2023-08-11 05:09:09
The fruit of the meeting between the guitarist of Pink Floyd and the electronic music group The Orb comes out on September 29 under the name of Metallic Sheres In Color.
Let’s go back to the genesis of this project: David Gilmour revisits the song “Chicago / Change The World” by Graham Nash for the benefit of the hacker Gary McKinnon, who risked extradition to the United States. The Orbalso rallied to the cause of the British hacker, remixed this same title and asked the guitarist to Pink Floyd if he might add guitar parts to it. It was done, the recording took place at the studio of Youth (Martin Glover) and the album will bear the name Metallic Spheres which can be characterized as a fusion between progressive rock and Ambient music. This album, released in October 2010, was one of the first recordings to be released also in a surround sound version called 3D60 Audio.
“We spent a day with David Gilmour in the studio with his guitar, and he just plugged in and started playing and it became this 25-minute track,” said Youth at Prog Magazine in 2010. “After David left, I thought there was so much twist in that jam that we might stretch it, put a few elements in it, and make it a 50-minute album.”
“The idea of Metallic Spheres In Color was that Alex Paterson (founder of The Orb) might have gone further on the first version, and he didn’t really have the opportunity because we had a philosophy of making music like the Blade Runner soundtrack meets “Wish You Were Here,” says Youth, who worked on the original and remixed the new version. “So I asked him why not remix it and make it a classic The Orb? And in doing that, it’s almost like a completely different album.”
Here is the first movement:
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