A Reside Studio Cowl of Pink Floyd’s The Darkish Aspect of the Moon, Performed from Begin to End

Pink Floyd’s Darkish Aspect of the Moon is such a murals that to separate it up into 9 tracks—like clas­sic rock radio has accomplished for years—at all times sounds non­sen­si­cal. How will you simply finish “Breathe” on that closing chord and never fol­low it with the ana­log drones of “On the Run”? How will you play “Mind Dam­age” and never finish with “Eclipse”? And the way dare you fade the lengthy coda of “Mon­ey” and segue right into a automobile com­mer­cial?

You may’t, ethical­ly converse­ing, I’m telling you.

In order that’s why I just like the reduce of the jib of the Mar­tin Miller Ses­sion Band, who com­mit to cov­er­ing all the­ty of Darkish Aspect of the Moon on this one lengthy stu­dio per­for­mance. Accord­ing to Miller’s Patre­on web page, that is the one full album they’ve cov­ered to this point, and so they pull by means of admirably.

And the factor that’s refresh­ing right here is that the band cov­ers the album up to a degree, however not slav­ish­ly. It’s not the Flam­ing Lips’ decon­struc­tion or the sur­pris­ing­ly nonetheless lis­ten­ready 8‑Bit ver­sion, however nei­ther is it the sort of trib­ute band like Brit Floyd (beneath). When Miller solos, he’s not aping David Gilmour. The important thing­boardist Mar­ius Leicht has his personal knobs to twid­dle, so to talk. And drum­mer Felix Lehrmann will nev­er ever be con­fused for Nick Mason. (In reality, he will get lots of grief within the com­ments for being too flash, however if you watch Miller’s oth­er movies and see him giv­ing Stew­artwork Copeland a run for his mon­ey on their Police med­ley, you see the place he’s com­ing from.)

Know­ing what you’re in for, ques­tions come up: are they going to incorporate the var­i­ous spo­ken sam­ples sprin­kled by means of­out (“I don’t know I used to be actual­ly drunk on the time,” “There isn’t a darkish aspect of the moon actual­ly…”). Reply: sure certainly, and enjoyable­ny they’re too. Does a sax­o­phon­ist flip up for “Mon­ey” and “Us and Them”? Reply: Sure, and it’s Michal Skul­s­ki. Who can pos­si­bly match Clare Torry’s pipes on “The Nice Gig within the Sky”? Jen­ny Marsala does, thanks very a lot.

So I might set­tle in and attempt to unlearn your mem­o­ry of each notice and beat on the 1973 clas­sic. By doing so, you’ll hear the album anew.

And after that, if you happen to’re nonetheless han­ker­ing for that “even guess­ter than the actual factor” vibe, get pleasure from this full con­cert, cir­cu­lar professional­jec­tion display screen and all, by the afore­males­tioned Brit Floyd, play­ing Liv­er­pool in 2011.

Notice: An ear­li­er ver­sion of this put up appeared on our web site in 2020.

Relat­ed Con­tent:

The Darkish Aspect of the Moon Mission: Watch an 8‑Half Video Essay on Pink Floyd’s Clas­sic Album

Clare Torry’s Uncommon Reside Per­for­mances of “Nice Gig within the Sky” with Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd Movies a Con­cert in an Emp­ty Audi­to­ri­um, Nonetheless Attempt­ing to Break Into the U.S. Charts (1970)

Bea­t­les Trib­ute Band “The Fab Fake” Per­types Reside an Amaz­ing­ly Actual Repli­ca of the Orig­i­nal Abbey Highway Med­ley

A Deep, Monitor-by-Monitor Analy­sis of The Darkish Aspect of the Moon, Pink Floyd’s Musi­cal Jour­ney Via the Stress­es & Anx­i­eties of Mod­ern Exis­tence

Pink Floyd Performs in Venice on a Mas­sive Float­ing Stage in 1989; Forces the Might­or & Metropolis Coun­cil to Resign

Ted Mills is a free­lance author on the humanities.