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Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Pink Floyd-"Wish You Were Here" (1975)

In 1975 Pink Floyd released "Wish You Were Here", the ninth album chronologically and the one that would rise the fastest to number one on the charts on both sides of the Atantic, it would also be the first to have the collaboration of musicians outside the band as was the singer-songwriter Roy Harper.
Conceived as a conceptual work during its recording, several very significant events occurred, the first would be when Syd Barrett would appear unexpectedly while the band was in the middle of recording, something that was essential for Roger Waters to rethink the entire subsequent recording process.
Another fact was the difficulties that the new sound engineer Brian Humphries had when he did not know well the recording methods of Abbey Road Studios.
Before being published "Wish you Were Here" had behind it the ballast of a masterpiece like "The Dark Side Of The Moon", which partly overshadowed this album (at least at the beginning), also the fact that that Alan Parsons was not the sound engineer was taken with some doubts, however, the album does not lose an iota of freshness for it.
Musically this album brings textures and harmonies more typical of space rock than of more linear progressive rock and there are even approaches to jazz at very specific moments.
Highlighting any song in this monumental album is unnecessary since it is a work that must be heard in full in one sitting without defining or evaluating any cut over another.

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