RICHARD WRIGHT - 1943-2008

It is with much sadness that we bring you the news that Richard Wright passed away today (September 15th), after a short struggle with cancer. It goes without saying that he will be greatly missed.

Tributes to Richard have been arriving here from around the world, as news reaches fans. He was much loved, and respected, and the shock and sadness within the Pink Floyd community at his sudden passing will reverberate for some time. It has been very difficult to come up with appropriate words to recognise Richard and the huge part of our lives he became. A very sad day...

We know that you will join with us in offering our deepest condolences to his family and friends.

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Rapid eye movement

This is the latest Riverside Album.
Here is the lyrics of third track

Riverside - 02 Panic Room

Used to be my Panic Room
The other side of me
Where I slept and woke by turns
And nothing seemed real

I was feeding on your life
Peering through the hole
And it scared me out
Someday
You would knock on my door

Sweet shelter of mine
I'm freezing without
Sweet shelter of mine
I'm dying without

Cover up my twisted thoughts
Shattered all around
Muffled sounds
Recurring dreams
Melatonin smile

Used to be my 302
The other side of light
Trap of my own
That helped me deal
With what I lost inside

Sweet shelter of mine
I'm freezing without
Sweet shelter of mine
I'm dying without
Sweet shelter of mine

***

I've tried to make self-portraits before
But they always turn out so contrived
I've spent too much time
Correcting light and shade
Hiding wrinkles
Blurring scars

I've tried to make self-portraits before
Through my eyes
Just see myself
Now I know
I'm not in denial
That I need someone else
To see me

Respect

I also attended "the dark side of the moon" tour by Roger Waters in Dubai. I was like most the Iranian attendants looking forward to hearing a word about Iranians from Roger. Instead we hear some good phrases about Arabs before "Leaving Beirut".

The day before I was listening to "Me or him" from "Radio K.A.O.S." and I noticed at the end of track a sentence in the back ground. The man says: "Do you really think Iranian terrorist would have taken Americans hostage if Ronald Reagan was president?"

I know lots of foreigners and home citizens. I respect them for their role in human society. It is thoroughly a personal and individual respect and I hope there is such respect mutually. But from a nation point of view I saw no signs of respect between the two countries.

Any way I have no clue if Roger calls America home or not.

Voices in my head

This is an album from a Polish rock band called Riverside. After some years of listening to different music now I can say I like another band and that’s Riverside. I heard another album from this band called Second life syndrome. It is another good album but I am fond of writing about Voices in my head.
This album consists of 8 tracks. The last 3 tracks are live performances. I think of them as just some filer tracks to make the time of album in the standard value for releasing; although this cause do not effect the tracks in any way. Each track has a unique feeling for me. It is hard for me to express my feelings- and that is why I did not write about The Dark Side of the Moon Live- but I quote a few statements about each track below:

1. Us: freezing the joy of being together in your mind
2. acronym Love: Eating pills to sleep but the dreams will disturb you more
3. Dna Ts. Rednum Or F. Raf: I can't understand the title but I like the music very much. It is just like the times I go to bed and everything -happened or will happen- attack to my mind and I try to escape from them.
4. The Time I was daydreaming: regret from the result of challenge between telling the truth and face the reality or just pretend everything and try to keep the situation as is.
5. Stuck Between: it is begun in a style very similar to Aviv Geffen but what a pity it is more electronic than progressive.

Some feelings need music to be expressed

Time

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine
Staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long
And there is time to kill today
And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun

And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter
Never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to nought
Or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone
The song is over
Thought I'd something more to say

Live!

Thanks to all my virtual friends in internet society; after 10 days with no real music around, I listened to a live acoustic performance of Steven Wilson in Tel Aviv.

After Listening to almost a lot of studio recorded albums, I enjoyed very much this live performance with different mood and strange performance, full of fun and improvising and engaging audience. I can not guess the atmosphere of the place but the performance just reminds me of those friendly parties we had at our 20s.

In my opinion the interesting thing is that you can hear a dozen of porcupine tree songs just in pure rhythms with the lyrics. I almost drowned in the whole coloring of songs music and each individual instrument –if I can- that I forgot the lyrics. Sometime Steven mentions some point about songs and other stuffs like using fifteen guitars in blackest eyes. It is awesome particularly when you hear "Feel So Low" with Aviv Geffen performing a part in Hebrew-I guess.

Anyway there are a couple of songs Steven says he needs a piano to do them. We wait for a piano acoustic performance.

One more thing, I can't get what he says at the end of each song, if any body knows, I will be much appreciated to know that.

