Pink Floyd announced that 'Endless River‘, his new album in two decades, will be released on November 10, with previously unreleased footage recorded before Rick Wright's death. The new work, which will be released in various formats, will consist of 18 mainly instrumental songs. To create this new album, the musicians made a selection of unreleased songs that they began to record in the nineties and that they have grouped under a cover in which a young man is seen in a boat, with his shirt open, sailing in A sea of clouds, a dream of the 18-year-old Egyptian artist Ahmed Emad Eldin.
It is the second cover of an album by the iconic group that the late Storm Thorgerson has not produced, after 1967's "Piper At The Gates Of Dawn", and the first to be released after 1994's "The Division Bell." 'Endless River'consists of a selection of modified tracks that were originally written and recorded by guitarist / singer David Gilmour, keyboardist Rick Wright and drummer Nick Mason during the 1994 recording sessions for their work "The Division Bell." Wright, who founded Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett, Nick Mason and Roger Waters, passed away from cancer in 2008.
“We listened to more than 20 hours of the three (Gilmour, Wright and Mason) playing together and selected the music we wanted to work with for the new album. During the last year, we added new parts, re-recorded others and, in general, we used studio technology to create a Pink Floyd album of the XNUMXst century ", Gilmour explained to the website of" The Guardian ".
For his part, drummer Nick Mason noted that "The Endless River" is a "tribute" to Richard Wright: "I think this album is a good way to recognize a lot of what he does and how his playing was in the heart of the Pink Floyd sound.
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