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David Gilmour: Rattle That Lock

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Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2015.09.18
Time:
 51:17 (Deluxe: 74:23)
Category: Blues Rock, Progressive Rock, Jazz
Producer(s): David Gilmour, Phil Manzanera, Andy Jackson
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.davidgilmour.com
Appears with: Pink Floyd
Purchase date: 2015
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] 5 A.M. (D.Gilmour) - 3:04
[2] Rattle That Lock (P.Samson/D.Gilmour/M.Boumendil) - 4:55
[3] Faces of Stone (D.Gilmour) - 5:32
[4] A Boat Lies Waiting (P.Samson/D.Gilmour) - 4:34
[5] Dancing Right in Front of Me (D.Gilmour) - 6:11
[6] In Any Tongue (P.Samson/D.Gilmour) - 6:46
[7] Beauty (D.Gilmour) - 4:28
[8] The Girl in the Yellow Dress (P.Samson/D.Gilmour) - 5:25
[9] Today (P.Samson/D.Gilmour) - 5:55
[10] And Then... (D.Gilmour) - 4:27

Only on the deluxe edition:
[11] Rattle That Lock [Extended Mix] (D.Gilmour/P.Samson/M.Boumendil) - 6:24
[12] The Girl in the Yellow Dress [Orchestral Version] (D.Gilmour/P.Samson) - 4:07
[13] Rattle That Lock [Youth Mix - 12" extended Radio Dub] (D.Gilmour/P.Samson/M.Boumendil) - 8:26
[14] Rattle That Lock [Radio edit] (D.Gilmour/P.Samson/M.Boumendil) - 3:59

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David Gilmour - Guitars, Lead Vocals on [2-6, 8, 9 11, 12, 14], Keyboards on [1-7, 9-11, 13-14], Piano on [1, 3, 4, 5], SNCF Sample on [2], Hammond Organ on [2, 5, 9], Bass Guitar on [5, 6, 7, 10], Bass Harmonica on [7], Electric Piano on [9, 10], Producer, Engineer, Mixing

Gabriel Gilmour - Piano on [6]
Steve Distanislao - Drums on [2, 3, 5, 7, 9], Percussion on [2, 3, 7], Backing Vocals on [2]
Guy Pratt - Bass Guitar on [2, 9]
Phil Manzanera - Hammond Organ on [2, 3], Keyboard Elements on [2, 3, 6], Acoustic Guitar on [3, 9], Producer
Andy Newmark - Drums on [5, 6, 10]
Danny Cummings - Percussion on [3, 4, 5, 7, 10]
Damon Iddins - Accordion on [3]
David Crosby - Backing Vocals on [4]
Graham Nash - Backing Vocals on [4]
Jools Holland - Piano on [8]
Rado Klose - Guitar on [8]
Robert Wyatt - Cornet on [8]
Chris Laurence - Double Bass on [8]
Mica Paris - Backing Vocals on [2, 9]
Louise Marshall - Backing Vocals on [2, 9]
The Liberty Choir - Backing Vocals on [2]
Michaël Boumendil - Original SNCF Jingle on [2]
Richard Wright - Voice Sample on [4]

Zbigniew Preisner - Orchestration & Arrangements on [1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10]
Robert Ziegler - Orchestra Conductor
Rolf Wilson - Orchestra Leader
MJ Paranzino - Choir Leader

Andy Jackson - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
Kevin Madigan - Additional Engineer Vocal
Mike Boddy - Additional Engineer
Andres Mesa - Assistant Engineer
Geoff Foster - Engineer Orchestra
John Prestage - Assistant Engineer Orchestra
Laurence Anslow - Assistant Engineer Orchestra
James Guthrie - Mastering
Joel Plante - Mastering
Dave Stansbie - Art Direction
Aubrey Powell - Creative Director
The Creative Corporation - Sleeve Design
Rupert Truman - Sleeve Photography

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Recorded between 2014–2015 at Medina Studio, Hove; Astoria Studio, Middlesex; Abbey Road Studios; AIR Studios, London.



