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David Gilmour: Live in Gdańsk

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Label: EMI Records
Released: 2008.09.16
Time:
 69:27 / 79:47
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): David Gilmour, Phil Manzarena
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD Double
Web address: www.davidgilmour.com
Appears with: Pink Floyd
Purchase date: 2009.03.28
Price in €: 2,00





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Disc 1:
[1] Speak to Me (N.Mason) - 1:22
[2] Breathe [In the Air] (D.Gilmour/R.Waters/R.Wright) - 2:48
[3] Time (D.Gilmour/N.Mason/R.Waters/R.Wright) - 5:37
[4] Breathe [In the Air] Reprise (D.Gilmour/R.Waters/R.Wright) - 1:31
[5] Castellorizon (D.Gilmour) - 3:46
[6] On an Island (D.Gilmour/P.Samson) - 7:26
[7] The Blue (D.Gilmour/Samson) - 6:38
[8] Red Sky at Night (D.Gilmour) - 3:02
[9] This Heaven (D.Gilmour/P.Samson) - 4:32
[10] Then I Close My Eyes (D.Gilmour) - 7:41
[11] Smile (D.Gilmour/P.Samson) - 4:25
[12] Take a Breath (D.Gilmour/P.Samson) - 6:47
[13] A Pocketful of Stones (D.Gilmour/P.Samson) - 5:40
[14] Where We Start (D.Gilmour) - 8:01

Disc 2:
[1] Shine on You Crazy Diamond (D.Gilmour/R.Waters/R.Wright) - 12:06
[2] Astronomy Domine (Ch.Barrett) - 5:02
[3] Fat Old Sun (D.Gilmour) - 6:39
[4] High Hopes (D.Gilmour/P.Samson) - 9:57
[5] Echoes (D.Gilmour/N.Mason/R.Waters/R.Wright) - 25:25
[6] Wish You Were Here (D.Gilmour/R.Waters) - 5:15
[7] A Great Day for Freedom (D.Gilmour/P.Samson) - 5:56
[8] Comfortably Numb (D.Gilmour/R.Waters) - 9:22

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David Gilmour - Guitar, Saxophone, Vocals, Lyricist, Producer, Mixing

Richard Wright - Keyboards, Vocals
Phil Manzanera - Guitar, Vocals, Producer
Jon Carin - Keyboards, Programming, Vocals, Lap Steel Guitar
Guy Pratt - Bass, Guitar, Vocals
Dick Parry - Keyboards, Saxophone
Steve DiStanislao - Drums, Vocals

Leszek Mozdzer - Piano (Guest Appearance)

Baltic Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra - Orchestra
Zbigniew Preisner - Conductor, Orchestral Arrangements
Michal Nesterowicz - Conductor
Michael Kamen - Orchestral Arrangements
Magdalena Amilkiewicz - Cello
Maria Baczynska - Double Bass
Ewa Baranowska - Violin
Malgorzata Bellwon - Cello
Hanna Bereza - Violin
Jacek Birr - Double Bass
Tomasz Bock - Double Bass
Wieslawa Merong Calusinska - Violin
Zdzislaw Cichocki - Double Bass
Sylwia Cieslinska - Viola
Marek Czulak - Viola
Tomasz Diakun - Violin
Ewa Fredrich - Viola
Blazej Golinski - Cello
Marzena Kaczmar Kaminska - Viola
Pawel Kapica - Violin
Karmelita Wojciechowska, Elzbieta - Viola
Malgorzata Kolcz - Double Bass
Sylwia Kolinska - Violin
Marek Kordas - Violin
Anna Kulowska - Cello
Bozena Kwasiborska - Violin
Robert Kwiatowski - Violin
Lukasz Lisowski - Viola
Jadwiga Moskal - Double Bass
Eliza Napierala - Violin
Henryka Orzechowska Cichosz - Violin
Krzysztof Pawlowski - Cello
Malgorzata Piotrowska - Violin
Bozena Pruss Czaja - Violin
Anna Reinholz - Viola
Krystyna Rychlicka - Violin
Anna Sliwa - Violin
Miroslawa Sobczak - Violin
Piotr Staniszewski - Violin
Joanna Szmit Macidlowska - Violin
Maria Wiczynska - Viola
Lidia Zawadzka - Violin

