New Pink Floyd Album...?

According to the Polish newspaper, Rzeczpospolita, David Gilmour has been working on some tunes:

"Zbigniew Preisner was aked to co-produce and to do orchestral arrangements on David Gilmour's new solo album. Leszek Mozdzer is involved too. Preisner said that they had already recorded some music in Gilmour's own studio in London.

"Probably it will be David's solo album, but it is not out of the question that it could be a new Pink Floyd album. They will be deciding together later - Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright" said Preisner.

"It was so amazing to meet this great master. It's a great honour to share a table with Gilmour, not to mention working with him in the studio" said Mozdzer. Another Polish engineer, Rafal Paczkowski, will be involved in orchestral session recording for the project.

So perhaps there will be another Pink Floyd album before the world ends in 2012 or everyone receives total consciousness or whatever the fuck Newage people think this date signifies on the Mayan calendar. I think seeing the Floyd at Camp Randall in 1994 was the last time I saw a concert there. Personally, I prefer A Momentary Lapse of Reason over The Division Bell but that's me. MLoR just sounded less like Dark Side of the Moon, less like the Waters-led Floyd. It had just enough of the classic Floyd sound for me to take comfort in the familiar but it was different too. Different enough to be interesting and a satisfying listening experience. Plus the cover was really cool. A new Floyd album would probably be pretty blah. Personally, I'm more keen on hearing a new Roger Waters album. I think Amused to Death is a great album. While he may not be particularly relevant to today's music scene, he sure stays current. Check out the tunes up at his webpage. He pulls no punches. "To Kill the Child" features the names of many a corporation while "Leaving Beirut" has the first name of a certain president in it. Musically, he's treading old ground but, lyrically, he's completely in touch with the present.