RATTLE THAT LOCK is David Gilmour’s fourth solo album and follows the No1 platinum release ‘On An Island’ (although in the interim there was of course the Pink Floyd release ‘The Endless River;’ which went to No 1 in 21 countries). It was released worldwide on Friday 18 September 2015, and is available now.
 
Rattle That Lock includes 10 songs, all with music by David: 5 with lyrics by novelist Polly Samson, 2 by David himself and 3 instrumentals. French composer Michaël Boumendil has also contributed to the title track, about which more below.
 
The album was recorded at various places, including David’s Astoria houseboat studio and in Hove, Sussex, UK. As with ‘On An Island’, production was by David Gilmour and Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera, with engineering by Andy Jackson, assisted by Damon Iddins.
 
Live dates have been booked to support the album release, and, in addition to the 2015 dates across Europe, several shows have been announced in North America for March and April 2016, with stops in Los Angeles, Toronto, Chicago and New York. Ticket buyers resident in North America will be among the first to receive the new album, as every ticket purchased online will include a Rattle That Lock CD.

If you have already bought a ticket, don’t forget to redeem your CD. Details are under ‘Album Offer’ on this
The first single, also titled ‘Rattle That Lock’, was released digitally on July 17th, 2015. The song begins with the four notes, created by Michaël Boumendil, which precede announcements at French SNCF railway stations which David recorded on his iPhone at Aix-en-Provence station.  Polly Samson’s lyrics were inspired by Book II of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, which is also featured in her recent acclaimed novel, The Kindness.  The single also features The Liberty Choir, as well as singers Mica Paris and Louise Marshall.
 
Rattle That Lock’s striking cover was art directed by Dave Stansbie from The Creative Corporation under the creative directorship of Aubrey Powell from Hipgnosis.
Front cover photograph is by Rupert Truman of StormStudios, while artist photographs in the various release formats are by Kevin Westenberg, with recording session photographs by Polly Samson.
 
www.davidgilmour.com



If Pink Floyd‘s mostly instrumental and ambient 2014 album The Endless River left you wishing for more classic elements — like, say, David Gilmour‘s husky vocals and stinging guitar — his fourth solo album, Rattle That Lock, should fit the bill.

On his first project since Pink Floyd put an end to their long career with The Endless River, which was pieced together from leftover studio tracks dating back to 1994, Gilmour continues on the path the band laid down decades ago with a concept album about a typical day in the life of a middle-aged man coming to terms with loss, mortality and his varied musical influences.

Written by Gilmour with his wife, Polly Samson, Rattle That Lock is both autobiographical and meditative, a look at a life filled with the usual shares of love, hope, hurt and joy. On “Today,” which comes near the end of the narrative, it’s all pretty much summed up with a Floyd-funky rhythm buoying a live-in-the-moment sentiment. It’s not heavy, and it never goes as deep as Pink Floyd classics like The Dark Side of the Moon or The Wall, but for the 69-year-old Gilmour, it’s where life has taken him.

The journey to this place is what Rattle That Lock is all about. The 10 songs (led by the melancholy instrumental “5 A.M.,” the title of which recalls former bandmater Roger Waters‘ opening track on his 1984 solo debut, The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, “4:30 AM”) drift along various routes: rock, pop, jazz, ambient. It’s as much Gilmour’s story as it is Pink Floyd’s during the later years. There’s even a tribute to the group’s late keyboardist Rick Wright, whose instrumental tracks were the impetus for The Endless River.

Rattle That Lock is more rock-oriented than that record. There are three instrumental cuts, which float somewhere between the ethereal and the concrete, but it’s the songs featuring Gilmour’s voice that invite, for better or worse, the Pink Floyd comparisons. The title track recalls the band’s ’80s and ’90s work, when they were trying to carve out a new identity following Waters’ departure; the biting guitar that caps “Dancing Right in Front of Me” is vintage Gilmour; and “Today” chugs along with Animals-era punch.

