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As part of his current world tour, Roger Waters, founder and guiding spirit
behind the tremendous creativity of Pink Floyd, will perform a single concert
at a new venue in the valley below the Latroun Monastery next
to Neve Shalom / Wahat al-Salam – to be created especially for his appearance.
Included in the program will be the powerful “The Dark Side of the Moon”
performed in its entirety.
Some 35,000 tickets have already been sold for this performance.
A map of the new site will be published in the near future,
along with parking and transportation arrangements, a map of the VIP areas, etc.
Producers in Israel are Shuki Weiss and Muli Shesh.
Waters will perform a three-hour concert in Israel.
The opening third will include the best of his renowned repertoire,
including a comprehensive survey of the early years of Pink Floyd.
Among other things, Waters will perform hits from the timeless albums “Animals,”
“The Wall,” “Wish You Were Here,” and material from his solo career.
After that, Waters and his group will perform a new, complete version of the magnificent
“The Dark Side of the Moon,” one of the iconic, formative works in the history
of rock music worldwide. Only 41 minutes in its original form,
the piece has been specially revised by Waters. The complete version of this new,
longer arrangement with a contemporary sound will be performed at
Neve Shalom / Wahat al-Salam, backed up by additional technical effects
on the specially-constructed stage, with giant screens, animation,
and quadraphonic sound and light media.
Fans will remember that “The Dark Side of the Moon” first appeared in 1973,
creating a new standard of excellence as a concept album with its unique mix
of innovative rock, philosophical content, and an exploration of new audio boundaries.
Brilliantly arranged by Waters, this work delves into the riddle of human existence
in a technocratic world.
The songs encompass themes of sadness, pessimism, alienation, cynicism, and madness.
The meaning of money in a world of capitalist consumption;
the quest for self-determination; insanity;
and war – it’s all there on this album – a conceptual, avant-garde, almost theatrical work.
“The Dark Side of the Moon” achieved unprecedented artistic and commercial success
and became one of the best-selling albums of all time worldwide.
It remained a “Billboard” top-selling album for a record 15 years (741 weeks).
As recently as 2004, the album was still selling 8,000 copies a week.
An estimated one out of every 14 Americans under the age of
50 is the proud owner of a copy of this album.
In 1979, Waters wrote the partly autobiographical album,
“The Wall” – and the title track immediately became an international
hymn for the younger generation. The group’s concerts turned into complicated
mass events employing sophisticated lighting constructions, animated films,
destruction of objects, falling walls, etc. After “The Wall,”
the group’s members decided to devote time to individual projects and solo albums.
“The Final Cut” (1983) rounded out their work as a group.
In 1990, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Waters presided over one
of the largest and most significant rock events of all time – a one-time performance,
with guest artists, of “The Wall” in the place where the
wall had stood only months beforehand.
Waters’ first solo album, “The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking” (1984)
was a solid commercial success, and the next, “Radio K.A.O.S” in 1987,
added another notch to his solo career and brought him back to the concert stage.
His last solo album, “Amused to Death,” ironic and downbeat, which he released in 1992,
was widely considered on a par with “The Dark Side of the Moon” and “The Wall.”
In 2000, a DVD and double album “In The Flesh” documented Waters’ first live tour
in 12 years in the USA, during which he performed top Pink Floyd hits.
Not long ago, after laboring for more than twenty years,
Waters issued a double album with his opera “Ca Ira,”
set in France during the revolutionary era.
Tickets at Kastel, Kla’im and the other ticket agencies; price: NIS 375.
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