The The Endless River [CD/Blu-Ray]

The The Endless River [CD/Blu-Ray]

by Pink Floyd
The The Endless River [CD/Blu-Ray]

The The Endless River [CD/Blu-Ray]

by Pink Floyd

CD(Special Edition / with Blu-ray)

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Overview

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 a 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. [Endless River was also released in 63-track, CD/Blu-Ray set included stereo and 5.1 Audio mixes.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date: 11/10/2014
Label: Columbia
UPC: 0888750201027
Rank: 94179

Tracks

Disc 1

  1. Things Left Unsaid
  2. It's What We Do
  3. Ebb And Flow
  4. Sum
  5. Skins
  6. Unsung
  7. Anisina
  8. The Lost Art of Conversation
  9. On Noodle Street
  10. Night Light
  11. Allons-y (1)
  12. Autumn '68
  13. Allons-y (2)
  14. Talkin' Hawkin'
  15. Calling
  16. Eyes To Pearls
  17. Surfacing
  18. Louder Than Words

Disc 2

  1. Anisina [Audio-Visual Content]
  2. Untitled [Audio-Visual Content]
  3. Evrika (a) [Audio-Visual Content]
  4. Nervana [Audio-Visual Content]
  5. Allons-y [Audio-Visual Content]
  6. Evrika (b) [Audio-Visual Content]
  7. TBS9 [Audio Content]
  8. TBS 14 [Audio Content]
  9. Nervana [Audio Content]
  10. The Endless River [5.1 Surround and Stereo]

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Pink Floyd   Primary Artist
Sarah Brown   Vocals (Background),Vocals (Background)
Richard Wright   Piano,Strings,Keyboards,Pipe Organ,Synthesizer,Farfisa Organ,Fender Rhodes,Organ (Hammond),Piano (Electric)
Nick Mason   Gong,Drums,Roto Toms,Percussion
Andy Jackson   Guitar (Bass)
Durga McBroom   Vocals (Background)
Jon Carin   Loop Drums,Synthesizer
Louise Marshall   Vocals (Background)
Chantal Leverton   Strings
Victoria Lyon   Strings
Escala   Strings
Helen Nash   Strings
Honor Watson   Strings
Anthony Moore   Keyboards
David Gilmour   Ebo,Piano,Guitar,Vocals,Keyboards,Percussion,Guitar (Bass),Organ (Hammond),VCS 3 Synthesizer,Vocals (Background)
Guy Pratt   Guitar (Bass)
Gilad Atzmon   Clarinet,Sax (Tenor)
Damon Iddins   Keyboards
Bob Ezrin   Keyboards,Guitar (Bass)

Technical Credits

Andy Jackson   Effects,Mastering
Polly Samson   Composer,Lyricist
Richard Wright   Composer
Nick Mason   Composer
Stephen Hawking   Voice Sample
Anthony Moore   Composer
David Gilmour   Effects,Composer
Youth   Effects
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