PINK FLOYD "Obscured By Clouds" 1972 UK 1st PRESS A1/B1
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Jun 9, 2011
Sold Date
May 30, 2011
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£ 24
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PINK FLOYD "Obscured By Clouds" 1972 UK 1st PRESS A1/B1
GRAM CO TEXT, TEXTURED G&L COVER, SENSATIONAL SOUND
PINK FLOYDObscured By Clouds (Music from 'LA VALLEE')
ORIGINAL UK HARVEST (SHSP 4020) FIRST PRESSING (June 1972) OF PINK FLOYD'S GORGEOUS "Obscured By Clouds" LP - BASED ON THEIR SOUNDTRACK TO BARBET SCHROEDER'S FILM "La Vallee"
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 QUALITY HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL (very thick and chunky) WHICH DELIVERS ABSOLUTELY 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/MP and 2/RR
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: Clean, bright and unmarked labels with moderate spindles - EXCELLENT
VINYL Visual: The vinyl surfaces retain their original deep sheen with just a few light and superficial marks - these have no audio consequence - the playback is superb - EXCELLENT+
VINYL Audio: The audio is absolutely sensational throughout - beautifully deep, rich and detailed. As usual Pink Floyd's soundscapes cover an amazing dynamic range with crystal clear, strong and vibrant audio reproduction and this first pressing has a tremendous warm bass response (note the deep bass synth on the opening track).
On playback at a loud volume (which is how I always listen to my records prior to listing - and it's always a great pleasure to return to this one) there are no major audio issues of note - no scratches, no prominent surface noise (rare for this pressing with its many quiet passages) and only the occasional click/pop (nothing continuous, I counted about 4 clicks on"When You're In" but that's just about it). This is a very clean pressing which is critically and conservatively graded a strong EXCELLENT+ for audio
SLEEVE: 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 - EXCELLENT
The Harvest inner bag is also in great condition - clean and unmarked with no splits (just some discolouration caused by the glue used to fix the internal poly lining) - EXCELLENT
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