Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour talks about upcoming new solo album

David Gilmour

Pink Floyd guitarist and singer David Gilmour said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine that he will release a new solo album on 2022 or 2023. The musician explained the composition during the lockdown periodo due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour talks about upcoming new solo album:

“I’m hoping that I will have an album ready in the next year or two; I’m not that fast. One of the problems, of course, is this lockdown thing. We are now both double vaccinated, so things are looking a little bit brighter. But getting other people in to listen, to help, and to play on things has been kind of impossible in the last year. I do look forward to actually playing some songs with a bunch of actual musicians at some point.”

I assume you haven’t been working strictly acoustically — in the vein of “Yes, I Have Ghosts” — but has lockdown made you think differently about how you write?

Polly Samson (Wife): Guitar and harp is your next album [laughs].

Gilmour: “I think there’ll be more harp. And the tricky bit will be how to tie all the various disparate sounds together into a homogenous whole.”
Samson:”It’d be a shame to never play electric guitar again.”
Gilmour: “I will play electric guitar again. But the electric guitar I’m currently playing is just not quite as “rock god” as one might expect.”
Samson: “See, you shouldn’t have sold them, should you? [Laughs.]”
Gilmour: “I’ve got plenty of lovely guitars left.”

Do you want to tour again?

“I haven’t given that a moment’s thought yet, but we had a lovely time on the last tour we did. I played South America for the first time. It was very gratifying and lovely. At this very moment, playing to a group of 10,000 people, tightly packed together in an arena, is a nightmare, so I wouldn’t want to do that. So we’ve got to let a little time pass.”

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