Unknown Song

"Unknown Song"
Instrumental by Pink Floyd
from the album Zabriskie Point
Released	1997
Recorded	1969
Genre	Instrumental rock, progressive rock
Length	6:01
Label	MCA
Songwriters	David Gilmour Rick Wright Nick Mason Roger Waters

"Unknown Song" is an instrumental track written and recorded by the British progressive rock group Pink Floyd. ^[1] 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 .

Music

The track is simple and consists of melodies that were used later; the riff that starts to play at 1:54 is a faster tempo version of the "Funky Dung" section of "Atom Heart Mother Suite". The main melody played by acoustic 12-string guitar throughout the song is somewhat typical to the band's later style – "A Pillow of Winds" or even "Brain Damage" can be heard as followers of the song's melodies.^{[ citation needed ]}

Other names

"Unknown Song" is sometimes called "Rain in the Country" or "Country Rain" on bootleg recordings. ^[2] A similar piece entitled "Baby Blue Shuffle in D Major" appeared in a 2 December 1968 BBC radio broadcast and shares melodies with part one of "The Narrow Way" from Ummagumma , but it may have been rather a different – or even the same – take of "Unknown Song".^{[ citation needed ]} "Rain in the Country" Take 2 ends in "Crumbling Land", which has similar music. The music of "Country Song/The Red Queen Theme" Take 1 is also similar. A similar instrumental is named "Love Scene" Ver 7 in The Early Years 1965–1972: Devi/ation .

See also

• Crumbling Land
• Country Song/The Red Queen Theme

References

1. Mabbett, Andy (1995). The Complete Guide to the Music of Pink Floyd. London: Omnibus Press. ISBN   0-7119-4301-X.
2. Trax and recordings > Unreleased Pink Floyd material > Rain in the Country, The Pink Floyd Hyperbase. Denmark.