Did you know?: Pink Floyd to release album after 20 years
The album will be released in October this year.
Pink Floyd, the 1970’s rock band is ready to release a new album called The Endless River in October after a break of two long decades.
This new collection will be based on their unreleased album, The Division Bell, which starred guitarist David Gilmour, late keyboardist Richard Wright and drummer Nick Mason. The founding member of the band died in an undisclosed disease in 2008. Polly Samson, the wife of Gilmour the guitarist tweeted: “The album is Rick Wright’s swansong and very beautiful,” reported IANS.
“Work is still in progress, but more details to come at the end of the summer,” Doug Wright, the band’s UK PR company LD Communications, said in a statement. The songs are “mainly ambient and instrumental music” according to a source, reported E! Online.
“The recording did start during The Division Bell sessions [and yes, it was the side project originally titled The Big Spliff that (Pink Floyd drummer) Nick Mason spoke about], which is why there are Richard Wright tracks on it. But David and Nick have gone in and done a lot more since then,” Durga McBroom-Hudson, the Floyd singer said.
“It was originally to be a completely instrumental recording, but I came in last December and sang on a few tracks.” she added.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 9th, 2014.
This new collection will be based on their unreleased album, The Division Bell, which starred guitarist David Gilmour, late keyboardist Richard Wright and drummer Nick Mason. The founding member of the band died in an undisclosed disease in 2008. Polly Samson, the wife of Gilmour the guitarist tweeted: “The album is Rick Wright’s swansong and very beautiful,” reported IANS.
“Work is still in progress, but more details to come at the end of the summer,” Doug Wright, the band’s UK PR company LD Communications, said in a statement. The songs are “mainly ambient and instrumental music” according to a source, reported E! Online.
“The recording did start during The Division Bell sessions [and yes, it was the side project originally titled The Big Spliff that (Pink Floyd drummer) Nick Mason spoke about], which is why there are Richard Wright tracks on it. But David and Nick have gone in and done a lot more since then,” Durga McBroom-Hudson, the Floyd singer said.
“It was originally to be a completely instrumental recording, but I came in last December and sang on a few tracks.” she added.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 9th, 2014.