The Endless River

Aufnahmedatum:
Erscheinungsdatum:
Studio:

1993, 2013 und 2014

07. November 2014
Astoria Studio
Britannia Row Studio
Abbey Road Studios
Medina Studio
Olympic Studio
Produzent:
David Gilmour, Phil Manzanera, Youth, Andy Jackson
Toningenieur:
Andy Jackson mit Damon Iddins
Creative Director:
Aubrey Powell, Hipgnosis
Design And Art Direction:
Stylorouge
Sleeve Design:
Stylorouge
Front Cover Concept:
Ahmed Emad Eldin
Tree illustration:
StormStudio
Photography:
Simon Fowler
Recording Session Photography: Jill Furmanovsky
Lenticular Postcard Design: Martin Klimas
Pink Floyd Postcard:
Harry Borden
Sculpture Postcard:
StormStudios
Management:
Paul Loasby (One Fifteen), Tony Smith (Tony Smith Personal
Management)
LD Communications:
Claire Singers, Doug Wright
Special Thanks To:
Polly Samson (for her contributions tot he making of this record)

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David Gilmour:

Nick Mason:

Gitarren, EBow Gitarre, Bass Guitar, VCS3 Synthesizer, Piano,

Keyboards, Percussion, Hammond Orgel, Gesang, Backing Vocals, Soundeffecte
Orgel, Hammond Orgel, Synthesizer, Keyboards, Electric Piano,
Farfisa Orgel, Piano, Fender Rhodes, Royal Albert Hall
Pfeiffenorgel
Schlagzeug, Percussion, Rototoms, Gong, Soundeffekte

Bob Ezrin:
Damon Iddins:
Anthony Moore:
Jon Carin:
Andy Jackson:
Guy Pratt:
Youth:
Gilad Atzmon:
Durga McBroom:
Louise Marshall:
Sarah Brown:
Escala:
Helen Nash:
Honor Watson:
Victoria Lyon:
Chantal Leverton:
Stephen Hawking:

Keyboards, Bass Gitarre

Keyboards
Keyboards
Synthesizers, Percussion Loop
Bass Gitarre, Soundeffects
Bass Gitarre
Soundeffekte
Tenor Saxophone, Klarinette
Backing Vocals
Backing Vocals
Backing Vocals
Strings
Strings
Strings
Strings
Strings
Electronic Voice Sample

Rick Wright:

Side 1 (12:38)
Things Left Unsaid (4:26)
(David Gilmour, Richard Wright)
Its What We Do (6:17)
(David Gilmour, Richard Wright)
Ebb And Flow (1:55)
(David Gilmour, Richard Wright)

Side 2 (11:38)
Sum (4:48)
(David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Richard Wright)
Skins (2:37)
(David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Richard Wright)
Unsung (1:07)
(Richard Wright)
Anisina (3:16)
(David Gilmour)

Side 3 (13:39)
The Lost Art Of Conversation (1:42)
(Richard Wright)
On Noodle Street (1:42)
(David Gilmour, Richard Wright)
Night Light (1:42)
(David Gilmour, Richard Wright)
Allons-y (1) (1:57)
(David Gilmour)
Autumn 68 (1:35)
(Richard Wright)
Allons-y (2) (1:32)
(David Gilmour)
Talkin Hawkin (3:29)
(David Gilmour, Richard Wright)

Side 4 (14:50)
Calling (3:37)
(David Gilmour, Anthony Moore)
Eyes To Pearls (1:51)
(David Gilmour)
Surfacing (2:46)
(David Gilmour)
Louder Than Words (6:36)
(David Gilmour, Polly Samson)

Video:
Anisina,
Untitled,
Evrika (a),
Nervana,
Allons-y,
Evrika (b)

Audio:
TBS9,
TBS14,
Nervana

The Endless River has as its starting point the music that came from the 1993 Division Bell
sessions, when David Gilmour, Rick Wright and Nick Mason played freely together at Britannia
Row and Astoria studios. This was the first time they had done so since the Wish You Were
Here sessions in the seventies. Those sessions resulted in The Division Bell, the bands last
studio album.
In 2013 David Gilmour and Nick Mason revisited the music from those sessions and decided
that the tracks should be made available as part of the Pink Floyd repertoire. It would be the
last time the three of them would be heard together. The band have spent the last year recording and upgrading the music, using the advantages of modern studio technology to create The
Endless River.
The Endless River is a tribute to Rick Wright, whose keyboards are at the heart of the Pink
Floyd sound. It is a mainly instrumental album with one song, Louder Than Words, (with new
lyrics by novelist Polly Samson), arranged across four sides and produced by David Gilmour,
Phil Manzanera, Youth and Andy Jackson.
Louder Than Words, the new song by Pink Floyd, had its first radio play on BBC Radio 2's
Chris Evans show (9 October 2014).
Louder Than Words is performed by Pink Floyd. Taken from David Gilmour, Rick Wright and
Nick Mason's 1993 Division Bell sessions it has new lyrics by writer and Division Bell lyricist
Polly Samson.
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".

2 Vinyl LP
Heavyweight 180 gram vinyl, mastered by Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab, Ojai, California.
Packaging: Gatefold sleeve, full colour inner bags, download card Full size, 11x11 16-page
photo/credit booklet including previously unseen photographs from 1993 sessions

Compact Disc (Standart CD)

Hard cover bound book package with foil blocking on cloth spine 16-page photo/credit booklet
including previously unseen photographs from 1993 sessions.

Deluxe CD & DVD Or Blu-Ray Package

Box includes 24-page photo/credit booklet in hard cover, including previously unseen photographs from 1993 sessions
CD in full colour card wallet with full colour label
DVD (NTSC) or BLU-RAY in full colour card wallet with full colour label 3 x Collectors full colour postcards, one of which with 3D Lenticular design DVD contains The Endless River album
in 5.1 Surround (Dolby Digital and DTS), plus stereo version in 48kHz /24 bit
BLU-RAY contains The Endless River album in high resolution 5.1 Surround (DTS Master
Audio and PCM, 96/24), plus PCM stereo 96/24
PLUS EXTRA non-album audio-visual material (approx. 39 minutes): 6 video tracks and 3 audio tracks, unavailable elsewhere Includes archive video material and still photographs shot at
the original 1993 recording sessions

DVD (NTSC) Version

The Endless River album in 5.1 Surround (Dolby Digital) 48kHz /24 bit
The Endless River album in 5.1 Surround (DTS) 48kHz /24 bit
The Endless River album in PCM stereo 48kHz /24 bit

BLU-RAY Version
The Endless River album in 5.1 Surround (DTS Master Audio) 96kHz /24 bit
The Endless River album in 5.1 Surround (PCM) 96kHz /24 bit
The Endless River album in PCM stereo 96kHz /24 bit

Video:
Anisina, Untitled, Evrika (a), Nervana, Allons-y, Evrika (b)
Video material from standard definition sources: DVD Audio: 48/24, Blu-Ray Audio: 96/24

Audio:
TBS9, TBS14, Nervana
DVD: PCM Stereo (48/24), BLU-RAY: PCM Stereo (96/24)

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