" Echoes " is a composition by Pink Floyd including fully expanded instrumental sections, continuous sound effects, and music improvisation. Written in 1970 by the four members of the group, "Echoes" gave an expanded ending to Pink Floyd Meddle album. The track has a running time of 23:31 and consists of all the second sides of the tape and cassette recordings.
It also appears in short form as the fifth song on a compilation album that takes its name, Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd . The composition was originally collected from separate fragments, and then divided into two parts to function both as opening and closing numbers in the film band Live at Pompeii. The song was used to open the 1987 A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour after not playing for more than a decade, but has retired again after 11 gigs. It was revived for Gilmour's 2006 On an Island Tour, where it performed at every show. Live version released on Gilmour album Live in Gda? Sk and Remember That Night .
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Structure
The "echo" begins with a tone played repeatedly on the electric piano. A single note is followed by several notes on the piano, along with some atmosphere in the background. The piano note is added to the introductory section as the section progresses. At 1:09, guitars and organs come in, and some drums come in at 1:51. Then at 2:58 pm, the first lyrics in the song came, along with some drums, electric piano, electric guitar and bass. After the first four verses and the first two choruses are sung, the instrumental part comes with a violin type instrument along the instrument already played. Also in this section, blues guitar solos are played. At 7:02, the track actually turned into a session-like clock voice. This section has a steady drumbeat, along with organ and bass guitars creating backing beat with other blues guitar solos on it. Finally, some supporting guitars join drums, organs and bass while the guitar above continues to play solo. Crowds can be heard very faintly in the background of this section. At 10:39, part of the jam session begins to fade into the next pert of the track. This section of the track is completely ambient, with winds like sounds and high-pitched electronic sounds, as well as several different sound effects. At around 14:45, the atmosphere began to fade and the synthesizer came along with the electric piano notes from the start, followed by some cryptic cymbal action. Some faint guitars then enter, and the pattern of the synthesizer becomes a two-note pattern instead of a single note (like an electric piano). This section is basically a buildup to the next section as it continues with several other instruments until 18:14, where the next part of the track begins, with some guitar playing on the drum of the last section. Then comes another shorter buildup, until 19:11, where the rest of the song lyrics are sung with drums from the previous and electric pianos and other organs, then another Instrumental section comes and stays until the end. In the last minute of the song, the instrumentation disappears, and then appears in the chorus sound segment with a faded electric piano, then disappears at the very end of the song.
Each verse of the song follows a three-byte pattern.
This composition uses a lot of progressive and unconventional musical effects. The ping sounds that were heard at the beginning of the song were made as a result of an experiment early in the Meddle session. It is produced through a reinforcing grand piano, played by Richard Wright, and sends signals through speakers Leslie and Binson Echorec.
David Gilmour used a slide guitar for a particular sound effect on a studio recording and for introduction in live performances from 1971 to 1975. The throbbing sound like the wind created by Roger Waters thrilled his bass guitar strings with a steel slide and fed the signal through Echorec. The high-pitched "screams" of electronics, resembling distorted seagulls, were invented by Gilmour when the cables were accidentally flipped over the pedal. After observing the song he made, Nick Mason noted: "The sound of the guitar in the middle of 'Echoes' was accidentally created by David putting the wah-wah pedal back forward.Sometimes a great effect is the result of this pure type, serendipity, and we're always ready to see if something might work on the track.The foundation we've received from Ron Geesin outside the manual has left traces. "Harmonic" whistles "can be heard generated by Richard Wright pulling certain drawbars in and out of Hammond's organ. The castle was added to the music from the recording archive recordings (as has been done for some previous songs, including "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun"). The second half of the song, in which Gilmour plays muted music on the guitar above Wright slowly builds the solo Farfisa organ, inspired by the Beach Boys song "Good Vibrations".
The "choir" segment at the end of the song was made by placing two tape recorders in the opposite corners of a room; the main chord tapes of the song were then inserted into one recorder and played back while at the same time recording. Other recorders are then also ready to play what is being recorded; this creates a delay between the two recordings, greatly affecting the chord structure while at the same time giving the feel of "wet" and "echo". This produces a Shepard tone.
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Composition
Pieces have genesis in a collection of separate musical experiments written by the band, some of which have been left over from previous sessions. The group then arranges the pieces to create a coherent 23 minute piece originally referred to as "None, Sections 1-24". Not all parts are used for finished tracks, and out-takes includes saying backwards sentences, so it will sound true but strange when the tape is reversed. The ongoing ongoing work record is labeled "No Child" and "Return of the Child Not Available"; the latter title was eventually used to introduce unreleased work during his first live performance in early 1971. The studio recording was shared between Abbey Road Studios, Morgan Studios and AIR Studios in London; the latter two are used because they have a 16-track recorder, which makes assembling individual components of songs much easier.
