Pink Floyd Discography
Momentary Lapse of Reason
TRACKS
Signs of Life (Gilmour, Ezrin) [04:24] Vocals by Gilmour.
Learning to Fly (Gilmour, Moore, Ezrin, Carin) [04:52] Vocals by
Gilmour.
The Dogs of War (Gilmour, Moore) [06:05] Vocals by Gilmour.
One Slip (Gilmour, Manzanera) [05:07] Vocals by Gilmour.
On The Turning Away (Gilmour, Moore) [05:39] Vocals by Gilmour.
a. Yet Another Movie (Gilmour, Leonard) [below] Vocals by Gilmour.
b. Round and Around (Gilmour) [07:25] Instrumental.
A New Machine part.1 (Gilmour) [01:46] Vocals by Gilmour.
Terminal Frost (Gilmour) [06:17] Instrumental.
A New Machine part.2 (Gilmour) [00:36] Vocals by Gilmour.
Sorrow (Gilmour) [08:46] Vocals by Gilmour and Wright
Total Playing Time: 50:57
Produced by: Bob Ezrin & David Gilmour
MAIN ARTISTS
David Gilmour- Guitars, Vocals, Keyboards & Sequencers
Nick Mason- Electric & Acoustic Drums, Sound Effects
Richard Wright- Piano, Vocals, Kurzwell, Hammond Organ
Supporting Artists/Managers
Bob Ezrin- Keyboards, Percussion & Sequencers
Tony Levin- Bass Guitar, Stick
Jim Keltner- Drums
Steve Forman- Percussion
Jon Carin- Keyboards
Tom Scott- Alto & Soprano Saxophone
Scott Page- Tenor Saxophone
Carmine Appice- Drums
Pat Leonard- Synthesizers
Bill Payne- Hammond Organ
Michael Landau- Guitar
John Halliwell- Saxophone
Darlene Koldenhaven- Backing Vocals
Carmen Twillie- Backing Vocals
Phyllis St. James- Backing Vocals
Donnie Gerrard- Backing Vocals
Recording and mixing engineered by- Andrew Jackson
Assisted by- Robert (Ringo) Hrycyna
with- Marc Desisto, Stan Katayama, Jeff Demorris.
Additional Re-mixing- James Guthrie
Special thanks to -
- Anthony Moore,
- Phil Manzanera,
- Langley Iddens,
- Tim Daly & Mike Wennink
Studios-
- Astoria, Hampton
- Britannia Row Studios, London
- A& M Studios, Los Angeles
- Can Am Studios, Los Angeles
- Village Recorder, Los Angeles
- Mayfair, London
- Audio International, London
Also thanks to Winston Johnson at Cama,
Gary Barlogh at Producers Workshop, Air London
Art Direction- Storm Theorizers
Front Cover Concept- Storm Thorgerson and Nexus
Graphic Design- Andrew Ellis, Icon, London
Photography- Robert Dowling
Production- Lance Williams, Richard Shaw
Portrait- David Bailey
Additional Photography- Robert Mort
Artwork- Mekon
Spherical Sound by- Tom Jones, Ken Caillats, Sarah Bruce
Recorded by- Guy Charbonneau, Le Mobile, Los Angeles
Additional Sound Effects by- Andrew Jackson
General Technical & Musical Instruments Supervision- Phil Taylor
Mastered at- Mastering Lab & Precision Lacquer
Management- Steve O'Rourke, EMKA Productions, London
INFO
Release date: September 8th, 1987
"A Momentary Lapse of Reason" is yet another solo album. This time Rick
Wright and Nick Mason were so distrought from the quarrels with
Roger that their musical abilities were almost null. Dave Gilmour was
almost of his own with little help from the rest of the bad. He had
some major help from Bob Erzin the producer from The Wall.
This Album is very different in respects to old school Pink Floyd. You
can see the change in this album that would inspire the "Division Bell"
at least in my opinion. It lays the ground work for the new era
of Pink Floyd after Roger Waters leaves and the band re-coupes from
long term fame and also creative and political disputes.
QUOTES
David Gilmour: "Both Nick and Rick were catatonic in terms of their
playing ability at the beginning. Neither of them played on this at all
really. In my view, they'd been destroyed by Roger. Nick played a
few tom-toms on one track, but for the rest I had to get in other
drummers. Rick played some tiny little parts. For a lot of it, I played
the keyboards and pretended it was him. The record was
basically made by me, and other people and God knows what. I didn't
think it was the best Pink Floyd album ever made, but I gave it the
best damn shot I could."
Nick Mason: "Dave was under a lot of pressure to come up with songs and
he looked for help where he could find it. It was fun recording on
the boat (Gilmour's floating studio at Hampton-on-Thames) but then
we went to America and hired all these sessions musicians who could
knock things off quickly. At the time it seemed like a reasonable route
to go but that was quite alarming for me."
Rick Wright: "I wasn't a member of the band. By now they didn't know
me. We hadn't played together for years. I was paid a wage on the
sessions. I did get royalties on the album. Not as many as Dave and
Nick though."
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