Artist: DAVID GILMOUR
Album: DAVID GILMOUR REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1978/ 2005
EAN/UPS: 0094637084328
Media type: CD

David Gilmour is the eponymous first solo album from Pink Floyd guitarist and vocalist David Gilmour, released in May 1978 (see 1978 in music) in the UK and on June 17, 1978 in the US. The album reached #17 in the UK and #29 on the Billboard US album charts and was certified Gold in the US by the RIAA. The album was produced by Gilmour himself, and consists mostly of bluesy, guitar-oriented rock songs except for the ballad So Far Away.

The album was recorded at Super Bear Studios in France between December of 1977 and early January of 1978 with engineer John Etchells. Then the album was mixed at the same studio in March of 1978 by Nick Griffiths. The cover was done by Hipgnosis and Gilmour.

The album's only single was "There's No Way Out Of Here" which flopped in Europe but did well on American rock stations. The song was originally recorded by the band Unicorn (which Gilmour produced) in 1976 as No Way Out of Here for their album Too Many Crooks

The album is a Joker's Wild reunion of sorts, with Rick Wills and Willie Wilson joining Gilmour for the recording of the album.

One of the tunes he wrote at the time, but did not use, evolved into the Pink Floyd classic "Comfortably Numb". The instrumental song "Raise My Rent" includes bits that would later be resurrected in the Pink Floyd songs "What Do You Want From Me" and "Keep Talking".

A slightly different version of the song, "Short and Sweet", can also be found on Roy Harper's 1980 album, The Unknown Soldier.

David Gilmour was re-released by EMI Records in Europe as a digital remaster on August 14, 2006. Legacy Recordings/Columbia Records released the remastered CD in the US and Canada on September 12, 2006.

TRACKLIST:

01 "Mihalis" – 5:46 (original album); 6:00 (2006 remaster)
02 "There's No Way Out of Here" (Ken Baker) – 5:08 (original album); 5:24 (2006 remaster)
03 "Cry From the Street" (David Gilmour/Eric Stuart) – 5:13 (original album); 5:18 (2006 remaster)
04 "So Far Away" – 6:04 (original album); 6:12 (2006 remaster)
05 "Short and Sweet" (David Gilmour/Roy Harper) – 5:30 (original album); 5:33 (2006 remaster)
06 "Raise My Rent" – 5:33 (original album); 5:49 (2006 remaster)
07 "No Way" – 5:32 (original album); 6:14 (2006 remaster)
08 "Deafinitely" – 4:27 (original album); 4:29 (2006 remaster)
09 "I Can't Breathe Anymore" – 3:04 (original album); 3:40 (2006 remaster)

CREDITS:

David Gilmour - Guitars, Vocals, Keyboards, Lap Steel Guitar on "No Way" and "I Can't Breathe Anymore", Producer, cover design
Rick Wills - Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
Willie Wilson - Drums and Percussion
Mick Weaver - Additional piano on So Far Away
Carlena Williams - Backing vocals on "There's No Way Out of Here" and "So Far Away"
Debbie Doss - Backing vocals on "There's No Way Out of Here" and "So Far Away"

Hipgnosis - Cover Design, Photography
Sanghbook Nam - Remastering
Doug Sax - Remastering