Still, there’s nothing as majestic as “There’s No Way Out of Here,” from Gilmour’s eponymous 1978 debut, on Rattle That Lock. But following the somewhat exasperated exhale of The Endless River, it’s about as close to a classic Pink Floyd album fans are going to get these days.

Michael Gallucci  - September 16, 2015
ultimateclassicrock.com



After briefly reviving and then saying goodbye to Pink Floyd in 2014, David Gilmour will return this September with Rattle That Lock, a new album and the guitarist's first solo studio LP since 2006's On an Island. "Rattle That Lock," the album's title track and first single, will be unveiled July 17th, at which time the LP will become available for preorder at David Gilmour's official site. The album arrives September 18th.

The 10-track LP features lyrics largely penned by Gilmour's wife, novelist Polly Samson, as well as contributions from Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera, who co-produced Rattle That Lock with Gilmour. According to Gilmour's official site, the album's first single "Rattle That Lock" "begins with the four notes, created by [sound designer] Michaël Boumendil, which precede announcements at French SNCF railway stations which David recorded on his phone at Aix-en-Provence station. Polly's lyrics were inspired by Book II of John Milton's Paradise Lost."

The Rattle That Lock cover was created by The Creative Corporation's Dave Stansbie under the creative directorship of Aubrey Powell from Hipgnosis, the company that designed many of Pink Floyd's most iconic album covers.

Rattle That Lock will be available in a variety of different formats, from digital download and heavyweight vinyl to a deluxe box edition featuring four Barn Jam films, four non-album audio tracks, four documentaries and two promo clips. The deluxe edition, which will be available as both a CD/DVD and CD/Blu-ray, will also house "two hardback books, a double-sided poster, a postcard in a dedicated envelope and a David Gilmour plectrum," the official Gilmour site writes.

Last October, Gilmour told Rolling Stone that, following the release of Rattle That Lock, he hoped to embark on "an old man's tour, not a 200-date sort of thing." The guitarist stuck to his word, announcing four North American shows in 2016: March 24th at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl, March 31st at Toronto's Air Canada Center, April 8th at Chicago's United Center and April 11th at New York's Madison Square Garden. Tickets for all four shows go on sales July 17th at Ticketmaster; ticket buyers will also receive a CD copy of Rattle That Lock.

Rattle That Lock marks Gilmour's fourth solo album, following his self-titled 1978 debut, 1984's About Face and On an Island. In 2014, Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason revisited music they recorded with keyboardist Rick Wright during Pink Floyd's The Division Bell sessions to create the band's farewell LP The Endless River.

"I think we have successfully commandeered the best of what there is [and] I suspect that it is," Gilmour said of Pink Floyd. "It's a shame, but this is the end."

Daniel Kreps - July 16, 2015
RollingStone.com



With last year’s album, The Endless River, supposedly marking the end of Pink Floyd, this is an opportune time for their guitarist to release his fourth solo album. As the primary architect of Floyd’s sweeping soundscapes, Gilmour has transposed them on to 10 shorter but equally elegiac, very beautiful songs, half of them written with his wife, the novelist Polly Samson. There’s an underdeveloped “a day in the life” theme running throughout; whose life isn’t clear, but the twilit A Boat Lies Waiting – with sighing harmonies by David Crosby and Graham Nash, and a mumbled monologue similar to that on The Great Gig in the Sky – is dedicated to late keyboardist Richard Wright, so this may be Gilmour’s own life on display. If it is, he’s preoccupied these days with looking back: the autumnal Faces of Stone ruminates on old age, while the fragile jazz confection The Girl in the Yellow Dress looks back at his earliest musical influence. Fittingly, the instrumental finale, And Then…, quietly ebbs away, leaving pleasurable melancholy in its wake.

Caroline Sullivan - 17 September 2015
© 2015 Guardian News and Media



Today brings the release of David Gilmour’s first new album in nearly a decade, Rattle That Lock. Spotify users can stream it in its entirety below.

