Columbia/Legacy Recordings and Acoustic Sounds
to release deluxe products later this year
This year, Roger
Waters and long term collaborator, Pink Floyd’s sound engineer, James Guthrie,
revisit Waters last solo album, AMUSED TO DEATH. In pursuit of reimagining the music with brand new
stereo and 5.1 mixes, James Guthrie captures Roger’s original sonic intentions
in 21st century definition for this new important release.
20 years
after its original unveiling, Amused to Death, provides startling
revelations for today’s internet age, and speaks with more resonance than ever
before. This trenchant masterpiece offers explosive provocations for a 21st
century generation addicted to their screens. The album, compared by critics to
George Orwell’s “1984”, contains an urgent musical interrogation of the West’s
mass media and advertising consumption, now more prevalent than ever. The music
questions the omnipresent media culture which we now live in, which works to
seduce us into apathetic oblivion in front of our flat screens, whilst the
horrors of the world rumble on. This extraordinary album challenges our
relationship to mass media and conjures an image of today’s population amusing
themselves to death.
The new mixes, along with
additional never before released content and
brand new graphics, will be included in the 2014 reissue releases from Columbia/Legacy
Recordings and Acoustic Sounds.
James
Guthrie will preview samples of these newly mastered stereo and 5.1 tracks at Pink
Floyd: Sound, Sight, and Structure, the Pink Floyd interdisciplinary
conference hosted at Princeton University on April 12, 2014.
Amused
to Death
originally released in 1992 is a comparable aesthetic and cultural milestone to
The Dark Side of The Moon and The Wall. The album is regarded by
Waters’ aficionados as a bona fide masterpiece, combining the artist’s
cutting edge social analysis with a spare yet forceful tone, and some of the
most penetrating riffs he has ever written.
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