Roger Waters has released The Lockdown Sessions across all digital music partners. The collection of songs, released on Dec. 9, 2022, were recorded and filmed at home during the Covid lockdown between 2020 and 2021. Also included with the release is “Comfortably Numb 2022” which was recorded during Waters “This Is Not A Drill” North American tour. The 1980 song, written by David Gilmour and Waters, originally appeared on the Pink Floyd album, The Wall. The song is available for purchase digitally here. Watch several of the performances below.

Appearing on the recordings are Waters – Vocals; Gus Seyffert – Bass, Synth, Percussion, Vocals; Joey Waronker – Drums; Dave Kilminster – Vocals; Jonathan Wilson – Harmonium, Synth, Guitar and Vocals; Jon Carin – Synth, Vocals;  Lucius (Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig) – Vocals. The sessions were produced by Waters and Seyffert.

In the Dec. 9 announcement, Waters said, “Our ‘Us and Them’ Tour lasted three years…At every gig we did an encore after the main show closed with ‘Comfortably Numb’…the encore was always ‘Mother’… I can’t remember why I decided to start doing other songs?…Anyway, at some point after the end of the tour…I started thinking, ‘It could make an interesting album, all those encores.'”

The Lockdown Sessions are five seminal tracks from Waters’ time with Pink Floyd and his solo career. Also included are “Vera” from Pink Floyd’s The Wall; “Two Suns in the Sunset” and “The Gunner’s Dream” from Waters’ final Pink Floyd album, The Final Cut; and “The Bravery of Being Out of Range” from his solo album, Amused to Death.

Waters added: “During Lockdown I made a demo of a new version of ‘Comfortably Numb‘ as an opener for our new show, ‘This Is Not A Drill.’ I pitched it a whole step down, in A Minor, to make it darker and arranged it with no solos, except over the outro chord sequence, where there is a heartrendingly beautiful female vocal solo from Shanay Johnson, one of our new singers.

“It’s intended as a wakeup call, and a bridge towards a kinder future with more talking to strangers, either in ‘The Bar’ or just ‘Passing in the Street’ and less slaughter ‘In Some Foreign Field’.”

The video, nearly nine minutes long, was produced and directed by Sean Evans; photography is by Kate Izor.

[Also appearing on the track are Amanda Belair – Vocals; and Nigel Godrich – Strings, amp and backing vocals from Roger Waters The Wall Sessions.]

The Lockdown Sessions is available to purchase digitally in the U.S. here, and in the U.K. here.

Waters’ “This Is Not a Drill” will tour Europe in 2023 with 40 shows across 14 European countries, starting on March 17. Tickets are available here and here)

Watch Waters perform “Comfortably Numb” and “Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)” during his 2022 tour.

Related: Our recap of opening night of Waters’ “This Is Not a Drill” tour