Pink Floyd has launched a brand new model of their 1994 tune “A Nice Day for Freedom.”
The up to date rendition will function the b-side to bodily copies of “Hey Hey Rise Up,” the group’s new single — and first new music in 28 years — which was unveiled in April.
“Utilizing A Nice Day for Freedom because the B-side of the brand new Pink Floyd single, ‘Hey Hey Rise Up’ appeared like an apparent and related selection,” famous a message accompanying the brand new model’s video. “And David [Gilmour] has, for a while, needed to report an easier extra direct model of the tune.”
The outline additional famous that the audio was taken from rehearsal’s for the band’s Pulse dwell album and featured “the unique drums and bass by Nick [Mason] and David.” Gilmour additionally supplied “new piano, Prophet 5 synthesizer and Hammond [organ]” on the up to date monitor.
Take heed to the brand new model of “A Nice Day for Freedom” beneath.
Initially launched on the band’s 1994 album The Division Bell, “A Nice Day for Freedom” was impressed by the autumn of the Berlin Wall.
“There was an exquisite second of optimism when the Wall got here down – the discharge of Japanese Europe from the non-democratic facet of the socialist system,” Gilmour defined to Guitar World in ’94. “However what they’ve now would not appear to be a lot better. Once more, I am pretty pessimistic about all of it. I type of want and dwell in hope, however I are likely to assume that historical past strikes at a a lot slower tempo than we predict it does. I really feel that actual change takes an extended, very long time.”
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