Love taught me to lie

...

Stones taught me to fly
Love taught me to lie
Life taught me to die
So it's not hard to fall
When you float like a cannon

Stones taught me to fly
Love taught me to cry
So come on courage!
Teach me to be shy
'Cause it's not hard to fall
And I don't want to scare her
It's not hard to fall
And I don't wanna lose
It's not hard to grow
When you know that you just don't know

At last I found some time for listening music, O by Damien Rice. I listened to a bunch of Irish singers and song writers but Damien has got a beautiful voice and emotional songs.
He uses guitars and cello mostly in his songs-I like cello very much. The songs may be folk but you may hear jazz or pop or even rock but I like the simplicity of music with those two instruments and little use of drums or percussion.
It is emotional and lovely. I like to listen it when I am alone but if you like it can make a good background music when you work too.

Blackfield II

After five years, Wilson and Geffen managed to record another studio album. The first Blackfield album consisted of 10 tracks. On year 2004, they published their first album again with three bonus tracks, one of them "Where is my love?" is now reappeared in the new album, Blackfield II. This new album is also consisted of 10 tracks.

• Track listing:
1. Once
2. 1,000 People
3. Miss U
4. Christenings
5. This Killer
6. Epidemic
7. My Gift of Silence
8. Some Day
9. Where is My Love?
10. End of the World

From the music aspect, it's the same kind of sound and quality as the first album and more piano than usual. I really like a lot of this album (mostly Epidemic, My Gift of Silence and End of the World).

From the lyrics aspect, it reminds me of the No-Man's 'Together We're Stranger' album. All the lyrics Core is love and its consequences (happiness, joy, sad, jealousy, anger and void).

Minimalism

Minimalism is simply defined as:

"A style of art in which the least possible amount of form shapes, colors, or lines are used to reduce the concept or idea to its simplest form"

This style influenced music by the slowing down of musical processes through the repetition-with-variation of short fragments.
In literature that aims at reducing the elements in a text to a bare minimum.
there is a track by "Porcupine tree" in the album "In Absentia (2002)" that bares this kind of minimalism in its lyrics.

Lips Of Ashes

Paralysed
Lips of Ashes
Synchronised
Blue vein crashes

Touching you inside

Idolised
Black Eyes fading
You and I
Connection failing

I drill down inside

Scenes

Scene One: I am watching a video cassette of "The dark side of the moon" with almost good sound and video quality. there is no Waters in the show.I like the work and astonished by the sound and lights and clips showing in background.
Scene Two: I get a cassette, a selection of Pink Floyd tracks. I hear the Time and Money Tracks. I enjoy "Wish you where here".
Scene Three: Now I am listening to "The Wall". My friend talks about Waters and I recognize the odd voice from Gilmore in the tracks. I enjoy the idea of an album as whole piece of art.
Scene Four: I am watching the amazing "The wall Live in Berlin". Waters is a genuine.
Scene Five: Is it really "Amused to Death"? who on earth can compose and perform such a marvelous loving album.
this man is Roger Waters.

BACK WHEN YOU WERE BEAUTIFUL(No-Man)

singing songs
they'll never understand.
tempo drifts
in half-cut wonderlands.

back when you were beautiful,
they'd smile and shake your hand.

friendship comes,
but it mostly goes.
you mark the time
with your fading clothes.

back when you were beautiful,
you'd pass it off as pose.

you walk for hours,
your feet like lead.
you keep your secrets
locked inside your heads.

back when you were beautiful,
the needle pushed the red.

Feel so low

I don't Know why I like this song and its lyrics very much. Although the industry catagorized it as alt-rock but to me its very far beyond rock. If you had not heard it, you would have no idea of my saying so.

I can not add the song here but this is the lyrics

Feel so low
So see how long I can last
You can pretend that I don't exist for you
And I can laugh about it now
But I hated every minute
I was waiting for your email
And each day that you forgot to call
Just made me feel so low
So low
Christmas 1998
I tried to call
I just couldn't wait
And your message was out of date
So I left my voice on your machine
But you did not respond
OK OK OK you've won
You make me feel so low
So low
[Written by Steven Wilson]

The Wall

Pink Floyd music is very distingueshed. Thier music influenced many new bands and singers. Mostley known musicains covered thier well known songs recently. Leaving Waters was a turn back for the group but thier individual music talent make thier music live for ever.

when I listen to the The Wall album, I found new verses full of emotion and philosophy in it. if you have time and being in the mood , don't miss the listening.