"Astronomy Dominé" was performed during the last few dates of Gilmour's On an Island tour, and is on his Remember That Night and Live in Gdańsk DVDs. The song was also played by Gilmour and his solo band (which included Wright with Pratt on bass guitar and Steve DiStanislao on drums) at the Abbey Road Studios sessions, which has been released as part of a CD/DVD On an Island package. This was the only song on the 1994 tour with Gilmour, Mason and Wright performing without backing musicians, with only Guy Pratt adding bass guitar and vocals. The Pulse version reverts to the original 4-minute length, with Gilmour and Wright taking lead vocals as in Ummagumma. The track is also on the 2001 Pink Floyd compilation album. He said of playing the song live for the first time in over 20 years: Gilmour played the song at some of his appearances during his solo 2006 tour, again sharing the lead vocal with fellow Floyd member Wright. A version from a concert in Miami appears as the B-side on the band's " Take It Back" single, and a version from one of the London concerts appears on the live album Pulse. The last time the song was performed with Waters was on 20 June 1971 at the Palaeur in Rome, Italy. It was dropped from the live sets in mid-1971, but reappeared as the first song in some sets on the band's 1994 tour. The Ummagumma version can also be found on the American release of A Nice Pair, a compilation album released in 1973. While Wright sang the higher harmony in the studio version, Gilmour sang the higher harmony live. The lead vocals are shared between Gilmour and Wright. The song is extended by including the first verse twice, and the instrumental middle section, before becoming louder again by the last verse. This version reflects the band's more progressive style of that era. It is the first track on the live side of the album Ummagumma, released in 1969. It was a popular live piece, regularly included in the band's concerts. Waters, in an interview with Nick Sedgewick, described "Astronomy Dominé" as "the sum total" of Barrett's writing about space, "yet there's this whole fucking mystique about how he was the father of it all". The track is the band's only overt "space rock" song, though a group-composed, abstract instrumental was titled "Interstellar Overdrive". In the live version heard on Ummagumma (1969), the post-Barrett band, with David Gilmour on guitar, normalised the introduction into straight E and E♭ major chords, also normalising the timing of the introduction, but, in 1994, Gilmour began performing a version closer to the original (as heard on Pulse) that he carried into his solo career.īarrett's Fender Esquire is played through a Binson echo machine, creating psychedelic delay effects. In the introduction, Barrett takes an ordinary open E major chord and moves the fretted notes down one semitone, resulting in an E♭ major chord superimposed onto an open E minor chord, fretting E♭ and B♭ notes along with the open E, G, B and high-E strings of the guitar the G functions both as major third to the E♭ chord and minor third to the E chord. The chorus is entirely chromatic, descending directly from A to D on guitar, bass guitar and falsetto singing, down one semitone every three beats. The verse has an unusual chord progression, all in major chords: E, E♭, G and A. Roger Waters' bass guitar line, Wright's Farfisa organ and Barrett's slide guitar then dominate, with Jenner's megaphone recitation re-emerging from the mix for a time. Barrett's lyrics about space support the theme in the song, mentioning the planets Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune as well as Uranian moons Oberon, Miranda and Titania, and Saturn's moon Titan.
Keyboard player Richard Wright's Farfisa organ is mixed into the background.
At 0:26, Nick Mason's drum fills begin and Barrett plays the introductory figure. Barrett's Fender Esquire emerges and grows louder. A barely audible line, "Pluto was not discovered till 1930", can be heard in the megaphonic mix. The song opens with the voice of one of their managers at the time, Peter Jenner, reading the names of planets, stars and galaxies through a megaphone. It was seen as Pink Floyd's first foray into space rock (along with " Interstellar Overdrive"), although band members later disparaged this term. "Dominé" (the vocative of "Lord" in Latin) is a word frequently used in Gregorian chants. Its working title was "Astronomy Dominé (An Astral Chant)". The lead vocal was sung by Barrett and the keyboard player Richard Wright. The song, written and composed by the original vocalist/guitarist Syd Barrett, is the opening track on their debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967). " Astronomy Dominé" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd. 4:12 ( The Piper at the Gates of Dawn version).
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