''La Carrera Panamericana'' is a 1992 video of the

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automobile race in

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. The film was directed by Ian McArthur, and included a soundtrack entirely of music by the band

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, as the band's guitarist

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, drummer

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and manager

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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

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auto racer Valentine Lindsay.

Music

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 ''

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'', as well as the first co-written by Mason since 1973's ''

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

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Track listing

All tracks written by

, except where noted.

Previously recorded

*" Signs of Life" (Gilmour/

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) – 4:24 *"

Yet Another Movie "Yet Another Movie" is the sixth track, along with "Round and Around" on Pink Floyd's 1987 album, ''A Momentary Lapse of Reason''. It began as an instrumental piece to which words were later added and features soundbites from the films ''One-Eyed ...

" (Gilmour/

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) – 6:13 *" Sorrow" – 8:46 *"

One Slip "One Slip" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1987 album ''A Momentary Lapse of Reason''. Composition The album gets its title from a line of this song's lyrics. The song was co-written by David Gilmour and Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera, who late ...

" (Gilmour/ Manzanera) – 5:08 *"

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(live)" (Gilmour/ Waters) – 0:49

Original material

New material was recorded at

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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

References

External links

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La Carrera Panamericana ''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 Gilmo ...

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