David Gilmour - Live In Gdansk (2 CD)
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Artist: David GilmourBrand: Epic
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-09-23
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Speak to Me
- Breathe (In the Air)
- Time
- Breathe (In the Air) (Reprise)
- Castellorizon
- On an Island
- The Blue
- Red Sky at Night
- This Heaven
- Then I Close My Eyes
- Smile
- Take a Breath
- A Pocketful of Stones
- Where We Start
- Shine on You Crazy Diamond
- Astronomy Domine
- Fat Old Sun
- High Hopes
- Echoes
- Wish You Were Here
- A Great Day for Freedom
- Comfortably Numb
Music reviews of Live In Gdansk (2 CD)
Music Review: What's not to like?
Rating: 5 Stars
First, I did not follow Gilmour (or Waters) since Pink Floyd dissolved. I bought this based on sampling the songs I did not know (his solo material). I liked what I heard. I did not even know he was doing On An Island complete until reading reviews!
This is a solid effort start to finish with superior sound quality. (I only bought the CD set; passed on the DVD's). The Floyd stuff great. The high points for me are Fat Old Sun (why did they leave this of the Pompeii DVD - arrgghhh!), Astronomy, and (wow) a complete rendering of Echoes. Floyd was always pretty much a play the album live band - not much difference from the studio, certainly not prone to re-arrangements of any sort. The same is true here, but I love these songs and the band is larger so we get a fuller sound and more textures.
The band is great. Being an avid Roxy Music fan,I wish Manzenera stepped out a little, but he certainly adds skillful backup. As you know or have read, Richard Wright is on keyboard (along with Jon Carin). This really helps the older material sound like, well, Floyd. In fact, if I close my eyes I could not distinguish a lot of this from Floyd, especially on cuts like Fat Old Sun, Echoes and Diamond. Wright was such a superbly skilled musician; and humble. He will be missed.
I really like the overall mellowness of On An Island. I am really impressed by Gilmour's playing on these songs - very emotive, he really soars. And the orchestra fills the sound out nicely. Stylistically not very different from Floyd's sound, at least their mellower side (think Meddle without One of These Days).
The booklet with the CD (is it the same as the DVD set?) is lame. I mean, it repeats the band and orchestra info three times! I would have liked more (and larger) photos. But I was really impressed with the On An Island tracks, the Floyd material is solid, and if you're reading this you are probably some kind of fan and have bought/plan to buy this. I doubt I will backtrack into Gilmour's solo catalog, but I am certainly enjoying this release. So if you are an old Floyd lover who (as I did) paid no attention to his later solo efforts, give this a listen.
Description of Live In Gdansk (2 CD)
Catch the 2-CD full live concert David played at the Gdansk, Poland shipyards in commemoration of the Solidarity Movement. Includes Pink Floyd favorites "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" and "Breathe."Classic Rock CDs
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