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La Carrera Panamericana

VHS cover of La Carrera Panamericana
Directed by Ian McArthur
Produced by Ian McArthur
Steve O'Rourke
Starring David Gilmour
Nick Mason
Music by Pink Floyd
Distributed by Sony Music Video (SMV) Enterprises
Release date(s) June 2, 1992
Running time 65 min.
Language English
Preceded by Delicate Sound of Thunder (1988)
Followed by Pulse (1994)

La Carrera Panamericana is a 1992 video of the Carrera Panamericana automobile race in Mexico. The film included a soundtrack entirely of music by the band Pink Floyd, as the band's guitarist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason and manager Steve O'Rourke competed in the race in 1991.

David Gilmour in a break during the "Carrera Panamericana", in San Luis Potosi, Mexico

During the course of the race Gilmour crashed, and while he was unharmed, O'Rourke (his map-reader and Pink Floyd's manager) suffered a broken leg. Mason finished sixth overall with his co-pilot, English auto racer Valentine Lindsay.

The music is a combination of previously released 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 1988. The new studio recordings were produced by Gilmour. The songs "Pan Am Shuffle" and "Carrera Slow Blues" are notable as the first tracks co-written by Wright since 1975's Wish You Were Here, as well as the first co-written by Mason since 1973's The Dark Side of the Moon.

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

Contents

Track listing

Previously recorded

Original material

  • "Country Theme" (Gilmour)
  • "Small Theme" (Gilmour)
  • "Big Theme" (Gilmour)
  • "Carrera Slow Blues" (Gilmour/Wright/Mason)
  • "Mexico '78" (Gilmour)
  • "Pan Am Shuffle" (Gilmour/Wright/Mason)

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