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Pink Floyd: The Endless River

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Label: Parlophone Records
Released: 2014.11.07
Time:
 53:02
Category: Progressive Rock
Producer(s): David Gilmour, Youth, Andy Jackson, Phil Manzanera
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.pinkfloyd.com
Appears with: David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Richard Wright
Purchase date: 2014
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Things Left Unsaid (D.Gilmour/R.Wright) - 4:26
[2] It's What We Do (D.Gilmour/R.Wright) - 6:17
[3] Ebb and Flow (D.Gilmour/R.Wright) - 1:55
[4] Sum (D.Gilmour/N.Mason/R.Wright) - 4:48
[5] Skins (D.Gilmour/N.Mason/R.Wright) - 2:37
[6] Unsung (R.Wright) - 1:07
[7] Anisina (D.Gilmour) - 3:16
[8] The Lost Art of Conversation (R.Wright) - 1:42
[9] On Noodle Street (D.Gilmour/R.Wright) - 1:42
[10] Night Light (D.Gilmour/R.Wright) - 1:42
[11] Allons-y [1] (D.Gilmour) - 1:57
[12] Autumn '68 (R.Wright) - 1:35
[13] Allons-y [2] (D.Gilmour) - 1:32
[14] Talkin' Hawkin' (D.Gilmour/R.Wright) - 3:29
[15] Calling (D.Gilmour/A.Moore) - 3:37
[16] Eyes to Pearls (D.Gilmour) - 1:51
[17] Surfacing (D.Gilmour) - 2:46
[18] Louder than Words (D.Gilmour/P.Samson) - 6:36

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David Gilmour - Guitars on [1-2,4-18], Ebow Guitar on [1,3,10], Lead Vocals on [18], Backing Vocals on [7,15,17], Keyboards on [7,15,16], Piano on [6,7], Ems Vcs 3 on [4,6], Bass Guitar on [2,4,7,17], Hammond Organ on [18], Percussion on [8], Voice Samples on [1], Producer
Nick Mason - Drums on [2,4,5,7,9,11,13,14,16-18], Percussion on [15,18], Rototoms on [5], Gong on [5,12,16], Voice Samples on [1]
Richard Wright - Hammond Organ on [1,11,13,16], Farfisa Organ on [4,6,14,16], Pipe Organ on [12], Piano on [4,6,8,14,18], Rhodes Piano on [9,18], Electric Piano on [3], Keyboards on [1,2,5,16,17], Synthesiser on [1,2,8,10,14,17,18], Voice Samples on [1,18]

Guy Pratt - Bass Guitaron [9,14]
Bob Ezrin - Bass Guitar on [11,13,18], Additional Keyboards on [1], Co-Producer 1993 Sessions
Andy Jackson - Bass Guitar on [5,16], Effects on [15], Engineer, Co-Producer, Mixing
Jon Carin - Synthesisers on [9,11,13], Percussion Loop on [11,13]
Damon Iddins - Additional Keyboards on [4, 12]
Anthony Moore - Keyboards on [15]
Gilad Atzmon - Tenor Saxophone on [7], Clarinet on [7]

Escala:
Chantal Leverton - Viola on [18]
Victoria Lyon - Violin on [18]
Helen Nash - Cello on [18]
Honor Watson - Violin on [18]

Durga Mcbroom - Backing Vocals on [14,17,18]
Louise Marshal - Backing Vocals on [18]
Sarah Brown - Backing Vocals on [18]
Stephen Hawking - Voice Sample on [14]
Youth - Additional Programming, Engineering, Sound Design, Assorted Synthesizers & Keyboards, Co-Producer
Eddie Bander - Additional Programming, Engineering, Sound Design, Assorted Synthesizers & Keyboards
Michael Rendall - Additional Programming, Engineering, Sound Design, Assorted Synthesizers & Keyboards

Damon Iddins - Engineer
Phil Manzanera - Co-Producer
Doug Sax - Mastering for The Vinyl Issue
Aubrey Powell - Creative Director
Stylorouge - Sleeve Design
Ahmed Emad Eldin - Album Cover Concept

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Recorded in 1969, 1993, and 2013–2014 at Royal Albert Hall (1969), Olympic Studios (1993), Britannia Row Studios (1993), Astoria (1993, 2013–2014), Medina Studios (2013–2014).



David Gilmour sang about an endless river on "High Hopes," the last song on what appeared to be the last Pink Floyd album, 1994's Division Bell. Twenty years later, the same phrase became the title of The Endless River, an album designed as Pink Floyd's last. Assembled largely from Division Bell outtakes initially intended as an ambient project dubbed The Big Spliff, the record was sculpted into shape in 2014 by Gilmour, Youth, Andy Jackson, and Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera by adding guitar and Nick Mason's drums to original tapes that were laden with keyboards from the late Rick Wright. He's not the only missing member of Floyd, of course. Roger Waters is absent, as is the long-gone Syd Barrett, but their ghosts are present throughout the primarily instrumental The Endless River. Mortality is on the mind of the two remaining Floyds, mentioned obliquely in "Louder Than Words," the only song with lyrics here, but felt through allusions to all their possible pasts. A song unfurls with washes of synth pulled from "Welcome to the Machine," the four sides are structured like an ongoing amorphous suite à la "Shine on You Crazy Diamond," snippets of Atom Heart Mother slide against guitars that beat to the rhythm from "Run Like Hell," creating an impression of a band in a state of repose: they're not indulging in their past so much as reflecting on it, watching a tide of memories repeatedly roll in and out. Although very little about The Endless River is risky by design -- it is one of the most popular bands of the 20th century returning to slowly pulsating aural waves that characterized their biggest albums -- the very shift away from vocals realigns the band with not only Wish You Were Here (which this often resembles) but their pre-Dark Side records for Harvest, undercutting the arena-pleasing aspirations of the Gilmour-led reunion while underscoring how Pink Floyd always were an arty band at their core. Instrumentals are also a savvy solution to the trouble of working with uncompleted tapes -- it's easier to turn them into an ever-shifting suite than to graft on melodies -- but the comforting sway of swelling synthesizers and the soaring Gilmour guitar are sometimes unexpectedly moving. Gilmour and Mason know this is their farewell, so they're saying goodbye not with a major statement but with a soft, bittersweet elegy that functions as a canny coda to their career.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide



The Endless River represents a return to the creative principles that informed the writing process that produced Pink Floyd classics like Echoes, Shine On You Crazy Diamond and Animals.

