PINK FLOYD Obscured By Clouds 1970s UK HARVEST - NM TEXTURED SLEEVE - NM VINYL
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£ 38
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Aug 12, 2016
Sold Date
Aug 2, 2016
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£ 36
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PINK FLOYD Obscured By Clouds 1970s UK HARVEST - NM TEXTURED SLEEVE - NM VINYL
PINK FLOYDObscured By Clouds
UK HARVEST (SHSP 4020) MID 1970s PRESSING OF PINK FLOYD'S SOUNDTRACK TO BARBET SCHROEDER'S FILM "La Vallee"
THE HARVEST LABELS CARRY THE "EMI RECORDS..." RIM TEXT (used between 1974 and 1978)
MARTIX: SHPS 4020 A-2 / SHPS 4020 B-2
MOTHERS/STAMPERS: 1/LT and 2/GGT
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL DELICATE, TEXTURED, ROUNDED CORNER SLEEVE "Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd." WITH 'PINCHED' TOP AND BOTTOM SPINE
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL EMI INNER SLEEVE WITH ALL PRINTING IN BLUE
At this point in their career, Pink Floyd were not new to scoring movies. They had already scored the films More and Zabriskie Point in 1969 and 1970 respectively.
The band were already working on The Dark Side of the Moon, but production was interrupted when the band travelled to France to score the movie.
Nick Mason refers to the project:
"After the success of More, we had agreed to do another sound track for Barbet Schroeder. His new film was called La Vallée and we travelled over to France to record the music in the last week of February... We did the recording with the same method we had employed for More, following a rough cut of the film, using stopwatches for specific cues and creating interlinking musical moods that would be cross-faded to suit the final version... The recording time was extremely tight. We only had two weeks to record the soundtrack with a short amount of time afterwards to turn it into an album."
While recording the music, the band were free to use "standard rock song construction" to their advantage, and such was the case for "Obscured by Clouds". The title track featured an early use of electronic drums, or "electric bongos" as Mason calls them. Rick Wright foreshadows what is to come later with his use of synthesisers on this album. A droning note (played on an EMS VCS3 synthesiser) begins the album. This song was often used to open their live shows in the following years. The band also used themes to their advantage. The melody played in "Burning Bridges" is echoed later in "Mudmen". The song "Childhood's End" is said to have been inspired by Arthur C. Clarke's novel of the same name.
"Free Four" was the first Pink Floyd song to get significant airplay in the U.S., and the first to deal directly with the death of Eric Fletcher Waters, Roger Waters's father
Side 1:
Obscured By Clouds
When You're In
Burning Bridges
Gold It's In The...
Wot's... Uh The Deal
Mudmen
Side 2:
Childhood's End
Free Four
Stay
Absolutely Curtains
LABELS: EXCELLENT+
Clean, unmarked labels with light/moderate spindle traces
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Both surfaces shine like new
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Sensational sound throughout - beautifully deep, rich and finely detailed with crystal clear, strong and vibrant audio reproduction - tremendously warm bass response (note the gorgeous deep bass synth on the title track and "Free Four") and my play-check at loud volume found little to fault - exceptionally clean - just an odd one-off light tick noted - absolutely nothing - very highly recommended indeed
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
Crisp, clean and unmarked - all spine text is clear and bold - one soft crease to the bottom corner - nothing really - just about as good as it gets
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC INNER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: FREE (2nd class standard)
UK: £9.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £14.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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