Devin Workman - Engineer, Mixing
Damon Iddins - Engineer, Mixing
Andy Jackson - Engineer, Mixing
Ian Sylvester - Engineer
Colin Norfield - Engineer
Doug Sax - Mastering
John Crawley - Audio Technician
Jonathan Dunlop - Audio Technician
Barry MacLeod - Audio Technician
Steve Prior - Guitar Technician
Mike Clement - Bass Technician
Howard "DJ" Howes - Keyboard Technician
Phil Taylor - Production Design, Guitar Technician
Barry Branford - Lighting Technician
Mickey Curbishley - Lighting
Stephen Sinclair - Lighting Technician
Clarissa Faran - Score Copyist
Steve Knee - Package Design
John Lahiffe - Lighting Technician
Jon Lewis - Monitor Engineer
Paul Loasby - Photography, Management
David MacIlwaine - Sculpture
Paul Makin - Lighting Technician
Mark "Sparky" Risk - Lighting
Roman Rogowiecki - Interpretation
Anna Wloch - Photography
Polly Samson - Lyricist, Photography
Jaroslaw Sellin - Author
Radek Sikorski - Author
Roger Searle - Production Coordination
Andrew Murray - Coordination, Management
Richard Ogden - Coordination
David Morrell - Coordination
Malgorzata J. Maliszewska - Coordination
Peter Wynn Wilson - Coordination
Elena Bello - Management
Nick Belshaw - Management
Ben Ward - Management
Dave Hallybone - Accounting
Rachel Hands - Accounting
Nick Kelsey - Accounting
Doug Wright - Publicity, Promoter
Claire Singers - Publicity, Promoter
Stefan Perskiewicz - Promoter
Nikki Treharne - Merchandising
Peter Bell - Merchandising
Cathy Cleghorn - Merchandising
Steve Hatton - Merchandising
Norman Perry - Merchandising


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2008 CD Columbia 734470
2008 CD Columbia 8869738509
2008 CD EMI 2354882
2008 LP EMI 2354841


Live In Gdańsk is a live album by David Gilmour. It is a part of his On an Island project which includes an album, tour, DVD, and live album. It was released on 22 September 2008. It is a recording of the final show of his On an Island tour in 2006, where he played to an audience of 50,000 at the Gdańsk Shipyard to celebrate Poland's 1980 revolution. The show is notable for being the only show on the tour to feature the song A Great Day for Freedom, which appears on Pink Floyd's final studio album The Division Bell from 1994. It was last performed by Gilmour during his semi-acoustic shows in 2002. It's also the final Pink Floyd-related recording to feature the late Richard Wright, who passed away on September 15, 2008, one week before the concert's official release. Gilmour and his band were backed by the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zbigniew Preisner and Leszek Możdżer on piano. The album debuted at #10 on the UK Album chart and debuted at #26 on the US Billboard album chart.



David Gilmour's Live in Gdansk was recorded and filmed in 2006 at the Polish city's shipyards, the very same historic location where Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement began its populist assault on the country's repressive Soviet-installed regime in 1980. By all accounts of the time it was a truly awesome multimedia spectacle. But there are strange and sad ironies that accompany this release as well. For starters, it was released in the U.K. exactly a week after the death of Richard Wright, Gilmour's longtime bandmate in Pink Floyd, and his keyboardist here. Secondly, it appears during a period of increased tension between Russia and the United States over the latter's proposed missile defense system to be placed in Poland (by the U.S.) and the country's intended membership in NATO. But there is nothing bittersweet about the music to be found on this double-disc package (one of six different packages that document the event and the tour - apparently nobody told Gilmour the recording industry was in an economic crisis). On this version, two and a half hours document the entire concert. Gilmour's band - Wright, Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera, keyboardist Jon Carin, bassist Guy Pratt, drummer Steve DiStanislao, and saxophonist Dick Parry - is accompanied by the Baltic Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, including its 40-piece string section, conducted by Zbigniew Preisner (who did the arrangements on Gilmour's On an Island album).