Rattle That Lock, the long-awaited follow-up to 2006’s On an Island, was recorded in collaboration with Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera, Jools Holland, and Gilmour’s wife, Polly Sampson, who assisted in writing the lyrics. Recording took place mostly in the former Pink Floyd guitarist’s Brighton, UK studio, as well as on his houseboat. It’s preceded by the singles “Today” and the title track.

According to Sampson, the theme of the album is “‘Carpe Diem’ … seize every moment, look to the future, ‘Just Do It’ and don’t be afraid or hold back.”

© 2007-2015 Consequence of Sound



Rattle That Lock is the fourth solo album by British musician David Gilmour. It was released on 18 September 2015. Gilmour will undertake a short tour of Europe in September and October 2015 to support the album, and a similar tour of the U.S. and Canada will follow in March and April 2016. There is also a South America tour scheduled for December 2015. The artwork for the album was created by Dave Stansbie from The Creative Corporation under the direction of Aubrey Powell, who has worked with David Gilmour and Pink Floyd since the late 1960s.

The album was recorded at Gilmour's own recording studios. Phil Manzanera, co-producer of the album, estimates that Gilmour has been writing the material for Rattle That Lock over the past five years, though he pointed out that one piano piece was recorded 18 years ago in Gilmour's living room. The majority of the album was recorded at Medina Studio, in Hove, with additional recording being carried out at the Astoria houseboat studio. The final Pink Floyd album, The Endless River, was similarly recorded and produced using a combination of the two studios. Orchestra parts were recorded at AIR Studios in London and the Liberty Choir were recored in a South London church. The album was mixed at Astoria, with mastering for the vinyl release being carried out by James Guthrie and Joel Plante at das boot recording in Lake Tahoe, California.

The title track Rattle That Lock was inspired by and makes use of the SNCF jingle, composed by Michaël Boumendil. Gilmour heard and recorded the jingle on his iPhone at Aix-en-Provence station whilst travelling to visit friends. When Boumendil first got a phone message from Gilmour, he thought it might be a prank, so didn't return the call. The lyrics for the track were written by Gilmour's wife and long time collaborator, Polly Samson and are based around the themes of Book II of John Milton's Paradise Lost. The musicians Mica Paris and Louise Marshall, together with the Liberty Choir perform on the track.

David's son, Gabriel performs piano on the song "In Any Tongue", making his recording debut.

The cover features a landscape photograph by Rupert Truman of StormStudios with painted corvids escaping a locked cage. The album book's photographs were taken by Kevin Westenberg with Polly Samson contributing recording session photographs.

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5 A.M.

Instrumental.


RATTLE THAT LOCK

Whatever it takes to break
Got to do it
From the Burning Lake
Or the Eastern Gate
You'll get through it
Rattle that lock and lose those chains
Rattle that lock and lose those chains
Rattle that lock and lose those chains
Rattle that lock

Let's go do it
Have it all our way
Go back to where we blew it
And lose our heads along the way
So long Sin, au revoir Chaos
If there's a Heaven it can wait
So long Sin and au revoir Chaos
If there's a Heaven...

And all the other travellers
Become phantoms to our eyes
The furies and the revellers
The fallen angels in disguise
No Discord, Chance or Rumour
Is going to interrupt this bliss
No Discord, Chance or Rumour
To interrupt this...

So let's get to it
It's calling like a flame
Through the darkness and the night
A world suspended on a golden chain
No Discord, Chance or Rumour
Is going to interrupt this bliss
No Discord, Chance or Rumour
To interrupt this...

