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The Whispering Wall

album by The Legendary Pink Dots

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2023
Entity authorityQ7774443 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Whispering Wall is a 2004 album by The Legendary Pink Dots.

Track listing

Soft Toy

A Distant Summer

Dominic

In Sickness and in Health

For Sale

King of a Small World

The Region Beyond

06

Peek-A-Boo

The Divide

Sunken Pleasure/Rising Pleasure/No Walls, No Strings

Credits

The Silverman (Phil Knight): keyboards, electronics

Edward Ka-Spel: voice, keyboards

Erik Drost: guitar

Niels Van Hoornblower: saxophone, clarinet

Raymond Steeg: sound wizardry

Engineered by Raymond Steeg and The Legendary Pink Dots

Cover by Poppy K. with thanks to Gladys Easystreet and Ramona Stork.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Whispering Wall” as album by The Legendary Pink Dots. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2004. The account is most persuasive where Whispering, Wall and album can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as album by The Legendary Pink Dots. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q7774443. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

Best used for
  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
Verify next

The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Whispering Wall”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Whispering Wall primary sources, The Whispering Wall archive and Whispering research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “The Whispering Wall”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “The Whispering Wall” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.