The new version of Pink Floyd's seminal 1973 masterpiece is available to purchase on a number of formats including CD, transparent orange vinyl and gold cassette, and there are also a number of bundles available from Roger Waters' official website.
As a taster of the album, Roger Waters has premiered his reinterpretation of the sixth track on 'The Dark Side of the Moon', 'Money.'
Roger Waters explains that he came up with the idea of remaking (arguably) Pink Floyd's magnum opus after he'd completed work on 'The Lockdown Sessions' EP, which reimagines five Pink Floyd classics including 'Comfortably Numb.'
"When we recorded the stripped-down songs for the Lockdown Sessions, the 50th anniversary of the release of Dark Side of The Moon was looming on the horizon," Waters wrote.
"It occurred to me that Dark Side of the Moon could well be a suitable candidate for a similar re-working, partly as a tribute to the original work, but also to re-address the political and emotional message of the whole album. I discussed it with Gus (Seyffert) and Sean (Evans), and when we'd stopped giggling and shouting 'You must be f---ing mad' at one another we decided to take it on."
He continued: "We are now in the process of finishing the final mix. It's turned out really great and I'm excited for everyone to hear it. It's not a replacement for the original which, obviously, is irreplaceable. But it is a way for the seventy-nine-year-old man to look back across the intervening fifty years into the eyes of the twenty-nine-year-old and say, to quote a poem of mine about my Father, "We did our best, we kept his trust, our Dad would have been proud of us"."
Concluding his post, he wrote: "And also it is a way for me to honour a recording that Nick and Rick and Dave and I have every right to be very proud of. Happy 50th to Dark Side of the Moon."
Mason said: "(Roger) actually sent me a copy of what he was working on and I wrote to him and said, 'Annoyingly, it's absolutely brilliant!' It was and is. It's not anything that would be a spoiler for the original at all, it's an interesting add-on to the thing."
Mason also backed the premise of the album, saying it's interesting to reinvent music.
"One of the things I like about any sort of existing piece of music is to develop it or find some extra quality in it," Mason explained. "I just like this idea of developing music rather than trying to retain it exactly as it was."
