It’s a perennial Floyd fan favourite – particularly as a gift at Christmas time – is this annual official wall calendar.

An item which has been produced for many years now, the standardised format is roughly the same size as a vinyl album – roughly 12″ (or 30cm) square, with the calendar opening up to have a double page spread per month.

The calendar this year – as the full title suggests – could be considered a companion piece to the band’s lavish Pink Floyd The Early Years 1965-72 box set (and subsequent “breakout” year sets). Each month provides a blend of (mostly) black and white shots from the band’s initial years, and includes live shots, backstage, studio and posed press pictures.

The calendar each year is often squirrelled away as a collectable for the years to come, and earlier examples are now quite sought after, and we’re sure this one will prove just as popular.

If you want to place your order now, you can do so through the Official Pink Floyd Shop by Clicking Here

Rchard Wright, who co-founded Pink Floyd in 1965 and played on all but one album in the band’s discography, died 10 years ago today at the age of 65 after a battle with cancer. “It is hard to overstate the importance of his musical voice in the Pink Floyd of the Sixties and Seventies,” Waters said at the time in a statement. Wright’s jazzy piano and organ lines, his early songwriting credits and his venerable vocal performances were all hallmarks of Pink Floyd’s sound. “He was my musical partner and my friend,” Gilmour said. “In the welter of arguments about who or what was Pink Floyd, Rick’s enormous input was frequently forgotten.”

As we previously reported back in August , it has now been officially confirmed that Roger Waters, in conjunction with the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Orchestra, has been working on a new album – Igor Stravinksky’s The Soldier’s Tale – to be released via Sony Music Classical, on October 26th, 2018.

Due October 26th from Sony Classical Masterworks, Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale is a new adaptation of the narration for Stravinsky’s 1918 theatrical work solely for orchestra, where Waters is set to narrate the story and voice all of its characters. Waters worked with seven musicians associated with the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, forming an ensemble that sought to honor Stravinsky’s work while reinterpreting it for a new audience.

According to a press release, this project is but the latest in a string of forays into the world of high art for Waters. “Both here and in other works Waters certainly feels an affinity with this moment in the history of music whenever he has to decide how atonal to make his music. How radical should it be? And how is music related to the Classical and Romantic tradition? This is arguably the most important question that progressive music has to ask itself today.”

Waters’ choice of The Soldier’s Tale is serendipitous, give that “he has wanted for a long time to engage more deeply with the work of a composer whose weight and occasional inaccessibility may perhaps have much in common with” his own music.

Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale is set for release October 26th via Sony Classical Masterworks

Tracklisting and order details are available below

Part 1:
1. The Soldiers March
2. Slogging Homeword
3. Airs by a Stream
4. As You Can Hear…
5. The Soldiers March (Reprise)
6. Eventually, Joseph Reaches his Home Village…
7. Pastorale
8. The Soldier, Disconsolate…
9. Pastorale (Reprise)
10. The Soldier, Slowly Coming Back to Himself…
11. Airs by a Stream (Reprise) – To Stretch Out on the Grass…
12. Hey Satan, You Bastard…
13. Airs by a Stream (2nd Reprise)
14. Now to be Gained Here…

Part 2:
15. The Soldiers March (2nd Reprise) – Down a Hot and Dusty Track…
16. He Doesn’t Even Know Himself…
17. The Soldiers March (3rd Reprise) – Will he Take the Road to Home…
18. He doesn’t have a Home Anymore…
19. The Royal March
20. So all was Arranged…
21. Later that Night…
22. The Little Concert – Light Floods the Eastern Sky…
23. The Soldier, with a Confident Air…
24. Three Dances – Tango, Pt. 1
25. Three Dances – Tango, Pt. 2
26. Three Dances – Waltz & Ragtime
27. So First a Tango…
28. The Devil’s Dance
29. The Devil, Confused…
30. The Little Chorale
31. The Devil Recovers Some of his Wits
32. The Devil’s Song – All Right! You’ll be Safe at Home…
33. Hm, a Fair Warning…
34. Grand Chorale (Part 1)
35. Spring, Summer, Autumn…
36. Grand Chorale (Part 2)
37. Steady Now…
38. Grand Chorale (Part 3)
39. Steady, Just Smell the Flowers…
40. Grand Chorale (Part 4)
41. Now I have Everything…
42. Grand Chorale (Part 5)
43. The Princess, all Excited…
44. Grand Chorale (Part 6)
45. And so, Off They Go…
46. Triumphal March of the Devil

The Soldier’s Tale – Narrated By Roger Waters

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