PINK FLOYD Atom Heart Mother RARER UK 1973 HARVEST QUAD ISSUE + INNER. NICE COPY

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Artist or Band: THE PINK FLOYD

Album Title: Atom Heart Mother

Producers: Pink Floyd with Norman Smith

Engineers: Alan Parsons and Peter Bown

TRACK LIST:

Side 1: Atom Heart Mother (a) Father’s Shout; (b) Breast Milky (c) Mother Fore; (d) Funky Dung; (e) Mind Your Throats Please; (f) Remergence.

Side 2: If; Sumer 68; Fat Old Sun; Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast (a) Rise and Shine; (b) Sunny Side Up; (c) Morning Glory.

Label/Format: Harvest with the SQ ‘Quadraphonic’ text and catalogue number. These have matt, gently textured surfaces.

Label Conditions: Both very clean and fresh with any spindle traces tiny and very faint. Side one has adhesion crinkle, purely in manufacture near the rim in places.

Catalogue Number: Q4SHVL 781

Mode / Speed: Quadraphonic (fully compatible with stereo cartridges and equipment) / 33.3 rpm.

Warps: Few vintage records are ever perfectly ‘flat’, so some slight or very gentle arm movement is normal. If any record I offer has more than that, I will mention it, and it can be assumed all I offer should track without issues, even on budget turntables.

Lateral Movement (Side-to-Side): Barely a trace.

Weight of this Record: 116 grams.

Country of Manufacture: England

Rarity: Scarce in this mode. ‘Quad’ records were specialised and few, especially in the UK had four-channel decoders for these records. So these were made in very small numbers to cater for quad enthusiasts. These records play perfectly fine on standard stereo equipment and some do offer slightly different mix variation and detail, so some fans and completists of the major albums and bands seek these elusive quad mix albums.

Original Year of Release: 1970 [the UK quadraphonic mix was issued in 1973]

Matrix Nos: QHVL 781 A-2 / QHVL 781 B-3

Mothers / Stampers: 1 T / 1 GD

Musicians: David Gilmour – guitars; bass guitar, drums, vocals; Roger Waters – bass guitar, acoustic guitar, tape effects, tape collage, vocals; Richard Wright – keyboards, piano, orchestration, vocals; Nick Mason – drums, percussion, tape editing, tape collage. Guest musicians and vocalists: John Aldiss Choir – vocals; Ron Geesin – orchestration; Alan Stiles – voice on ‘Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast’; Philip Jones Brass Ensemble; Abbey Road Session Pops Orchestra – brass and orchestral sections.

Brief Artist & Album Info: Arguably Pink Floyd’s most underrated and often under-appreciated work, ‘Atom Heart Mother’ was a brave experimental piece. Partially written with avant-garde composer, Ron Geesin and produced by Norman Smith and beautifully engineered by Alan Parsons. It featured the first in a series of impressive album covers, designed by the Hipgnosis studio, none of which featured photographs of the band on the front. The album’s first side is taken up with the title track broken down into six segments. Brass, choir, strings and sound effects are used throughout including a high powered motorbike near the beginning which roars from speaker to speaker, also horses and a high-speed train – all interesting for the audiophile listener. But away from effects, the epic track stands alone as a superb piece of work, it remains a favourite of mine within the Pink Floyd catalogue. Uncommercial and a little out-there, exactly the sound I preferred from this band. Side two offers four songs, the first three gentle more familiar period pieces. ‘Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast’ is pretty strange however – a ‘Full English’ with a difference. A highly challenging record with so many quiet passages, many early copies written-off from less-than-worthy, basic record players of the time. Few, if any who bought this quad version would have subjected it to record players like that, and this copy appears hardly played. This record well pressed with little to fault, this too on a record with significant quiet passages. There are subtle variations in the sound and mix compared to the standard stereo version, I found a little more open and detailed. Indeed it seems some fans prefer this quad mix over the stereo version. I have never owned the decoder for analogue equipment, so my play-grade was purely done in stereo. For sure it’s a copy I played and enjoyed without the usual, often major issues so many copies have. Like most of the Pink Floyd catalogue, this is a challenging album for vinyl and finding very clean examples difficult.

