COLUMBIA RECORDS TO RELEASE ‘DAVID GILMOUR LIVE IN GDANSK’ – DOUBLE LIVE ALBUM AND CONCERT DVD

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Todd Brodginski
MSO
Tel: 818-380-0400
Toddb@msopr.com

Fran DeFeo
SONY BMG Music Entertainment
Tel: 212-833-5784
Fran.defeo@sonybmg.com

COLUMBIA RECORDS TO RELEASE ‘DAVID GILMOUR LIVE IN GDANSK’ – DOUBLE LIVE ALBUM AND CONCERT DVD
Available on September 23, 2008

FEATURING PINK FLOYD SONGS NEVER PREVIOUSLY PERFORMED LIVE WITH ORCHESTRA

‘David Gilmour Live In Gdansk’ is a stunning double live album plus concert DVD being released on September 23, 2008 on Columbia Records. ‘David Gilmour Live In Gdansk’, the first solo live album from Pink Floyd’s singer/guitarist, captures magnificently the virtuosity and sheer magic of his concert held in front of 50,000 in the Gdansk shipyards. It was the final performance of his critically acclaimed 2006 ‘On An Island tour’. It also features the first ever recording of selected Pink Floyd classics performed with an orchestra and a twenty-five minute virtuoso performance of Echoes.

David Gilmour said of the Gdansk concert:
“This was the first time I have played in Poland and it was a thrill to be there helping to mark one of the most important anniversaries in recent European history. The Gdansk shipyard is a deeply symbolic place and it was an honour to perform our music in such a historic space. It was particularly exciting to have my friend Zbigniew Preisner there conducting the Baltic Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and to be able to perform my album for the first time as it was intended”

Former President of Poland Lech Walesa and Mayor of Gdansk Pawel Adamowicz invited David Gilmour and his band to perform this very special concert to mark the 26th Anniversary of the founding of Trade Union Solidarity. The concert, funded by the City of Gdansk and Solidarity, was titled “It Started in Gdansk – The Space Of Freedom” and was held on August 26, 2006, a National holiday for the Polish people commemorating the founding in 1980 of The Solidarity Trade Union. Nine years later The Solidarity Trade Union toppled the Communist Government, with its leader Lech Walesa elected President of a democratic Poland.

The double live album ‘David Gilmour Live In Gdansk’, produced by David Gilmour and Phil Manzanera, features the Gdansk concert and demonstrates a musician and his band playing at the very peak of their musical brilliance. The album features arguably definitive performances of classic Pink Floyd songs such as Echoes, High Hopes, Comfortably Numb, Shine on You Crazy Diamond, and Wish You Were Here – it is difficult to see how these powerful performances could be bettered.

The six piece band is accompanied for the only time on the ‘On An Island tour’ by an orchestra: the 40-strong string section of the Baltic Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Zbigniew Preisner, orchestral arranger on David Gilmour’s critically acclaimed solo album, “On An Island”. It is the first ever live recording with an orchestra of Pink Floyd’s ‘High Hopes’ and ‘A Great Day For Freedom’, the latter performed here as a one-off for this special Solidarity anniversary.

Playing with Gilmour at this historic concert was his band of world renowned musicians:
Richard Wright – Pink Floyd’s keyboard player
Phil Manzanera – Roxy Music guitarist and co-producer of On An Island
Guy Pratt – bass player with Pink Floyd and Roxy Music
Jon Carin – keyboards and longtime player with Pink Floyd
Steve Di Stanislao – drums, recently played with Crosby and Nash
Dick Parry – saxophone and longtime Pink Floyd collaborator.

The two and a half hour DVD which accompanies the live album is directed by Gavin Elder. The DVD evocatively portrays the drama of the Gdansk concert, set against the urban landscape of the shipyard and crane-filled skyline. Hung above the stage, suspended on two giant cranes, were six, 16 ton screens, each one focused on a band member and lit in a kaleidoscope of color and lasers by lightmeister Marc Brickman. As well as 113 minutes of concert footage, The DVD includes a riveting 36-minute documentary which includes Gilmour’s private meeting with former President Lech Walesa, chats with the band and crew, concert rehearsals and a moving wreath-laying with Walesa at the Memorial to the shipyard workers killed in the 1970 uprising.

‘David Gilmour Live In Gdansk’ is available in several formats, all of which include all the orchestral tracks; the 113-minute ‘Concert DVD’ includes footage of all the orchestral songs, plus ‘Echoes’ and ‘Astronomy Domine’. ‘Wot’s Uh… The Deal?’ is included only on the vinyl LP set.

Formats:

1) David Gilmour Live In Gdansk – 2 CD + 1 DVD set and 12-page booklet, features:
Disc 1 – Concert Audio CD
Disc 2 – Concert Audio CD
Disc 3 – Concert DVD and Gdansk Diary documentary

2) David Gilmour Live In Gdansk – 2 CD and 12-page booklet, features:
Disc 1 – Concert Audio CD
Disc 2 – Concert Audio CD

3) David Gilmour Live In Gdansk – 2 CD + 2 DVD set and 12-page booklet, features:
Disc 1 – Concert Audio CD
Disc 2 – Concert Audio CD
Disc 3 – Concert DVD and Gdansk Diary
Disc 4 – Extras DVD including three previously unreleased ‘Barn Jams’
and 5.1 audio version of ‘On An Island’

4) David Gilmour Live In Gdansk – 3 CD + 2 DVD Deluxe Box set and 24-page booklet with collectable memorabilia items, features:
Disc 1 – Concert Audio CD
Disc 2 – Concert Audio CD
Disc 3 – Concert DVD and Gdansk Diary
Disc 4 – Extras DVD including three previously unreleased ‘Barn Jams’
and 5.1 audio version of ‘On An Island’
Disc 5 – CD Bonus tracks (live from the 2006 Summer tour).

