Various Artists – More Animals at the Gates of Reason – A Tribute to Pink Floyd (2013)
Offering the Floyd’s songs under a new guise – from the ‘60s until the last “The Division Bell” in 1994 – we find mostly Italian artists (Pandora, Fabio Zuffanti, Conqueror, EgoBand, Archangel, Prowlers, Greenwall & more), from the little-known but solid and florid progressive rock panorama of the peninsula, but there are also a couple of international acts, such as the American Jay Tausig, the Finnish Permanent Clear Light and the supergroup The Samurai of Prog, including Roine Stolt from The Flower Kings and Jon Davison, the current lead singer for Yes.
Another peculiarity of this 2-CD release is the choice of atypical PF songs: the great classics – “Wish You Were Here”, “Another Brick in the Wall”, “Money” , “Comfortably Numb” and many others – were deliberately left out, in favor of lesser-known but equally important tracks, from albums such as “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn”, “A Saucerful of Secrets”, “Animals”, “A Momentary Lapse of Reason” and “The Final Cut”, almost always forgotten in any common-tribute album.
Tracks – Bands:
CD1
01 The Hero’s Return (Parts I and II) – 3chevedonoilrE
02 Chapter 24 -Test Number 2wo
03 Have a Cigar – EgoBand
04 Matilda Mother – VoloPindariQo
05 Paintbox – Pollution
06 Flaming – S.A.D.O.
07 Hey You – Maria Teresa Soldani
08 A Saucerful of Secrets – Atomato
09 Astronomy Domine – Fabio Zuffanti
10 Careful with That Axe, Eugene – Fungus (live edit)
11 Marooned – Pandora
12 Embryo – La Cage
13 Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun – Prowlers
14 Dogs – The Samurai Of Prog
CD2
01 Sheep – Jay Tausig
02 Fearless – The Embryo
03 Breathe – Greenwall
04 The Gunner’s Dream – Archangel
05 Take up thy stethoscope & walk – Spirits Burning
06 Apples and Oranges – Anderson Council
07 High Hopes – Periplo
08 Julia Dream / Is There Anybody Out There – slow@rk
09 The Narrow Way part 3 – Publius Enigma
10 Arnold Layne – The Far Side
11 On The Turning Away – Conqueror
12 Cymbaline – Permanent Clear Light
13 Echoes – Daal
14 Jugband Blues – Nous Dianoia
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Various Artists – More Animals at the Gates of Reason – A Tribute to Pink Floyd (2013)