Killing Joke frontman Jaz Coleman is a person with many strings to his bow – singer, creator, documentarian, composer, conductor, arranger – and his newest journey finds him working with an Swiss orchestra on his association of Pink Floyd‘s The Darkish Facet Of The Moon.
It is acquainted territory for Coleman, who launched Us and Them: Symphonic Pink Floyd in 1995 and Kashmir: Symphonic Led Zeppelin two years later, each recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra. In 1999 he labored with the Prague Symphony Orchestra on the album Riders on the Storm: The Doorways Concerto.
“I’m extremely excited concerning the efficiency of Darkish Facet Of The Moon on the twenty sixth February 2025 by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande,” says Coleman. “As many individuals know, Geneva is a Killing Joke metropolis (we wrote Eighties and far of Night time Time there).
“Once I scored Pink Floyd’s Us And Them again in 1994, it was 70% Darkish Facet and 30% The Wall. For this big day, I’ll current your entire Darkish Facet Of The Moon. I’m grateful to the OSR and Antigel Pageant for arranging this live performance on the day Killing Joke began which simply occurs to be my sixty fifth birthday!”
It will not be Coleman’s first time working with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, which was shaped in 1918 and is predicated on the Victoria Corridor in Geneva, Switzerland. A 12 months in the past he collaborated on a night of Led Zeppelin orchestrations on the Antigel Pageant.
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