PINK FLOYD Obscured By Clouds 1972 UK HARVEST 1st PRESSING A1/B1
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Apr 28, 2014 Sold Date
Apr 18, 2014 Start Date
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PINK FLOYD Obscured By Clouds 1972 UK HARVEST 1st PRESSING A1/B1

GRAM CO TEXT, TEXTURED G&L COVER, SENSATIONAL SOUND

PINK FLOYD
Obscured By Clouds (Music from 'LA VALLEE')

UK HARVEST (SHSP 4020) FIRST PRESSING (June 1972) OF PINK FLOYD'S "Obscured By Clouds" LP
THEIR SOUNDTRACK TO BARBET SCHROEDER'S FILM "La Vallee"

PRESSED ON HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL (156g) 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 LABELS WITH "THE GRAMOPHONE CO LTD..." RIM TEXT
MARTIX: SHPS 4020 A-1 / SHPS 4020 B-1 (all heavily machine stamped)
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 PLAIN WHITE INNER SLEEVE WITH "MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN" AND "PATENT Nos 1,125,555" PRINTED IN GREY

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+
The labels are clean and unmarked with a few light spindle traces on Side Two, but barely any on Side One
VINYL Visual: EXCELLENT
Both vinyl surfaces retain their original deep glossy sheen - a couple of superficial circular marks are visible - these are audibly insignificant
VINYL Audio: EXCELLENT
Sensational sound 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 and "Free Four") and my play-check at loud volume found little to fault - just an odd light tick and touch of surface between a couple of the tracks and on the quiet fade-in to "Childhood's End" (nothing really)
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 where all text is clear and bold. A fine example of this delicate sleeve

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UK: FREE (2nd Class Recorded Delivery)
UK: £9.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £14.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £17.00 (International Signed For delivery)

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