Cover Grade and Format: EXCELLENT: an unlaminated gatefold format with matt, smooth surfaces. This has the correct quadraphonic catalogue number on the spine and inside the gatefold, no logo on the front. Printed and made in England, uncredited. Includes the SQ quadraphonic sound text inner sleeve.

Cover Front: One of the most famous covers within the Pink Floyd catalogue, and in the rock genre as well. It is very wear-prone and seldom seen this attractive. This front is clean, fresh and attractive with little to fault. Minimal traces of edge creasing with lovely unfaded deep colour. Any marks or blemishes few and faint with no sticker issues.

Cover Back: Overall, very similar again with any rim impression gentle and faint. A crease on the top right corner but hardly any others.

Cover Inner Gatefold: Superb with barely anything to fault, the quad text reference clearly seen on the top left corner area.

Top Edges: Both straight, flush and flat with hardly anything to fault.

Bottom Edges: Similar again with possibly the least wear I have seen on these storage edges. A light rub on the back edge towards the right.

Right Edge(s), and Type: Clean and still quite sharp with any thickening light. Record enters on the back edge, all are guaranteed untrimmed or enhanced in any way.

Spine and Text: Quite a thick spine that is still mainly solid, straight with minimal compression, a gentle hint of right tilt near the bottom being critical. Folded square, so the edges meet up very closely together and parallel. There is minimal wear or ageing to the vulnerable edge, any traces of rubbing very patchy and light on the bottom fold with practically all text intact and strong as-seen. The surface avoiding fading and ageing, overall this is still impressive.

Corners: Any tip rubs small and light with very fine to excellent shape retained with no knocks.

Cover Summary: One of rock’s most recognisable and famous covers, and seldom seen this nice with only scant clues of age. One that has been cover-protected for most of its time, resulting in the lack of wear even to the most vulnerable areas. This rarer quad version cover should please many collectors and specialist fans.

The Inner Sleeve: EXCELLENT: and only marked down for the usual darkening of the seam area adhesive, this mostly seen on the back near the top open edge. This has one window circle with is crisp and undamaged, the polylining intact and clear. Minimal creasing at all with all edges naturally intact with no repairs. The text describes the quad process for specialist collectors.

Vinyl Condition/Visual Grading: EXCELLENT(+): a very fine visual copy that is very clean with equally fine shine and quite solidly pressed. A copy with minimal plays on all the evidence with any surface marks very light, wispy and faint as seen critically under bright light. No penetrating stylus scratches, viewed in average room light, hardly anything even registers. Visually a super record that should please many collectors.

Album Played For Grading: Yes. [I play ALL records I offer before submitting to Ebay, also the record is played in its entirety unless clearly stated otherwise. I do NOT play snippets or joining grooves to check for sound quality and quietness – I play from the beginning to end via clinically revealing equipment, all listed further down.]

Sound Quality and Audio Grading: This early Pink Floyd classic plays up to and mostly even beyond it’s high visual grading with little to fault. Offering strong, distortion-free sound, all frequencies are sharp and clear – sound quality is very high with a wide dynamic range and very detailed sound. Any surface sounds are minimal and light, overall a clean specialist quad pressing with no tracking issues* or inherent pressing noises. The odd sporadic click or contact trace sound here-and-there to politely remind of what is being played, but few available copies of this far rarer 4-channel pressing will outperform this significantly I feel sure. Any sound variations played on a standard stereo system are subtle, I thought it a little more open and detailed, any opinion on this purely subjective. I am certain this record has been played very lightly and has been generally well stored and carefully handled, almost certainly in a non-smoking environment. Nothing of any real note spoilt my pleasure when play-grading this lovely record. It will prove very difficult to find significantly better and can be strongly recommended.

* As played-graded on a high-end Linn LP12 Sondek turntable with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge tracking at 2 grams. Records are a ‘contact’ format, and few will avoid the odd minor sound blemish.

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