The Endless River
by Pink Floyd
- Type: Album
- Released: 10 November 2014
- Label: Parlophone Records
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 1:05:06
- Community rating: 3.03/5 from 14 ratings
Artists on this release: Polly Samson, Louise Clare Marshall, Helen Nash, Sarah Brown, Gilad Atzmon, Stephen Hawking, Honor Watson, Richard Wright, Chantal Leverton, Durga McBroom, Aubrey Powell, Hipgnosis, Jon Carin, Anthony Moore, Nick Mason, Guy Pratt, Victoria Lyon
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Serving as the final studio album from the band, 'The Endless River' is primarily an instrumental and ambient work based on unreleased material from 'The Division Bell' sessions. The album is a tribute to the late keyboardist Richard Wright, whose signature playing is featured prominently throughout the four continuous suites of music. It is a reflective and atmospheric coda to the band's career, evoking the classic Pink Floyd sound through its soaring guitar solos, ethereal keyboard textures, and spacious production.
Genres
Descriptors: instrumental, atmospheric, tribute
Tracklist
- Side 1, Pt. 1: Things Left Unsaid (4:24)
- Side 1, Pt. 2: It's What We Do (6:21)
- Side 1, Pt. 3: Ebb And Flow (1:50)
- Side 2, Pt. 1: Sum (4:49)
- Side 2, Pt. 2: Skins (2:37)
- Side 2, Pt. 3: Unsung (1:06)
- Side 2, Pt. 4: Anisina (3:15)
- Side 3, Pt. 1: The Lost Art of Conversation (1:43)
- Side 3, Pt. 2: On Noodle Street (1:42)
- Side 3, Pt. 3: Night Light (1:42)
- Side 3, Pt. 4: Allons-y (1) (1:56)
- Side 3, Pt. 5: Autumn '68 (1:35)
- Side 3, Pt. 6: Allons-y (2) (1:35)
- Side 3, Pt. 7: Talkin' Hawkin' (3:25)
- Side 4, Pt. 1: Calling (3:38)
- Side 4, Pt. 2: Eyes To Pearls (1:51)
- Side 4, Pt. 3: Surfacing (2:46)
- Side 4, Pt. 4: Louder Than Words (6:32)
- TBS9 (2:27)
- TBS14 (4:11)
- Nervana (5:30)
Credits
- Pink Floyd - primary artist
- Aubrey Powell - creative director
- Hipgnosis - creative director
- Ahmed Emad Eldin - design concept [front cover concept], cover [front cover concept]
- Stylorouge - design, art direction
- Andy Jackson - engineer [engineered by], mixed by, producer [produced by], bass guitar, effects
- Damon Iddins - engineer [engineered with], mixed by [mixed with], keyboards
- Phil Taylor - engineer, technician
- StormStudios - illustration
- One Fifteen - management
- Paul Loasby - management
- Tony Smith - management
- Tony Smith Personal Management - management
- Doug Sax - mastered by [vinyl mastered by]
- Andy Earl - photography by
- Harry Borden - photography by
- Jill Furmanovsky - photography by
- Simon Fowler - photography by
- Bob Ezrin - producer [produced by], keyboards, bass guitar
- David Gilmour - producer [produced by], guitar, written-by, bass guitar, guitar, guitar, bass guitar, synthesizer, guitar, piano, synthesizer, piano, keyboards, guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals, percussion, guitar, guitar, effects, keyboards, vocals, guitar, organ, effects
- Phil Manzanera - producer [produced by]
- Youth - producer [produced by], sound designer, programmed by, engineer, effects
- Claire Singers - public relations [ld communications]
- Doug Wright - public relations [ld communications]
- Eddie Banda - sound designer, programmed by, engineer
- Michael Rendall - sound designer, programmed by, engineer
- Richard Wright - organ, keyboards, synthesizer, written-by, keyboards, synthesizer, strings, electric piano, organ, piano, piano, synthesizer, electric piano [fender rhodes], pipe, organ, piano, organ, synthesizer, synthesizer, keyboards, electric piano [fender rhodes], piano, synthesizer
- Nick Mason - drums, written-by, rototoms, drums, gong, percussion, percussion, drums
- Gilad Atzmon - clarinet, tenor saxophone
- Guy Pratt - bass guitar
- Jon Carin - synthesizer, percussion, synthesizer
- Durga McBroom - backing vocals
- Stephen Hawking - voice
- Anthony Moore - keyboards, written-by
- Louise Clare Marshall - backing vocals
- Sarah Brown - backing vocals
- Chantal Leverton - strings
- Helen Nash - strings
- Honor Watson - strings
- Victoria Lyon - strings
- Polly Samson - written-by, lyrics by