A total Pink Floyd eclipse

Arts & Entertainment Sound

Rita Bratovich
November 24, 2022

Image: ECLIPSE Pink Floyd Orchestrated. Image: supplied

ECLIPSE Pink Floyd Orchestrated takes the esoteric progressive rock sound of seminal band, Pink Floyd, and embellishes it with a supergroup of ten Aussie musicians, a specially assembled symphony orchestra, and 23 fresh young voices from the The Sydney Children’s Choir.

Pink Floyd’s music helped define the psychedelic and experimental sound of the 1960s and ‘70s. With monumental concept albums that include The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977) and The Wall (1979), they not only created timeless music but captured and even influenced the social ethos.

Southern Cross Symphony at ECLIPSE Pink Floyd Orchestrated. Image: supplied

The music of Pink Floyd has an inherent electro-symphonic feel which lends itself perfectly to re-imagined arrangements Musical Director Warwick Cheatle for ECLIPSE Pink Floyd Orchestrated.

Cheatle also plays bass and guitars in the ECLIPSE band, which also features:

Jack Jones – Lead Vocals and Guitar

Cam Blokland – Lead Vocals and Guitar

Rob Wolfe – Lead Vocals and Piano

Joseph Calderazzo – Lead Guitar

Paul White – Keyboards

Brad Polain – Lead Vocals, Drums and Percussion

Diane Dixon, Natalie Ermer and Emily Kelly – Backing vocals

Some of the ECLIPSE band. Image: supplied

“Each member of the ECLIPSE band is a highly acclaimed professional performer, from a range of musical genres and backgrounds. What brings us together is the enjoyment that comes from performing some of the most powerful and amazing music ever written. Add to this, the chance to hear the synthesised sounds of Pink Floyd played with the richness of the orchestral instruments they were electronically simulating takes this aural feast to a new level,” says Cheatle.

Filling in the musical landscape is the newly created Southern Cross Symphony (SXS), whose first gig together was performing orchestral reiterations of Led Zeppelin in Adelaide.

The Sydney Children’s Choir is widely regarded as one of the best treble choirs in the world. It has selected 23 of its most rebellious members to sing the eerily subversive choral section of “Another Brick In The Wall”, which became an anti-establishment anthem of the 1980s.