Sealed Sale...Pink Floyd Obscured By Clouds

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On Harvest, ST-11078.  Sealed.  Shrink wrap has is torn but the cover is not affected.  This is you chance to be the first to play this classic Floyd soundtrack.  Low starting bid and we will go from there.  I will only to Canada, the USA and to England.  Shipping outside the US will be greater than the standard $4.00.  I will group albums at $1.00 additional to a limit of 3 albums total. Good Luck!

Because the album was so hard to identify. the manufacturer attached a sticker to the front shrink. The sticker identifies (Pink Floyd), (La Valee) which was the French movie about "sexual freedon, mind altering drugs and the pursuit of paradise in New Ginea" and at the top, in small printing, (Obscured by Clouds) which was the actual name of the album. The small printing at the bottom is the (ST-11078). There is also the original circular sale sticker on the back shrink from Pearl Valley Discs LTD and the original price of $4.99.

At this point in their career, the band were not new to scoring movies. They had already scored the films The Committee in 1968 and More in 1969.

The band were already working on The Dark Side of the Moon during this period, 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."[4]

"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' father.[citation needed]

In a snippet of interview footage that appeared in the 1974 theatrical version (later released on VHS and Laserdisc) and subsequent "Director's Cut DVD" versions of Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, Roger Waters stated that early UK pressings of the album contained excessive sibilance (a loud high-frequency sound most apparent on "s", "sh", and "t" sounds which often causes distortion.) As Waters says in the film, the sibilant distortion was caused by "a bad cut", meaning it came from a poor quality tape to disk transfer during mastering. The sibilance problem was corrected in later pressings.

Obscured by Clouds was the second Pink Floyd album to feature the VCS 3 synthesiser as stated by EMS Archives.