David Gilmour - Between Two Points (with Romany Gilmour)

The video for ‘Between Two Points’ was shot on location in London and Manchester, with David on
guitars and featuring Romany Gilmour on vocals and harp. Gavin Elder who directed the clip said:
“Romany performs this song with an extraordinary level of fragility, vulnerability and understated
control. There’s a subtle, yet deep emotional rapport between David and Romany, captured with hand held cameras, enhancing the tension within the video.”

Directed by Gavin Elder

*ABOUT LUCK AND STRANGE*
‘Luck and Strange’ was recorded over five months in Brighton and London and is Gilmour’s first album of new material in nine years. The record was produced by David and Charlie Andrew, best known for his work with ALT-J and Marika Hackman. Of this new working relationship, David says, “We invited Charlie to the house, so he came and listened to some demos, and said things like, “Well, why does there have to be a guitar solo there?” and “Do they all fade out? Can’t some of them just end?”. He has a wonderful lack of knowledge or respect for this past of mine. He’s very direct and not in any way overawed, and I love that. That is just so good for me because the last thing you want is people just deferring to you.”

The majority of the album’s lyrics have been composed by Polly Samson, Gilmour’s co-writer and collaborator for the past thirty years. Samson says of the lyrical themes covered on ‘Luck and Strange’, “It’s written from the point of view of being older; mortality is the constant.” Gilmour elaborates, “We spent a load of time during and after lockdown talking about and thinking about those kind of things.” Polly has also found the experience of working with Charlie Andrew liberating, “He wants to know what the songs are about, he wants everyone who’s playing on them to have the ideas that are in the lyric informing their playing. I have particularly loved it for that reason.”

The album features eight new tracks along with a beautiful reworking of The Montgolfier Brothers’ ‘Between Two Points’ and has artwork and photography by the renowned artist Anton Corbijn.

Musicians contributing to the record include Guy Pratt & Tom Herbert on bass, Adam Betts, Steve Gadd and Steve DiStanislao on drums, Rob Gentry & Roger Eno on keyboards with string and choral arrangements by Will Gardner. The title track also features the late Pink Floyd keyboard player Richard Wright, recorded in 2007 at a jam in a barn at David’s house.

Some contributions emerged from the live streams that Gilmour and family performed to a global audience during the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021; Romany Gilmour sings, plays the harp and appears on lead vocals on ‘Between Two Points’. Gabriel Gilmour also sings backing vocals.

The album’s cover image, photographed and designed by Anton Corbijn, is inspired by a lyric written by Charlie Gilmour for the album’s final song ‘Scattered’. Of working with his family on ‘Luck and Strange’, David says, “Polly and I have been writing together for over thirty years and the Von Trapped live streams showed the great blend of Romany’s voice and harp-playing and that led us into a feeling of discarding some of the past that I’d felt bound to and that I could throw those rules out and do whatever I felt like doing, and that has been such a joy.”

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*ABOUT DAVID GILMOUR*

A Cambridge friend of Syd Barrett, David joined Syd, with Roger Waters, Richard Wright, and Nick Mason, in Pink Floyd in early 1968, only for Syd to leave the group five gigs later. Pink Floyd's subsequent huge worldwide success continued after Roger Waters' departure in 1985, with the albums A Momentary Lapse Of Reason and The Division Bell both charting at No. 1 in the UK and the US, and sell-out world tours. Rattle That Lock released in 2015 and David’s 4th solo album, went to No. 1 in 13 countries. In 2017, Live at Pompeii released as a live album and film which was recorded at the Amphitheatre of Pompeii.

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[dawsvnn]

I am 91 and close to death...the Sound of Gilmour will haunt me beyond the grave...with each note my breaths grow shorter...sincerly, a 91 years old hippie from Pasadena

[pmdun]

Romany. Not only do you have a great voice, you also have the coolest Dad ever.

[ucumar]

David Gilmour is a musician who knew how to grow old. Here he appears in the background, letting his daughter shine with her beautyfull voice. But when his guitar comes in, the song takes on another dimension. I admire this guy.

[RobertoHernandez-duyp]

Daughter and Father. Is there anything more beautiful than this? Thank you Gilmour´s family.

[bcc]

34 years hearing this guitar.... The best in the world

[ArchieDuke.]

Well done Dad for giving your girl the opportunity to shine.

[RichCow-xebz]

Aww that guitar solo is so floyd, absolutely sublime

[andrewseeberXI]

They need to do an entire album with Gilmour on guitar and his daughter on vocals.

[danielcarlson]

Wow, Romany needs her own album. These vocals are beautiful.

[NsixVHF]

Gilmour is a freaking musical genius. So glad to have been living in the same time as him on this planet.

[jozefj.]

If someone had told me that David Gilmour would release a new song with someone else singing instead of him, I would've thought it could never work. But here we are, with Romany's absolutely stunning voice, and it's such a perfect fit that I find myself wishing there was an entire album where Romany takes the lead and David plays his guitar, letting her brilliance shine. Her talent is truly incredible!

[hecdc]

Wow, father and daughter making wonderful music together.

[XStreamBerlin]

I’m 103 years old and still listening, pure magic

[crowmedicine]

The faces of young and old and of time passing. Beautiful!

[Rocky_Hawks]

I never knew I needed a romany gilmour solo album until now

[samuelsantiago]

I’m sitting on my deck, drinking my glass of wine listening to this songs with tears in my eyes. David’s playing has a way of touching my soul. So happy to see his daughter preforming with him.

[sadfrewrewfadsfg]

It brings me tears to see how the spark of David Gilmour lives on in his daughter Romany. She sings beautiful.

[orangefiltersky]

This is the most beautiful new song I have heard this year so far. At the age of 56 I am only moved by real emotions and this song is full of those. You can almost grasp that in every second. What a lovely collaboration.

[sottozen]

Gilmour's sound... I have been listening to it for 40 years!

[matambale]

Still better than discovering your own natural talent, is hearing it from your own daughter. Congratulations, poppa.