Nick Mason- Unattended Luggage [3 CD, 2018/FLAC]

 

Former Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has released a solo box set, Unattended Luggage, on 2018, Aug. 31.

The collection includes 1981’s Fictitious Sports, 1985’s Profiles – which features his old bandmate David Gilmour – and the 1987 movie soundtrack White of the Eye.

“These recordings hold a very special place for me in my musical life," Mason said in a statement. "Fictitious Sports developed initially from working with Mike Mantler, Carla Bley and Robert Wyatt on a couple of their projects, and benefited enormously from a whole crew of great musicians that I was introduced to by them at Grog Kill Studios in Woodstock. Profiles and White of the Eye were an extension of working with Rick Fenn on some advertising and short documentary film soundtracks, which then developed into something more."

Mason said after hearing the tracks 30 years later, he's "delighted they are getting the reissue treatment. I’m rather hoping that sales will be sufficient to damage the market in the original rare vinyl versions!”

Pink Floyd - La Carrera Panamericana (DVD 5 + OST/FLAC)

 La Carrera Panamericana is a 1992 video of the Carrera Panamericana automobile race in Mexico. The film was directed by Ian McArthur, and included a soundtrack entirely of music by the band Pink Floyd, as the band's guitarist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason and manager Steve O'Rourke competed in the race in 1991. The film had been broadcast on BBC2 on 24 December 1991.

During the course of the race, Gilmour crashed, and while he was unharmed, Steve O'Rourke (his map-reader and Pink Floyd's manager) suffered a broken leg. Mason finished eighth overall with his co-driver, English auto racer Valentine Lindsay. 

The music is a combination of previously released Pink Floyd material (re-edited into a soundtrack) and material composed for the video. The tracks composed for the video are the first studio recordings made after Richard Wright re-joined the band in 1990. The new studio recordings were produced by Gilmour and engineered by Andy Jackson. The songs "Pan Am Shuffle" and "Carrera Slow Blues" are notable as the first tracks co-written by Wright since 1975's Wish You Were Here, as well as the first co-written by Mason since 1973's The Dark Side of the Moon.

A soundtrack album was not released, but the tracks are available on the A Tree Full of Secrets bootleg recording.

All tracks written by David Gilmour, except where noted.

Previously recorded

•     "Signs of Life" (Gilmour/Ezrin) – 4:24
•     "Yet Another Movie" (Gilmour/Leonard) – 6:13
•     "Sorrow" – 8:46
•     "One Slip" (Gilmour/Manzanera) – 5:08
•     "Run Like Hell (live)" (Gilmour/Waters) – 0:49

Original material

New material was recorded at Olympic Studios in November 1991.

•     "Country Theme" – 2:01
•     "Small Theme" – 7:23
•     "Big Theme" – 4:10
•     "Carrera Slow Blues" (Gilmour/Wright/Mason) – 2:20
•     "Mexico '78" – 4:05
•     "Pan Am Shuffle" (Gilmour/Wright/Mason) – 8:09