Pink Floyd's New Album To Be Released After 20 Years

Finally, the market excitement is beginning to pick up again, with Pink Floyd announcing details of its new album, "The Endless River," which will be out in the market on Nov. 10, 2014. After "The Division Bell" was released in 1994, this the first one to bridge the gap of 20 years.

This one is a "four-sided instrumental album," though one track, "Louder Than Words," has lyrics by David Gilmour's wife, Polly Samson. It all started when Gilmour and Floyd drummer Nick Mason went through music they recorded with Rick Wright, keyboardist, who passed away in 2008. For 20 hours, the three of them played together and chose music for the new album, Gilmour said. The creation is described as a "tribute" to Rick Wright, Pink Floyd's keyboardist, who died in 2008. The work features his contributions from 1993 sessions of "The Division Bell" album, which have been enhanced by David Gilmour and Nick Mason.

In the last one year, they added a few parts, re-recorded some more and used shards of studio technology to make a new Pink Floyd album for the 21^st century. As Rick has passed away, Gilmour felt that it is important that "these revisited and reworked tracks should be made available as part of our repertoire," according to The Independent. The record amplifies Rick's contribution, as well as his value. "Listening back to the sessions, it really brought home to me what a special player he was," Gilmour said.

After their worldwide stadium tour to promote "The Division Bell," they had merged with Roger Waters in 2005. But Waters isn't involved with "The Endless River" and the group hasn't announced any plans to have any live work to hold up the album.

Now a teenage Egyptian artist has been chosen to continue their lineage by creating a memorable image to accompany the rock legends' surprise return. Ahmed Emad Eldin, an 18-year-old, hitherto unknown Egyptian digital artist, has provided the imagery of a man punting on a "river" of clouds towards the glow of the sun. Storm Thorgerson, the graphic designer whose strange and surreal covers promoted Floyd's classic albums strongly, passed away last year, which provoked the team to hunt for a new designer. Aubrey Powell, Thorgerson's partner, had discovered Eldin. Powell said that Ahmed's image had a Floydian touch to it. The enigma and openness work very well for the album, according to her.

Eldin belongs to Jeddah, and started to explore as a digital artist even at the age of 13. Today, he is in Cairo. He told The Independent that he had been contacted by a creative agency , which had checked his work online. Eldin replied through e-mail, and described his design in the following manner: "Thinking about life and nature and what is beyond the world of charming factors we have never seen is enough to create millions of different amazing feelings." His artwork got exhibited on an 8m illuminated cube installation on the South Bank. Images of the sleeve art were also displayed in prime spots in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Berlin and Milan.

The 197 album - "The Dark Side of the Moon" cover is considered by some as the "greatest album sleeve of all time." Thorgerson went on to create the "burning man" cover for "Wish You Were Here" (1975) and "Animals," (1977) which showed an "inflatable pig floating over Battersea power station."