Hopefully, that’s one of the benefits of this remix!” Again, that positive tidal wave of technology just might have provided too many digital opportunities to overwhelm the band feel. “It was also nice to have an opportunity to enhance some of Rick’s work. Momentary Lapse had been recorded under considerable stress and time constraints, and indeed some of the final mixing was done at the same time as rehearsals for the forthcoming tour. “I enjoyed re-recording drum tracks with unlimited studio time. I knew that we were on a good roll and that this thing was going to work.” They just flowed out from nowhere in one of those great serendipitous moments that you recognize later as having been very valuable…. One day, I felt this ‘thing’ coming on me that became Sorrow. We started working on pieces of music that I had been writing and, come Christmas, we knew it was going well. I learnt a lot from Bob and he’s a valuable person to have on board. Reflecting on originally recording the album, Gilmour recalls: “Bob Ezrin had worked on The Wall with us back in ’79 and on some solo albums with me. We also looked for and found some previously unused keyboard parts of Rick’s which helped us to come up with a new vibe, a new feeling for the album.” This was something we thought it would benefit from.
Says David Gilmour: “Some years after we had recorded the album, we came to the conclusion that we should update it to make it more timeless, featuring more of the traditional instruments that we liked and that we were more used to playing. Producers David Gilmour and Bob Ezrin returned some of Richard Wright‘s original keyboard takes and re-recorded new drum tracks with Nick Mason. The release of The Later Years project in 2019 gave an opportunity for a fresh overview of A Momentary Lapse Of Reason.