5hVnz Song of the Month...

Pink Floyd - Marooned (Official Music Video)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7YMI39sObY

"Marooned" is an instrumental track on Pink Floyd's 1994 album, The Division Bell. It is the only Pink Floyd track to ever win a Grammy Award

The piece was written by Richard Wright and David Gilmour. It has sounds that describe the setting as an island, such as the sounds of seagulls and waves crashing on the shore. It was composed while jamming aboard the Astoria in early 1993. Gilmour processed the guitar sound with a DigiTech Whammy pedal to pitch-shift notes entire octaves. Also in the background can be heard wailing guitar effects by Gilmour, reminiscent of the song "Echoes". Wright's grand piano parts (originally played and recorded on a Kurzweil) were recorded at Olympic Studios in London.

David Gilmour has mentioned that "pretty much" all of "Marooned" is improvised and that he "probably took three or four passes at it and took the best bits out of each".

5hVnz Book of the Month...

"Tool and Weapons", by Brad Smith...The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age written by the President of Microsoft Brad Smith and Microsoft's Director of Communications Carol Ann Browne.

Brad Smith operated by a simple core belier: When your technology changes the world, you bear a responsibility to help address the world you have helped create.

Learn more about it at Microsoft News: Microsoft News