on CD, 2 LP and digital with exclusive transparent orange 2 LP and gold cassette available through Waters’ online store.

Waters releases his reinterpretation of “Money” as the first single from the project.

Recorded by Pink Floyd when Waters was just 29, The Dark Side of the Moon was an extraordinary multidimensional meditation on the human experience, the passage of time, descent into madness, and the abyss.

“The memories of a man in his old age – are the deeds of a man in his prime”

As foretold by its opening line, The Dark Side of the Moon Redux sees Waters transcend this half-century void to reinterpret and embellish his original creations with a new perspective gleaned from his own life experience, philosophy, and the wisdom of age, with added emphasis on the philosophical, social and political themes of the original.

Waters’ extraordinary vocal performance adds fresh layers of profundity to his classic lyrics, and gravelly wisdom to his philosophical new creations. Waters and Gus Seyffert’s production strips back Pink Floyd’s psychedelic orchestrations into something rawer and more delicate, but no-less experimentally inventive, exquisitely textured, and rich in musical intertext.

In addition to reimagining each of The Dark Side of the Moon’s original ten tracks – which, like the original, run seamlessly together to create one epic composition — The Dark Side of the Moon Redux LP format will feature a bonus 13-minute original composition inspired by the re-recording as a final track.

“The original Dark Side of the Moon feels in some ways like the lament of an elder being on the human condition. But Dave, Rick, Nick and I were so young when we made it, and when you look at the world around us, clearly the message hasn’t stuck. That’s why I started to consider what the wisdom of an 80 year-old could bring to a reimagined version,” Waters shares.

“When I first mentioned the idea of re-recording The Dark Side of the Moon to Gus and Sean we all thought I was mad, but the more we considered it, the more we thought ‘isn’t that the whole point?’.

“I’m immensely proud of what we have created, a work that can sit proudly alongside the original, hand-in-hand across a half-century of time.”