5) David Gilmour Live In Gdansk (Vinyl) – 5 LP Box Set and 20-page booklet, plus web-pass to download the album, features:
The full Live From Gdansk concert including ‘Wot’s… Uh The Deal?’, plus extra audio tracks that include two of the private recording sessions known as the ‘Barn Jams’.

The full tracklistings for David Gilmour Live In Gdansk are as follows:

Disc 1 – CD	Disc 2 – CD	Discs 1 & 2 – CD Credits
Speak To Me	Shine On You Crazy Diamond	Produced By:
Breathe	Astronomy Domine	David Gilmour &
Time	Fat Old Sun	Phil Manzanera
Breathe (reprise)	High Hopes *
Castellorizon *	Echoes	Audio Mixing:
On An Island *	Wish You Were Here	Andy Jackson
The Blue *	A Great Day For Freedom *	David Gilmour
Red Sky At Night *	Comfortably Numb *	Devin Workman
This Heaven *		Damon Iddins
Then I Close My Eyes *
Smile *		* Accompanied by the 40-strong section of the Baltic Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, conducted by:
Take A Breath *		Zbigniew Preisner
A Pocketful Of Stones *
Where We Start *		Disc 3 – DVD
Disc 3 – DVD	Disc 3 – DVD	Credits
Part 1 – David Gilmour Live in Gdansk	Part 2 – Gdansk Diary	Part 1 – Concert
Castellorizon	36 minute film documenting the Solidarity Concert events	Produced by:
On An Island		Dione Orrom
The Blue
Red Sky At Night		Directed by:
This Heaven		Gavin Elder
Then I Close My Eyes
Smile		Part 2 – Gdansk Diary
Take A Breath		Produced by:
A Pocketful of Stones		Dione Orrom
Where We Start
Astronomy Domine		Director, Cameraman, Editor:
High Hopes		Gavin Elder
Echoes
A Great day For Freedom
Comfortably Numb
		Disc 4 – DVD
Disc 4 – DVD	Disc 4 – DVD	Audio
Extras	Credits	5.1 Surround Sound Version
Live At the Mermaid Theatre, London, March 2006
Shine On You Crazy Diamond		Castellorizon
Wearing The Inside Out	Filming Directed by David Mallet	On An Island
Comfortably Numb		The Blue
		Take A Breath
Live from the AOL Sessions, New York, April 2006		Red Sky At Night
On An Island		This Heaven
High Hopes		Then I Close My Eyes
	Filming Directed by Gary Corrigan and Shauna O’Brien	Smile
Live From Abbey Road, London, August 2006		A Pocketful Of Stones
The Blue		Where We Start
Take A Breath
Echoes (Acoustic)	Filming Directed by A J Jankel	Produced by David Gilmour, Phil Manzanera and Chris Thomas

Barn Jams 2007 (previously unreleased), recorded live in the UK, January 2007
Barn Jam 166
Barn Jam 192	Filming Directed by Gavin Elder
Barn Jam 121	‘Barn Jam’ only personnel:
	David Gilmour: Guitar / drums
	Richard Wright: Keyboards
	Guy Pratt: Bass / Guitar
	Steve DiStanislao: Drums / bass
Disc 5 – CD		Disc 5 – CD
Bonus Tracks from the ‘On An Island’ Tour, 2006		Credits
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Vienne, July 31/Venice August 12)		Produced by David Gilmour and Phil Manzanera
Dominoes (Paris, March 15)
The Blue (Vienne, July 31)		Audio mix by Phil Manzanera, Andy Jackson, Devin Workman, Damon Iddins,
Take A Breath (Munich, July 29)
Wish You Were Here (Glasgow, May 27)
Coming Back To Life (Florence, August 2)
Find The Cost Of Freedom (Manchester, May 26)
This Heaven (Vienne, July 31)
Wearing The Inside Out (Milan, March 25)
A Pocketful Of Stones (Vienne, July 31)
Where We Start (Vienne, July 31)
On The Turning Away (Venice, August 31)

www.davidgilmour.com

For Further Information contact:
Claire Singers/Doug Wright
LD Communications
Tel: 020 439 7222
Claire.singers@ldcommunications.co.uk
Doug.wright@ldcommunications.co.uk

Fran DeFeo
SONY BMG Music Entertainment
Tel: 212-833-5784
Fran.defeo@sonybmg.com

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COLUMBIA RECORDS TO RELEASE 'DAVID GILMOUR LIVE IN GDANSK' – DOUBLE LIVE ALBUM AND CONCERT DVD; AVAILABLE ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2008; FEATURING PINK FLOYD SONGS NEVER PREVIOUSLY PERFORMED LIVE WITH ORCHESTRA

COLUMBIA RECORDS TO RELEASE ‘DAVID GILMOUR LIVE IN GDANSK’ – DOUBLE LIVE ALBUM AND CONCERT DVD

COLUMBIA RECORDS TO RELEASE ‘DAVID GILMOUR LIVE IN GDANSK’ – DOUBLE LIVE ALBUM AND CONCERT DVDAvailable on September 23, 2008 FEATURING PINK FLOYD SONGS NEVER PREVIOUSLY PERFORMED LIVE WITH ORCHESTRA

COLUMBIA RECORDS TO RELEASE ‘DAVID GILMOUR LIVE IN GDANSK’ – DOUBLE LIVE ALBUM AND CONCERT DVD
Available on September 23, 2008

FEATURING PINK FLOYD SONGS NEVER PREVIOUSLY PERFORMED LIVE WITH ORCHESTRA