Album Cover Art By: AHMED EMAD ELDIN
To commemorate their 50 year career, PINK FLOYD had WORKED ON, ADDED PARTS, and REMASTERED the tracks, which derived from the 1993 ” DIVISION BELL, ” sessions, which resulted in ” THE ENDLESS RIVER, ” that paid tribute to the LATE, IMPECCABLE, KEYBOARDIST, RICK WRIGHT, whom BREATHED LIFE, into the albums, back in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, with his BEAUTIFUL & UNFORGETTABLE KEYBOARD WIZARDRY.
Although this is the last studio album, from this LEGENDARY PROG BAND, this INSTRUMENTAL album also included their latest radio release ” LOUDER THAN WORDS, ” featuring lyrics by POLLY SAMSON, who’s the Wife of DAVID GILMORE.
David Gilmour said: ” The music for ‘ Louder Than Words,’ is from those final sessions, the three of us playing together on the houseboat Astoria with Rick’s idiosyncratic keyboards, reminding me now that you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. “
” At the start of the album I asked Polly [Samson] to write the lyrics. She felt that what I played her didn’t need words, that hearing us play was more interesting. In the end she wrote just this one, which expresses, beautifully I think, the way the three of us, me, Nick and Rick have something when we play together, that has a magic that is louder than words. ”
Also featured on the album is the AWARD WINNING SCIENTIST, STEVEN HAWKINGS, who’s vocals are featured on the single, ” HAWKING TALKING, ” just like he contributed his vocals on the DIVISION BELL’S single, ” KEEP TALKING. ”
FOR MORE LUCID EXPLANATION OF THE MAKING OF THIS ALBUM, CLICK ONTO THIS YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41O2PmucBn4
TO LISTEN TO & HEAR THE SAMPLE OF ” LOUDER THAN WORDS, ” CLICK ONTO THIS YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFXBlS0KsHU
AND NOW, EULOGIES, TO RICK WRIGHT, FROM THE BAND:
David Gilmour
” No one can replace Richard Wright. He was my musical partner and my friend. In the welter of arguments about who or what was Pink Floyd, Rick’s enormous input was frequently forgotten. He was gentle, unassuming and private but his soulful voice and playing were vital, magical components of our most recognised Pink Floyd sound. “
” I have never played with anyone quite like him. The blend of his and my voices and our musical telepathy reached their first major flowering in 1971 on ‘Echoes’. In my view all the greatest PF moments are the ones where he is in full flow. After all, without ‘Us and Them’ and ‘The Great Gig In The Sky’, both of which he wrote, what would ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ have been? Without his quiet touch the Album ‘Wish You Were Here’ would not quite have worked.”
” In our middle years, for many reasons he lost his way for a while, but in the early Nineties, with ‘ The Division Bell ‘, his vitality, spark and humour returned to him and then the audience reaction to his appearances on my tour in 2006 was hugely uplifting and it’s a mark of his modesty that those standing ovations came as a huge surprise to him, (though not to the rest of us). Like Rick, I don’t find it easy to express my feelings in words, but I loved him and will miss him enormously. ”
Roger Waters
” I was very sad to hear of Rick’s premature death, I knew he had been ill, but the end came suddenly and shockingly. My thoughts are with his family, particularly [his children] Jamie and Gala and their mum Juliet, who I knew very well in the old days, and always liked very much and greatly admired.”
” As for the man and his work, it is hard to overstate the importance of his musical voice in the Pink Floyd of the ’60s and ’70s. The intriguing, jazz influenced, modulations and voicings so familiar in ‘Us and Them’ and ‘Great Gig in the Sky,’ which lent those compositions both their extraordinary humanity and their majesty, are omnipresent in all the collaborative work the four of us did in those times. Rick’s ear for harmonic progression was our bedrock. “
” I am very grateful for the opportunity that Live 8 afforded me to engage with him and David [Gilmour] and Nick [Mason] that one last time. I wish there had been more. ”
Nick Mason
” Like any band, you can never quite quantify who does what. But Pink Floyd wouldn’t have been Pink Floyd if [we] hadn’t had Rick. “
” I think there’s a feeling now — particularly after all the warfare that went on with Roger and David trying to make clear what their contribution was — that perhaps Rick rather got pushed into the background. Because the sound of Pink Floyd is more than the guitar, bass, and drum thing. Rick was the sound that knitted it all together..”
” He was by far the quietest of the band, right from day one. And, I think, probably harder to get to know than the rest of us… It’s almost that George Harrison thing. You sort of forget that they did a lot more than perhaps they’re given credit for. ”
Finally, here’s a FEW WORDS from PROG FAN, MR. DR. WHO & 007, himself ALAN CAYLOW:
” Well, all good things….”
” It’s only natural when you’re a huge fan of a band that you just want them to go on and on and on forever and ever, but nothing lasts forever.”
” With the release of ‘ The Endless River, ‘ a final parting gift from Pink Floyd to us ( In memory of Richard Wright ), the band will have 15 studio albums under their belt, and that’s a very impressive catalog of music for a band to have.”
” Thank you Pink Floyd for your great music that has enriched my life. I will gladly buy this one last Pink Floyd album to add to my collection. David, Nick, Rick, Roger and Syd: thank you for the music. ” 🙂
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YOU CAN PRE-ORDER ” THE ENDLESS RIVER, ” which is a DELUXE CD/BLUE-RAY CASEBOOK EDITION, before it’s RELEASE DATE of NOVEMBER 10, 2014, for only $30.47 USD, by CLICKING ONTO THIS AMAZON.COM LINK: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NQKWAIQ/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00NQKWAIQ&linkCode=as2&tag=conseofsound-20&linkId=LS3BNOLF5ZL5ABAP
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