In a new talk with The Guardian, David Gilmour answered questions from fans and expressed sadness over not having faith in a higher power or divine being.
“It’s sad that I don’t believe in a higher power,” the guitarist replied when someone asked what he feels about mortality and immortality as one of the themes on ‘Luck and Strange.’
He continued, “There’s a song on the album called ‘A Single Spark’ – Polly’s words, my feelings – that comes from a line on the first page of Vladimir Nabokov’s book ‘Speak, Memory,’ and that says it all. I can’t remember quite how he put it, but he said that life is a single spark between two eternities.”
“I’m an atheist, so I hate to say it out loud, but there are times when it feels like music is channelling itself when I’m writing,” Gilmour also responded when asked if he thinks music comes only from the mind, or is it inspired by something greater in another question. “It doesn’t always feel like it’s something I’ve done – it’s somehow just comes through me.”
Gilmour’s fifth album, ‘Luck and Strange’ arrived on September 6, 2024. In an interview with Uncut, Gilmour and his wife Polly Samson talked about creating the album. Samson shared, “It’s written from the point of view of being older. Mortality is the constant.”
The guitarist added after her, “We spent a load of time during and after lockdown talking about and thinking about those kind of things.”
Gilmour’s children added extra vocals, lyrics, and instruments. The song ‘Luck and Strange’ has keyboards recorded in 2007 by Richard Wright, who passed away in 2008. The album also includes a cover of the 1999 song ‘Between Two Points’ by the Montgolfier Brothers.
The record also features Roger Eno, Guy Pratt, Adam Betts, Tom Herbert, Steve Gadd, and Steve DiStanislao.
