» Cirrus Minor

The live premier of Simon's side-project with Bernard Trontin was in September'05 in Casino-Théâtre, Genève. The song Cirrus Minor from this event can now be found free for download on the internet album 'Frank Bianchi - A tribute to the Caiman'.

Reportedly a metaphor for a drug experience the song was written 1969 by Roger Waters for the Pink Floyd soundtrack of the film 'More'. The song was named after a type of cloud formation.
The plot of the movie is about a foreign student who arrives in Paris and meets a girl who is into drugs. After falling in love with her, he gets addicted to heroin and eventually dies of an overdose.

In a churchyard by a river
Lazing in the haze of midday
Laughing in the grasses
And the graves

Yellow bird you are not long
In singing and in flying on
In laughing and in leaving

Willow weeping in the water
Waving to the river-daughters
Swaying in the ripples and the reeds

On a trip to cirrus minor
Saw an angel in the Sun
A thousand miles of moonlight later


(Also in remembrance of Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett who has passed away last week.)