Roger Waters completely re-records Dark Side Of The Moon

Most recently, he made headlines with his comments on the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. In a video message to the UN Security Council at the invitation of Russia, Roger Waters described the attack on Ukraine as “illegal”, but indirectly accused the USA and the West of having provoked the Russian attack.

Now the co-founder of Pink Floyd commented on his big artistic project on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of “The Dark Side Of The Moon” – Waters has re-recorded the entire album. Without his former comrades-in-arms, with whom he is hopelessly at odds. Instead, musicians from his long-standing band, with whom he also recorded the “Lockdown Session”, are involved in the reinterpretation of the milestone.

“It’s a bit like trying to recreate Queen Mum,” Waters told ROLLING STONE. “You can be hung from the nearest tree for it. But I do not care. I did it.”

Waters has since re-recorded nearly all ten tracks from Pink Floyd’s 1973 album. His reinterpretation of “The Dark Side Of The Moon” isn’t quite finished yet, and a possible release date hasn’t been set. But Waters’ new “Dark Side” sounds significantly different than the epochal work of Pink Floyd. The harmonic structures of the songs were preserved, but the sound design is sometimes completely different. So Waters has almost completely dispensed with rock guitars and added some lyrics.

“This music expresses my mantra,” says Waters, “what I’ve been trying to say my whole life.”

He sees the fact that his former band recently recorded a piece with the Ukrainian rock musician Andrij Khlywnjuk as “waving the blue and yellow flag empty of meaning. By the way, that’s the reason why I left Pink Floyd: I had political principles, a vision. The others either had none or others.”

Read the full story of Roger Waters’ re-recording of “The Dark Side Of The Moon”, how it sounds and what he has to say about it, in the upcoming issue 03/23 of ROLLIG STONE, out February 23rd.

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