PINK FLOYD Obscured By Clouds 1972 UK HARVEST 1st PRESS A1/B1 Nr MINT AUDIO
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£ 64
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Dec 16, 2011
Sold Date
Dec 6, 2011
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PINK FLOYD Obscured By Clouds 1972 UK HARVEST 1st PRESS A1/B1 Nr MINT AUDIO
GRAM CO TEXT, TEXTURED G&L COVER, SENSATIONAL SOUND
PINK FLOYDObscured By Clouds (Music from 'LA VALLEE')
UK HARVEST (SHSP 4020) FIRST PRESSING (June 1972) OF PINK FLOYD'S "Obscured By Clouds" LP - BASED ON THEIR SOUNDTRACK TO BARBET SCHROEDER'S FILM "La Vallee"
THIS COPY HAS SEEN LITTLE PLAY AND SOUNDS WONDERFUL THROUGHOUT WITH A DEEP, RICH and WARM SOUND - PLAYS BEAUTIFULLY
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.
PRESSED ON HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL WHICH DELIVERS SENSATIONAL AUDIO REPRODUCTION (nice strong, loud cut on these first pressings with a fantastic bass response and a very up-front, immediate sound)
THE RECORD HAS THE FIRST ISSUE HARVEST YELLOW/GREEN LABELS WITH "THE GRAMOPHONE CO LTD..." RIM TEXT
MARTIX: SHPS 4020 A-1 / SHPS 4020 B-1
MOTHERS/STAMPERS: 2/OC and ?/RG (no Mother Number is visible)
AND IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL DELICATE, TEXTURED, ROUNDED CORNER SLEEVE "Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd." WITH 'PINCHED' TOP AND BOTTOM SPINE, DATE CODED '7206' (1972, June)
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL HARVEST COMPANY ADVERTISING INNER SLEEVE
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
The labels are bright and unmarked with no real discernible spindle traces but they do have a little "mottling" due to the adhesive used to fix them (please see close-up photos)
VINYL Visual: EXCELLENT
The vinyl surfaces retain their original deep glossy sheen but they display circular hairlines/brush marks which were no doubt caused by a cleaning cloth - these have no audio consequence and the surfaces are otherwise, unmarked
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
The audio is sensational throughout - beautifully deep, rich and finely detailed with crystal clear, strong and vibrant audio reproduction - tremendously warm bass response (note the deep bass synth on the opening track).
My play-check at loud volume revealed no major audio issues of note - no scratches, no prominent surface noise, just a touch on the track divisions (rare for this pressing with its many quiet passages) and no loud clicks or pops - sounds wonderful throughout
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT(+)
The original delicate, textured and rounded corner cover is also in very nice condition with clean, unmarked surfaces and only light rubbing to the top and bottom edges and spine - all text is clear and bold.
A very fine example of this delicate sleeve
INNER SLEEVE: EXCELLENT+
The Harvest inner sleeve is also in great shape with no splits, just some age-related discolouration to the edges
ALL RECORDS ARE PACKAGED WITH THE VINYL OUTSIDE OF THE SLEEVE TO PREVENT ANY 'KNIFING' DURING TRANSIT
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW INNER SLEEVE WITH ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
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