Rattle that lock and lose those chains
Rattle that lock and lose those chains
Rattle that lock and lose those chains


FACES OF STONE

Faces of stone that watched from the dark
As the wind swirled around and you took my arm in the park
Images framed, hung high in the trees
And you talked of your youth but the years had turned dry as the leaves

Your lover was gone, his replacement to hand
And just what the difference was, you could not understand
In darkening grey we walked back through the streets
Then you talked all night long of your childhood home by the sea

And I, my disguise a mask chosen by you
Believed every word I heard
At least I think that's what I tried to do

We sat on the roof - the night overflowed
No more was said but I learned all I needed to know
Your Hollywood smile shone a light on the past
But it was the future that you held so tight to your heart


A BOAT LIES WAITING

Something I never knew
In silence I'd hear you
And a boat lies waiting
Still your clouds all flaming
That old time easy feeling

What I lost was an ocean
Now I'm drifting through without you
In this sad barcarolle

What I lost was an ocean
And I'm rolling right behind you
In this sad barcarolle

It rocks you like a cradle
It rocks you to the core
You'll sleep like a baby
As it knocks at Death's door


DANCING RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME

Maybe I should have shown you a clearer plainer truth
That doesn't care about summer and less about youth
Now in this silence what more is there to do
Something has broken in me and in you

In watchful dependence a satellite spins
Cautiously circling the space that I'm in
It's bouncing me signals - distorted by time
And I'm stuck here waiting for the stars to align

Dancing right in front of me, all the lives I once could see
Slipping to and slipping fro, disappearing
Who's to know where they have gone - just out of sight
Into the shadows of my night
Who started out as stars in my eyes

There's a wide horizon, go on now take a chance
Your star is shining it lights a brighter path
It's all there inside you, take one day at a time
Reeling, freewheeling, I want to watch you fly


IN ANY TONGUE

Home and done it's just begun
His heart weighs more, more than it ever did before
What has he done? God help my son
Hey, stay a while, I'll stay up
No sugar is enough to bring sweetness to his cup
I know sorrow tastes the same on any tongue

How was I to feel it
When a gun was in my hands
And I'd waited for so long
How was I to see straight
In the dust and blinding sun
Just a pair of boots on the ground

On the screen the young men die
The children cry in the rubble of their lives
What has he done? God help my son
Hey, stay a while, I'll stay up
The volume pumped right up but not enough to drown it out
I hear "Mama" sounds the same in any tongue

How am I to see you
When my faith stands in the way
And the wailing is long done
How am I to know you
With a joystick in my hand
When the call to arms has come


BEAUTY

Instrumental.


THE GIRL IN THE YELLOW DRESS

She mesmerises with a smile
Dark eyes as compelling as the bourbon
The girl in the canary yellow dress
Says yes

She flips a pack of cigarettes
He doesn't smoke but he takes one nonetheless
It helps to keep his motives true
(Gauloise-blue)
What else is the poor boy supposed to do?

She dances like a flame
Words unheard
Eyes closed and yellow dress
Whirls and swirls

It's late the hour's growing horns
The band seems to draw her ever closer
This girl gets right down in the groove
Woos and moves
Leads him on to where they play the blues

She dances like a flame
Has no cares, yellow dress flares
Eyes closed, arms above, she shakes
Swirls and snakes

Too late in this folie à trois
He sees that her heart is pounding for
Big daddy who falls down to his knees
Begging her please
Lifts his sax, says here's my little tease

Her dancing sets the place on fire
Heaven and hell
The flames curl up his spine
As she shakes, whirls and snakes


TODAY

If you should wake and find me gone
Keep safe this night and dwell upon
Such murmurations, sun sunk deep
Now close your eyes and go to sleep

What a day it's been a day of shoot the breezing
What a day it's been this time of year
Just a day when the weight of the world slides away

Feel that sun on your back see the shadows falling
Sea meets shore and soothes it with a song
If this should be my last day on earth
I'll sing along

Let's forget all the skies cast over and grey
And the squalling tempests of doubt
Holding on clinging tight in the wreckage of love
But today

What a time to dream what a day of easy
What a day it's been this time of year
Just a day when the weight of the world slides away

Evening Star, a guitar in the smoke of the fire
Light of gold in the garden of old
I would take it all again, if it came my way
But today


AND THEN...

Instrumental.

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