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Richard Wright: Broken China

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Label: EMI Records
Released: 1996.11.26
Time:
 59:34
Category: Progressive Rock
Producer(s): Richard Wright, Anthony Moore, Laurie Latham
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.richardwright.net
Appears with: Name
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Breaking Water (Wright, Moore) - 2:28
[2] Night of a Thousand Furry Toys (Wright, Moore) - 4:22
[3] Hidden Fear (Wright, Gordon) - 3:28
[4] Runaway (Moore) - 4:00
[5] Unfair Ground (Wright) - 2:21
[6] Satellite (Wright) - 4:06
[7] Woman of Custom (Moore) - 3:44
[8] Interlude (Wright) - 1:16
[9] Black Cloud (Wright) - 3:19
[10] Far from the Harbour Wall (Wright, Moore) - 6:19
[11] Drowning (Wright) - 1:38
[12] Reaching for the Rail (Wright, Moore) - 6:30
[13] Blue Room in Venice (Wright, Gordon) - 2:47
[14] Sweet July (Wright) - 4:13
[15] Along the Shoreline (Wright, Moore) - 4:36
[16] Breakthrough (Wright, Moore) - 4:19

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Richard Wright - Keyboards, Vocals, Programming, Engineer, Producer
Anthony Moore - Computer Programming & Arrangements, Telephone Vocal on [2], Engineer, Producer
Sinéad O'Connor - Lead Vocals on [12,16]
Tim Renwick - Guitars
Dominic Miller - Guitars
Steven Bolton - Guitars
Pino Palladino - Bass Guitar
Manu Katché - Drums, Percussion
Sian Bell - Cello
Kate St. John - Oboe, Cor Anglais
Maz Palladino - Backing Vocals

Laurie Latham  - Engineer, Co-Producer, Production Assistant
Jake Davies - Assistant, Assistant Engineer, Mixing Assistant
Max Hayes  - Assistant, Assistant Engineer
Graeme Stewart  - Assistant, Assistant Engineer
James Guthrie - Mixing
Ron Lewter  - Mastering
Doug Sax  - Mastering
Storm Thorgerson - Sleeve Design
Peter Curzon - Sleeve Design
Tony May - Photography
Jason Reddy - Computer
Julien Mils - Artwork
Finlay Cowan - Artwork

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Recorded early 1996 (Studio Harmonie, France)



This rather humdrum effort from Pink Floyd's keyboard player does have touches of his former band's haunting ambience, but the tracks on Broken China lazily skim along on shallow waves of new age-like synthesizer passages and lilting rhythms rather than engulf its concept of a man who is experiencing the repercussions of clinical depression, which is in itself Pink Floyd-like. The album is divided up into four sections, each representing a different stage of the character's mental illness. The idea is interesting enough and, while Wright's vocals are eerily reminiscent of Roger Waters, the concept fails to gain any momentum from one cycle to another. The music is dark...but too dark, and the lyrics are abstract...only they're too abstract. Wright gets too caught up in the complexities of his imagery, so much so that he fails to extend his concept outwardly in the form of music or message. Rather than jut out or take hold, the tracks all converge into each other with little or no rhythmic resurgence or elevation. "Reaching for the Rail" and "Breakthrough" are sung by Sinead O'Connor, one of the album's upsides, while oboe and cello add noticeable weight to the music's somberness in all the right places. Wright's first solo release, entitled Wet Dreams, is a much more entertaining effort, as is Zee-Identity, his 1984 collaboration with Dave Harris.

Mike DeGagne - All Music Guide



The album is a four-part concept album which documents Wright's then-wife Mildred's battle with depression, and is very much like a classic Pink Floyd concept album in its structure and overall feel. Two songs, "Reaching for the Rail" and "Breakthrough" feature Sinéad O'Connor on lead vocals, with Wright singing elsewhere. The album was recorded in Wright's personal studio in France. Broken China was only Wright's second solo record after 1978's Wet Dream and the last to be released before his death in September 2008. Wright asked fellow Pink Floyd bandmate David Gilmour to perform on the album, to which Gilmour agreed to play one track. However, the approach for the song was changed later on, and Gilmour's performance was not used on the finished album. On the DVD David Gilmour in Concert, a guest appearance is made by Wright, who sings "Breakthrough" accompanied by David Gilmour and his band. The packaging has artwork by Pink Floyd's regular designer, Storm Thorgerson, and Peter Curzon.

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