[2][5] The track selection includes several Pink Floyd songs, in addition to Gilmour's solo works.

[3][4] Guest appearances are made by Floyd colleague Richard Wright, as well as Robert Wyatt and Bob Geldof.

[1][3] It includes the first performance of "Smile",[2][4] a track that would appear almost five years later on Gilmour's third solo album, On an Island.

[2][3][4] Also included is "Je crois entendre encore" ("I still believe I hear") – an aria from Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers)[6] – with a libretto by Eugène Cormon and Michel Carré.

Then, after I figured out which ones would work with the instrumentation I had in mind, I spent about three months fiddling around in my home studio mocking up the arrangements.