In early 1993, David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright set up their equipment in their own Britannia Row Studios in Islington and created more than hundred pieces of music by jamming together, interacting with each other's performances and recording the results.

They then honed the pieces at David's Astoria floating studio, played them live for 2 days at Olympic Studios in Barnes with an extended lineup (Guy Pratt on bass, Jon Carin on keyboards and Gary Wallis on percussion). After that, the core trio returned to Astoria, and worked further on the compositions, alongside co-producer Bob Ezrin, refining the structure, tempos and arrangements. The result, after lyrics and vocals were added, was the 12 million selling 'Division Bell' album.

At the time, there had been talk of a separate ambient album being created from the non-vocal tracks not subsequently issued on 'The Division Bell', but the idea was eventually dropped.

In 2014 David Gilmour and Nick Mason re-entered the studio and, starting with unreleased keyboard performances by Richard Wright, who sadly died in 2008, added further instrumentation to the tracks, as well as creating new material. The result is The Endless River, including 60% of recordings other than the 1993 sessions, but based upon them. The title is a further link, '... the endless river...' being part of the closing phrases of High Hopes, the final song of the previous Pink Floyd album.

David Gilmour describes the record as follows: "The Endless River has as its starting point the music that came from the 1993 Division Bell sessions. We listened to over 20 hours of the three of us playing together and selected the music we wanted to work on for the new album. Over the last year we've added new parts, re-recorded others and generally harnessed studio technology to make a 21st century Pink Floyd album. With Rick gone, and with him the chance of ever doing it again, it feels right that these revisited and reworked tracks should be made available as part of our repertoire."

Stylistically, The Endless River includes all of the musical elements that characterize Pink Floyd: mellifluous keyboards, jazz-tinged drums, musique concrete, ethereal vocals, and distinctive, emotional lead guitar. As well as Pink Floyd's trademark backing vocals, there is one vocal track, with lyrics by author Polly Samson, who also contributed to The Division Bell.

Amazon.com



Mostly instrumental set honors the band’s psychedelic legacy

It was bassist Roger Waters' lyric: "Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way." But guitarist David Gilmour and keyboard player Richard Wright sang that line on 1973's The Dark Side of the Moon, then proved it in a creative relationship that survived Wright's forced resignation during sessions for The Wall and the subsequent rupture of the Floyd itself. The Endless River is Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason's generous farewell to Wright, who died in 2008, built from unissued music the three made together for 1994's The Division Bell.

A suite of mostly instrumental moods and fragments, The Endless River rolls like a requiem through familiar echoes. "Skins" is a trip back to the jungle-telegraph sequence in 1968's "A Saucerful of Secrets"; the piano figure in "Anisina" is a stately variation on Wright's indelible intro to Dark Side's "Us and Them." The effect is inevitably cinematic, a fluid rewind to the Floyd's early film scores. One piece, a suspense of glacial electronics and elegantly searing guitar, is rightly titled "It's What We Do."

"Louder Than Words," the closing vocal track, is undercut by slang in the first lines. But when Gilmour sings, "The beat of our hearts/Is louder than words," it feels, again, like hanging on – with grace. Wright was the steady, binding majesty in the Floyd's explorations. This album is an unexpected, welcome epitaph. 

David Fricke November 7, 2014
RollingStone.com



The Endless River is the fifteenth and final studio album by the British progressive rock band Pink Floyd. It was released by Parlophone and Columbia Records in Friday-release countries on 7 November 2014, and in the United Kingdom and United States on 10 November 2014. It is Pink Floyd's first studio album since the death of keyboardist and founder member Richard Wright, who appears posthumously, and the third by the David Gilmour-led Pink Floyd following Roger Waters' departure in 1985. It is also the first Pink Floyd album distributed by Parlophone and Warner Bros. Records following the purchase of EMI and its assets by the Universal Music Group in 2012, their transfer to Parlophone and the purchase of Parlophone by Warner Bros. in 2013.

Described as a "swan song" for Wright, The Endless River mostly comprises instrumental music. It is based on 20 hours of unreleased material Pink Floyd wrote, recorded and produced with Wright during sessions for their previous studio album The Division Bell (1994). New material was recorded in 2013 and 2014 in Gilmour's studios the Astoria and Medina Studios in Hove, England. It was produced by Gilmour, Youth, Andy Jackson and Phil Manzanera.

Information about the The Endless River was leaked via social media, after which Pink Floyd made a formal announcement. The band, Parlophone and Columbia Records (outside Europe) launched a promotional campaign with television advertisements and installations of the album artwork in cities around the world, including London, New York, Paris, Berlin and Milan. The cover concept is by Ahmed Emad Eldin with sleeve design by Stylorouge and creative direction by Aubrey Powell.

The Endless River became the most pre-ordered album of all time on Amazon UK, and debuted at number one in several countries. The vinyl edition was the fastest-selling UK vinyl release of 2014 and the fastest-selling since 1997. The album received mixed reviews.

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