"The Nile Song" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Single by Pink Floyd | |||||||||||||||||||||||
from the album Soundtrack from the Film More | |||||||||||||||||||||||
B-side | "Ibiza Bar" (France and New Zealand) "Main Theme" (Japan) |
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Released | March 1969 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Format | 7" single | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Recorded | February 1969 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Length | 3:26 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer(s) | Roger Waters | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Producer(s) | Pink Floyd | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"The Nile Song" is the second song from Pink Floyd's 1969 album, Soundtrack from the Film More. Released as a single in 1969 (only in France, Japan and New Zealand), it was written by Roger Waters and sung by David Gilmour. It is similar to another song on the album Ibiza Bar.
Andy Kellman of Allmusic describes "The Nile Song" as "one of the heaviest songs the band recorded". The chord progression is a series of modulations, beginning at A, and then rising a whole step with each repeat, cycling through six different keys, returning to the starting point of A, and continuing the pattern as the song fades out.
"The Nile Song" was covered by: