The Art of Communication

The album cover, taken from a postcard included in The Endless River cd/bluray box set

### Artist

Pink Floyd, David Gilmour, Edits made by Nasnandos, assembly by Thatguy

### Length

5 Hours 27 Minutes (4 Hours 16 Minutes excluding bonus tracks)

### Producer

Pink Floyd, David Gilmour, assembled by Thatguy

The Art of Communication is a bootleg assembled by Thatguy, which aimed to combine a bunch of the later years materia from Pink Floyd into one long piece.

### Background

The album was an attempt to combine a significant amount of later years era Pink Floyd material into a big piece, primarily everything after A Momentary Lapse of Reason. Most songs are directly taken from Pink Floyd or bootlegs, however, a few were taken by a Soundcloud user named Nasnandos (go check them out!). A good amount of resources to make this bootleg were given by TomH, who honestly deserves a bigger credit here.

Sources Used

* The Division Bell (1994)
* The Endless River (2014)
	+ The Endless River Bluray
* The Later Years (2019)
* La Carrera Panamericana
* The Art of Tripping, Ruby Takes a Trip and Fractals: Colours of Infinity
* Secret Rarities
* Zabriskie Point
* The Dark Side of the Moon Immersion
* Household Objects

Alongside the album came a 15 pg google doc containing a track by track list with information on edits and credits.

### Tracklist

For the purposes of this track list, albums and lengths will be posted. songs credited to the soundtracks Ruby takes a Trip, The Colours of Infinity, and The Art of Tripping will be abbreviated as RCT.

#### Side 1

* Cluster One (The Division Bell, 5:53)
* Ruby's Blues (RCT, 4:12)
* Thing's Left Unsaid (The Endless River, 4:08)
* It's What We Do (The Endless River, 6:17)
* Ebb and Flow (The Endless River, 1:45)
* What Do You Want From Me (The Division Bell, 4:20)
* Country Theme (La Carrera Panamericana, 1:57)
* Poles Apart (The Division Bell, 7:03)

Side 2

* Mandelbrot 1 (RCT, 3:44)
* Very Strange to Meet You (Secret Rarities, 2:31)
* David's Blues (The Later Years, 4:24)
* Rick's Themes (The Later Years/Endless River Bluray, 3:43)
* Pan Am Shuffle (La Carrera Panamericana, 8:09)
* The Art of Tripping (RCT, 4:07)
* Unsung (The Endless River, 1:06)
* Anisina (The Endless River, 3:09)

Side 3

* Marooned (The Division Bell, 5:29)
* A Great Day for Freedom (The Division Bell, 4:12)
* Small Theme (La Carrera Panamericana, 7:21)
* Big Theme (La Carrera Panamericana, 3:51)
* Evirka A (Endless River Bluray, 5:22)
* Wearing The Inside Out (The Division Bell, 6:48)

Side 4 (The Reflection Sequence)

* Soundscape Segment (A Treefull of Secrets, 2:13)
* Reaction in G (1:01)
* Love Scene Version 4 (Zabriskie Point, 6:42)
* The Travel Sequence (The Dark Side of the Moon Immersion Box Set, 2:15)
* The Violent Sequence (Zabriskie Point, 5:34)
* Wine Glasses (Household Objects, 1:59)
* The Hard Way (Household Objects, 3:06)
* New Signs of Life (Secret Rarities, 3:45)
* Marooned Jam X Marooned Outtake (The Later Years/Secret Rarities, 6:45)
* Anisina #3 (Secret Rarities, 2:44)

Side 5

* Take It Back (The Division Bell/Treefull of Secrets, 6:57)
* Sum (The Endless River, 4:08)
* Skins (The Endless River, 2:26)
* Coming Back to Life (The Division Bell, 6:12)
* Keep Talking (The Division Bell, 6:02)
* The Endless River Side 3
	+ The Lost Art of Conversation (The Endless River, 1:42)
	+ On Noodle Street (The Endless River, 1:41)
	+ Night Light (The Endless River, 1:42)
	+ Allons Y 1 (The Endless River/Endless River Bluray, 4:54)
	+ Autumn 68 (The Endless River, 1:35)
	+ Allons Y 2 (The Endless River/Endless River Bluray, 2:44)
	+ Talkin Hawkin (The Endless River, 2:44)

Side 6

* Blues 1 (The Later Years, 5:24)
* Mexico 78 (La Carrera Panamericana, 4:08)
* Slippery Guitar (The Later Years, 6:35)
* Carrera Slow Blues (La Carrera Panamericana, 2:19)
* Birth Of A Star (Secret Rarities, 1:55)
* TBS 9 (Endless River Bluray, 2:27)
* Ephemeral Warmth (RCT, 3:53)
* Fractals (RCT, 2:48)
* TBS 14 (Endless River Bluray, 4:15)

Side 7

* Calling (The Endless River, 4:26)
* Eyes to Pearls (The Endless River, 1:50)
* Lost For Words (The Division Bell/The Later Years, 6:39)
* Calling 2 (4:31)
* Surfacing (The Endless River, 2:41)
* High Hopes (The Division Bell, 7:38)
* Mandelbrot 2 (RCT, 6:13)
* Louder Than Words (The Endless River, 6:13)
* Nervana (Endless River Bluray, 5:22)

Side 8 (Bonus Tracks)

* Love Scene Versions 4 & 6 (Zabriskie Point, 14:16 )
* The Travel Sequence Extended (Eclipse Tour/Dark Side Immersion, 5:55)
* Evrika A, Wearing the Inside Out, Evrika B (The Division Bell/Endless River Bluray, 17:18)
* Soundscape Full (Treefull of Secrets, 22:07)
* Astronomy Domine (Live) (B side of the Take It Back single, 4:46)
* One Of These Days (Live) (Taken from the High Hopes/Keep Talking Limited edition single, 6:55)