The Dark Side of the Moon Redux, a new version of the legendary Pink Floyd album, has been heard by Nick Mason, who has praised it as “absolutely brilliant.”
Last month, Waters unveiled a new rendition of the Pink Floyd song “Money” and announced that The Dark Side of the Moon Redux will be published on October 6th. Additionally, the final track on his new album’s vinyl editions will be an additional 13-minute original piece that was influenced by the re-recording.
Mason discussed Waters’ adaptation during a Q&A session that followed a screening of the original Pink Floyd The Dark Side Of The Moon at the Dolby Atmos in London.
During his interview with Clash, he said, “I heard the rumour that Roger was working on his own version of it, There was this suggestion that this was going to be a spoiler and Roger was going to go head-to-head with the original version and so on.”
He continued, “He actually sent me a copy of what he was working on and I write to him and said, ‘Annoyingly, it’s absolutely brilliant!’ It was and is. It’s not anything that would be a spoiler for the original at all, it’s an interesting add-on to the thing.”
In a prior announcement about the planned publication, Waters noted, “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.”
He added, “When I first mentioned the idea of re-recording The Dark Side of the Moon to Gus [Seyffert] and Sean [Evans], we all thought I was mad, but the more we considered it, the more we thought, ‘Isn’t that the whole point?’”
In the end, he said, “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,”