In an interview in 2008 with Mojo when asked who had compiled "Echoes", Wright stated he had composed a long intro piano and a major chord progression of the song. In the same interview he asserted that Waters wrote the lyrics. During its development stage, the first verse of the song is not finished. This initially refers to meeting two celestial bodies. The first verse originally took the words of Muhammad Iqbal's poem "Two Planets", and then this was rewritten with the incorporation of the original underwater image instead.
The title "Echoes" also underwent significant revisions before and after the release of Meddle : Waters, a loyal soccer fan, proposed that the band call his new song "We Won the Double" in the 1971 Arsenal Victory celebration, and during a 1972 tour in Germany he cheerfully introduced it on two consecutive nights as "Seeing Through the Knothole at Grandma's Wooden Feet" (reference to The Goon Show) and The Dam Busters >, respectively.
Live show
Pink Floyd first performed "Echoes" at Norwich Lads Club on April 22, 1971. It was a regular part of the band that was formed for a concert at Knebworth Park on July 5, 1975.
The song was performed for Live at Pompeii , where it was divided into two parts to open and close the movie. The 1974 and 1975 shows featured backing vocals by Venetta Fields and Carlena Williams and a solo saxophone by Dick Parry instead of a guitar solo in the 1971-73 show (apart from the first show of the 1975 US tour, where Gilmour did his first mid-solo then gave way to Parry sax).
This was done eleven times in the 1987 band A Minutes of Reason on a world tour, in a slightly rearranged version trimmed to 17 minutes. It then falls because the band is not happy with the show.
Gilmour revived the song on the 2006 tour On i Island as the closing number of the main set. She sings the low parts along with Wright, while keyboardist Jon Carin tour sings the higher part. Wright will take Farfisa out of retirement just for this song for the tour. The show appeared on Gilmour's Remember That Night DVD/Blu-ray and Live in Gda? Sk album/DVD.
Gilmour told Rolling Stone in 2016 after returning to Pompeii to play a solo show that he would be happy to do "Echoes" but felt he could not do it without Wright, who had died in 2008 - "There something that's particularly individualistic about how Rick and I play in that, that you can not get someone to learn it and just do it. "
Reception
In a review for Meddle's Jean-Charles Costa album from Rolling Stone gave "Echoes" positive reviews. Costa described "Echoes" as the "Pink floyd aural extravaganza 23 minutes that took up all two sides, recaptured, within the framework of new music, some old themes and melodic lines from previous albums." Costa continued: "All this plus the funky organ-bass-drum segment and a stunning Gilmour solo adds up to a nice big electronic outlay."
Echoes and 2001: A Space Odyssey synchronization rumor
Similar to the Dark Side effect of the Rainbow, great rumors suggest that "Echoes" coincidentally synchronized with the 1968 Stanley Kubrick 2001 film: A Space Odyssey, when played simultaneously with the last 23-minute segment entitled "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite ". At the time of film production in 1967-1968, Pink Floyd did not work on any material suitable for the film, or whether they were contacted about the provision of music. It is likely that Kubrick never heard the band's music until after the movie was over.
The 1973 movie Greenbound Crystal Voyager ended with a 23-minute segment where the full version of "Echoes" accompanied a montage of images taken by Greenough from a camera mounted on his back while surfing on his kneeboard..
Suspected plagiarism
In an interview promoting Amused to Death, Waters claims that Andrew Lloyd Webber has plagiarized the riffs of "Echoes" for sections of the Phantom of the Opera musical; However, he decided not to file a lawsuit on the matter. He says:
Yes, the beginning of the bloody song Phantom it comes from Echoes . * DAAAA-da-da-da-da-da *. I can not believe it when I hear it. This is the same time signature - it's 12/8 - and it's the same structure and it's the same note and it's all the same. Bastard. That might be actionable. It is true! But I guess it's too long to struggle to sue Andrew to make love to Lloyd Webber.
cover version
British musician Ewan Cunningham closed "Echoes" in a YouTube video showing him playing all his own parts. The cover is strongly based on the Live at Pompeii version and continues to receive praise from Nick Mason. British electronics project Banco de Gaia includes "Echoes" on their 2009 album Memories Dreams Reflections.
Personnel
- David Gilmour - main vocal (low harmony), electric guitar, sound effects Richard Wright - lead vocals (high harmony), grand piano (via Leslie 145 speakers), Hammond organs, Farfisa organs, sound effects
- Roger Waters - bass guitar, sliding bass, sound effects
- Nick Mason - drums, percussion, sound effects
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External links
- What is Pink Floyd Meddle with 2001?
- Lyrics of this song in MetroLyrics
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