While cynics can debate the pretentious of this date forever, everyone else can enjoy an utterly engaging, entertaining, and sometimes emotionally moving performance of Gilmour's entire On an Island album and a boxful of Pink Floyd hits to boot. The first disc begins with Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon suite of "Speak to Me," "Breathe," and "Time," and comes to a close with the reprise of the opening track. With the orchestra accompanying the band, the dreaminess and spaciness of the original music miraculously comes through, and Gilmour is in fine voice as well. The rest of disc one is taken up by an almost totally in-sequence performance of On an Island. The live version of the album rocks more, perhaps because of the steady presence of Manzanera, who adds extra punch to Gilmour's airy bluesy one on guitar. This is especially true on "Take a Breath," when his crunchy, crackling power chords come off like something from his own Diamond Head album; his solo against the counterpoint of the orchestra makes it one of the set's true rockist highlights. Disc two is comprised entirely of performances of Pink Floyd tunes from albums as diverse as Atom Heart Mother ("Fat Old Sun"), Wish You Were Here ("Shine on You Crazy Diamond" and its title track), The Piper at the Gates of Dawn ("Astronomy Domine"), Meddle ("Echoes"), The Wall ("Comfortably Numb"), and The Division Bell ("A Great Day for Freedom"). The performances are not terribly spontaneous in part because of the orchestral arrangements, but they are flawless (again, Manzanera's presence adds some real muscle) and, given the sheer quality of the sound, they have plenty of presence and warmth despite being recorded in front of a concert audience. This set may be strictly for Gilmour and Pink Floyd fans, but as such, for all its packaging pomp (it's green though: carbon-neutral cardboard wallets for all the different packages), it feels like something historic and beautifully considered as well as executed. It would have been amazing to be in that audience.

Thom Jurek - All Music Guide



Zwischen dem Erscheinen von Live in Gdansk und dem Tod von Richard Wright lagen nur ein paar Tage. Am Montag, den 15. September 2008 erlag das Gründungsmitglied der legendären Psychedelik-Art-Rock-Legende im Alter von nur 65 Jahren völlig überraschend einem Krebsleiden. Damit verstummen nun endgültig die Rufe einer (überflüssigen) Reunion der britischen Band da, es verstummen aber auch auf ewig die beseelten Keyboards des Stillen und Schüchternen der Floyd, der auch sang und komponierte. Hier sind sie noch einmal zu hören, imposant eingerahmt von der Kulisse der Werft von Danzig, unterstützt vom Baltischen Symphony Orchester oder auch Phil Manzanera von Roxy Music. Im Zentrum der Show im August 2006 steht natürlich das unverkennbare Gitarrenspiel von David Gilmour, dessen Stimme nicht nur bei Songs wie der Syd-Barrett-Hommage „Shine On You Crazy Diamond“ deutlich hörbar schwächelt. Ein paar Monate vorher, bei den grandiosen - als Live At The Royal Albert Hall erhältlichen - Shows in London war das noch anders. Die Songauswahl von Live in Gdansk deckt sich in weiten Teilen mit den drei Albert-Hall-Auftritten, doch es fehlt trotz detaillierten und kristallklaren Sounds deren Magie. An Richard Wright, von dem noch ein letztes Solo-Album erwartet wird, liegt das nicht. Klassiker wie „Echoes“, „Astronomy Domine“ oder „Comfortably Numb“ bekommen erst durch sein Tastenspiel ihre Genialität. Er wird für Gilmour nicht zu ersetzen sein, die beiden waren enge Freunde und musikalisch fast schon telepathisch verbunden. Wright galt als Herz von Pink Floyd, sein Input wurde gerne unterschätzt. Das von einer Doppel-CD bis einer Vinyl-Box in unterschiedlichen Formaten mit teilweise opulenten Bonusmaterial dokumentierte Konzert ist sein unfreiwilliges Vermächtnis geworden. Deswegen soll an dieser Stelle auch die negative Kritik an ein paar Tracks verstummen.

Sven Niechziol - Amazon.de

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