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David Gilmour - On an Island Audio CD

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David Gilmour Band: David Gilmour
Title: On an Island
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Release Date: 2006-03-07
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Castellorizon 2: On An Island 3: The Blue 4: Take A Breath 5: Red Sky At Night 6: This Heaven 7: Then I Close My Eyes 8: Smile 9: A Pocketful of Stones 10: Where We Start

On An Island
I think this LP, yes I have the vinyl version. . is better than a lot of Pink Floyd Albums and his best solo project to date. I highly recommend this album. To really get the feel of this album I suggest watching or purchasing DVD Live At Royal Albert Hall. It enhanced my appreciation and feel for this release by David Gilmour. I like his guitar style on this album and watching live (even though on DVD and not in person) makes you appreciate musicians like David Gilmour who are few and far between these days. True Guitar heros are truely rare and too bad we will not see a David Gilmour LIVE performance in the US anymore and/or it is highly unlikely. Great Album David Gilmour.


Please shut it and let your guitar speak, Mr. Gilmour
Few axemen in Rock have the rich, bluesy, and exquisite tone of Gilmour. Let's 'about' face it, David Gilmour's strong suit as a musician and composer is wholly around his neck. And unlike so many, he also knows when *not* to play notes in a given song; this sort of musical self-awareness in Rock is very rare in my humble opinion.

Unfortunately, lyrics have never been Gilmour's strong suit---and his wife Polly simply isn't a great lyricist either. At best the lyrics here are pusillanimously pleasant if forgettable, at worst they are simply bad poetry---trite and occasionally cringe worthy.

My suggestion to Mr. Gilmour is that he return to his roots a bit (give a listen to the opening bars of Wish You Were Here again, for example) and for his next effort, lay down a completely stripped-down instrumental blues-based prog-rock fusion album. It's through the Strat that he best expresses himself. Gilmour could evoke killer tone from playing "She'll Be Comin' 'Round The Mountain" on a Mickey Mouse guitar, for god's sake---his playing is so soulful and rarefied that lyrics usually just get in the way.

Plug in, toss the lyrics sheet, and let your guitar speak for you, Mr. Gilmour. .


The closest thing we'll get to a new Pink Floyd album.
But don't fret, because David Gilmour's latest solo release, On An Island, will certainly quench the thirst for Pink Floyd fans old and new. Due to the untimely death of Richard Wright, there is next to no chance that there will a Pink Floyd reunion anytime soon.

The trademarks are all there: The reflective and emotional mood, breathy sound effects, special effects seguing into another track, and of course, the voice and powerful guitar solos of David Gilmour. But there are some tricks on this album that are anything but Floyd, such as the R&B flavored "This Heaven," which is the jazziest thing Gilmour's ever created.

The album's first half is some of Gilmour's best work. The title track contains gorgeous harmonies by 2/3 of CS&N, The Blue feels like a dream, Take A Breath is reminiscent of The Wall-era Floyd, and tracks such as Red Sky At Night (with Gilmour on sax) and Then I Close My Eyes shows David in experimental mode, not afraid to change his personal style or his music.

Unfortuantly, the last few songs fall flat. Smile is a little on the campy side, and A Pocketful Of Stones is incredibly dull, something you would hear on a later-era Moody Blues album. Where We Start picks up steam near the end, but one would feel that if he ditched the last 3 songs and wrote some stronger material with, say, Richard Wright, it would be a much more satisfying album.

All complaints aside, On An Island is a very good album by a man who really doesn't need to prove himself anymore, and that's saying something. Reccomended for fans of The Division Bell, or any Floyd albums after Dark Side.


On an Island
Even so I only find this album to be ok. On an Island being Gilmour's 2006 release and his 3rd studio album and did very well in the charts reaching #1 in the UK albums chart and #6 in the Billboard 200. Compared to other Pink Floyd albums it falls a bit flat. That is not to say that this is a bad album. The cd booklet contains all the lyrics, and a list of whom plays what on every track. 3/5.


David Gilmore
What peeked my interest and my purchase of this album. . . . . I had heard the initial broadcast of David Gilmore on Satalite radio , by a station called " Classic Vinyl " . Where they feature an artist and an album .

This particular station , actually played the entire album . And interviewed David and other band members between plays . Telling about the rhymes and reasons , behind the recording of this particular album . And some of his past experiences with " Pink Floyd " .

I not only enjoyed the music on this album , but the time spent on the interview . . . . also . David Gilmore is a very personable kind of an artist. . . . . ! .


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