Love Scene (Version 4)
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"Love Scene" is a Pink Floyd
composition for the film Zabriskie Point
. Although it is credited to the whole band, as all Pink Floyd songs on Zabriskie Point´s soundtrack
, "Love Scene (Version 4)" can be seen as Richard Wright
's solo number. The song didn't find its way to the film, nor to the original soundtrack. It was, in any case, released as the final track on the bonus disc of the album's 1997 re-release.
y and contains guitar soloing. In the reissued soundtrack's booklet, David Fricke writes: ""Love Scene-Version 4" is an entirely different approach, a languid exercise in galactic-lounge jazz performed on piano and what sounds like a vibraphone – closer to the Modern Jazz Quartet than A Saucerful of Secrets."
"Love Scene (Version 4)" is one of the instrumental tracks that were candidates to a desert sex episode of the movie. The song that actually played in Zabriskie Point
was a Jerry Garcia
improvisation track featuring edits from his full-length studio improvisations. That song was named "Love Scene" in the original soundtrack release. The 1997 bonus disc features four tracks of Garcia's Love Scene improvisations, two otherwisely unreleased Pink Floyd tracks "Country Song" and "Unknown Song
" plus the two Pink Floyd's Love Scene instrumentals: Version 6
and version 4. According to Fricke, there was also an earlier Pink Floyd version that "is a long blue-water stretch of humming keyboards and guitar dreaming, marked at points by the tidal wash of Mason's cymbals and moments when Gilmour's guitar sounds like a flock of agitated seagulls."
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...
composition for the film Zabriskie Point
Zabriskie Point (film)
Zabriskie Point is a 1970 film by Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, widely noted at the time for its setting in the late 1960s counterculture of the United States...
. Although it is credited to the whole band, as all Pink Floyd songs on Zabriskie Point´s soundtrack
Zabriskie Point (album)
Zabriskie Point is a soundtrack album to the Michelangelo Antonioni film of the same name. It was originally released in January 1970 and is composed of songs from various artists. A 1997 re-release includes four bonus tracks each from Jerry Garcia and Pink Floyd that were used in the film, but not...
, "Love Scene (Version 4)" can be seen as Richard Wright
Richard Wright (musician)
Richard William Wright was an English pianist, keyboardist and songwriter, best known for his career with Pink Floyd. Wright's richly textured keyboard layers were a vital ingredient and a distinctive characteristic of Pink Floyd's sound...
's solo number. The song didn't find its way to the film, nor to the original soundtrack. It was, in any case, released as the final track on the bonus disc of the album's 1997 re-release.
Overview
Consisting only piano, "Love Scene (Version 4)" is very different from the other Floyd songs on this soundtrack. It is among the most minimalist of the songs Wright composed for Pink Floyd. "Love Scene (Version 4)" sounds completely different than "Love Scene (Version 6)", the longer one of the two Floyd Love Scene versions, which is more bluesBlues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
y and contains guitar soloing. In the reissued soundtrack's booklet, David Fricke writes: ""Love Scene-Version 4" is an entirely different approach, a languid exercise in galactic-lounge jazz performed on piano and what sounds like a vibraphone – closer to the Modern Jazz Quartet than A Saucerful of Secrets."
"Love Scene (Version 4)" is one of the instrumental tracks that were candidates to a desert sex episode of the movie. The song that actually played in Zabriskie Point
Zabriskie Point (film)
Zabriskie Point is a 1970 film by Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, widely noted at the time for its setting in the late 1960s counterculture of the United States...
was a Jerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia
Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...
improvisation track featuring edits from his full-length studio improvisations. That song was named "Love Scene" in the original soundtrack release. The 1997 bonus disc features four tracks of Garcia's Love Scene improvisations, two otherwisely unreleased Pink Floyd tracks "Country Song" and "Unknown Song
Unknown Song
"Unknown Song" is an instrumental track written and recorded by the British psychedelic rock group Pink Floyd. It has been released only on a bonus disc included in the 1997 re-release of the soundtrack to Michelangelo Antonioni's movie Zabriskie Point...
" plus the two Pink Floyd's Love Scene instrumentals: Version 6
Love Scene (Version 6)
"Love Scene " is an instrumental jamming song by British progressive rock band Pink Floyd. It has only been released on a bonus disc to a 1997 reissue of the soundtrack album Zabriskie Point. The song is a simple blues instrumental...
and version 4. According to Fricke, there was also an earlier Pink Floyd version that "is a long blue-water stretch of humming keyboards and guitar dreaming, marked at points by the tidal wash of Mason's cymbals and moments when Gilmour's guitar sounds like a flock of agitated seagulls."