The Nile Song
| The Nile Song | |
|---|---|
| Pink Floyd | |
| publication | July 27, 1969 |
| length | 3:26 |
| Genre (s) | Hard rock , psychedelic rock |
| text | Roger Waters |
| music | Roger Waters |
| album | More |
The Nile Song (dt .: The Nile song can) is a piece of music from the published 1969 album More , the soundtrack to the accompanying film , the British music group Pink Floyd . The band played with David Gilmour (guitar and vocals), Roger Waters (bass) and Nick Mason (drums). Keyboardist Richard Wright is missing from the recording. It is the second track on the album and was released as a single together with the musically similar Ibiza-Bar .
The piece, which depicts the encounter between a man and a woman on the Nile, is very hard and powerfully orchestrated for the band's standards and can be seen as a forerunner of the heavy metal genre.
The Nile Song was not played live after its release and was later not included in the band's program or that of the individual band members on their solo tours; The title was only played at concerts of Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets (from May 2018).
In 1993 the title was covered by the Canadian metal band Voivod on their album The Outer Limits .
literature
- Andy Mabbett: The Complete Guide to the Music of Pink Floyd , London, Omnibus (1995), ISBN 0-7119-4301-X .