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Coinciding with Richard Wright's 80th birthday, on July 28, his first solo album, Wet Dream, will be reissued on LP, CD and Blu-Ray by Parlophone.

 

Recorded in France at Super Bear Studios which were also used for The Wall album and David Gilmour's first solo album.

 

It was produced by Richard Wright, accompanied among other musicians by Snowy White, who was with Pink Floyd the year before on the Animals tour and by Mel Collins, who participated in The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking tour and in the album and tour Radio KAOS by Roger Waters.

 

The original cover concept was designed by Storm Thorgerson and photographed by Aubrey Powell for Hipgnosis.

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The new cover, which refers to the nautical theme of the album, with a new image by photographer Costas Spathis, who lives and works in Greece, where the album was written there at the time and graphic design by Carl Glover. It has been commissioned and artistically directed by Gala and Jamie Wright, Richard's children and trustees of his estate, with never-before-published personal images and video from this period of his life.

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As with the original release, the bi-fold sleeve can be flipped open to enlarge the image.

 

Which is worth doing, because as then, the view opens onto a richly vibrant color palette.

 

This time, however, the unknown person in bright red shorts is swimming in the deep blue waters of the sea instead of a pool, and the expanded spectrum of the image reveals a view of a boat just out of their reach

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