Pink Floyd's Richard Wright, forgotten genius?

All the interviews on this site make me wonder whether someone was working on a documentary film at some point. It's interesting to hear the perspectives of collaborators like Manzanera and Anthony Moore, who are sort of tangential to the conventional Pink Floyd story.

I'm puzzled, though, why there aren't any pages specifically about his solo albums. I guess there are fan sites that have that information, but it seems disrespectful somehow to deal with his work so obliquely. Incidentally, it seems that the Zee album was reissued last year as Identity 2019, credited to Wright and Harris. Despite the "new" title, it seems to be the original album with bonus tracks.

I only recently discovered Wet Dream, it's a really good record and probably has more of the flavors that make Pink Floyd great than anything Gilmour or Wright ever did separately.

yeah I think Wet Dream has aged well - when I was a teenager it seemed unlistenably smooth but 2020 ears are much more forgiving - lyrically there’s a sense of someone with not much to say making a solo album because “the others are”, but I guess I find that charming now as well! and yep there’s plenty of lovely Floydy chord sequences (& high end production)

heh I just posted abt that record today

Pink Floyd - Animals (Poll and discussion thread)

Full 80min interview unearthed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URbiyWY-szY

Details on the reissue of Wet Dream, obligatory Steven Wilson remix, etc.
https://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/richard-wright-wet-dream-reissue-with-steven-wilson-remix-release-de.html

When "balearic" was originally described to me, my first thought was, "Oh, like Richard Wright's Wet Dream record?"

All I've ever really known about this record is that he recorded it while he was on vacation or living in the Mediterranean -- something the pool suggests. I remember listening to it and hoping it would sound like the synths on DSOTM/WYWH/Animals, with his pillowy "Summer '68" vocals and being mostly disappointed.