"A New Machine" | |
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Song by Pink Floyd | |
from the album A Momentary Lapse of Reason | |
Published | Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd |
Released | 7 September 1987 (UK) 8 September 1987 (US) |
Recorded | November 1986 –August 1987 |
Genre | Progressive rock |
Length | 2:24together 1:46 Part 1 0:38 Part 2 |
Label | EMI (UK) Columbia (US) |
Songwriter(s) | David Gilmour |
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"A New Machine (Part 1)" on YouTube | |
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"A New Machine (Part 2)" on YouTube |
"A New Machine",parts 1 and 2 are songs from Pink Floyd's 1987 album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason . [1] [2]
They serve as bookends to the instrumental track "Terminal Frost",and feature David Gilmour's voice,electrically distorted,through a vocoder and a rising synth note. The narrator seems to express weariness with a lifetime spent in one body,waiting for the moment of death,but seeks consolation in the fact that this "waiting" will eventually end.
"A New Machine has a sound I've never heard anyone do. The noise gates, the Vocoders, opened up something new which to me seemed like a wonderful sound effect that no one had done before; it's innovation of a sort."
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