Pink Floyd took 2 weeks in the summer of 1972 to record music for another Barbet Schroeder movie called ‘La Vallée’ in France. Like More…La Vallée was a pretty bad movie but the soundtrack which was entitled Obscured By Clouds was excellent and a favourite of many Floyd fans. On their 1973 tour they opened all their shows with Obscured By Clouds/When You’re In….Childhood’s End was only performed a handful of times at the end of 1972…Unfortunately,the only tapes which captured the Floyd performing the song are of horrendous sound quality. So I’m happy to upload this rare gem…Childhood’s End in excellent sound quality. I hope you all enjoy it….

Registrazione della colonna sonora Obscured by clouds avvenuta allo Château d’Hérouville in una settimana, dal 23 febbraio al 29 febbraio. E’ la colonna sonora del film “La Vallée” per la regia di Barbet Schroeder. I brani della colonna sonora sono: Obscured by clouds, When you’re in, Burning bridges, The gold it’s in the…, Wot’s… uh the deal, Mudmen, Childhood’s end, Free four, Stay, Absolutely curtains….

Registrazione della colonna sonora Obscured by clouds avvenuta allo Château d’Hérouville in una settimana, dal 23 febbraio al 29 febbraio. E’ la colonna sonora del film “La Vallée” per la regia di Barbet Schroeder. I brani della colonna sonora sono: Obscured by clouds, When you’re in, Burning bridges, The gold it’s in the…, Wot’s… uh the deal, Mudmen, Childhood’s end, Free four, Stay, Absolutely curtains….

Norman Smith aka Hurricane Smith (22 February 1923 — 3 March 2008) was an English musician and record producer.Smith was born in Edmonton, North London and served as a RAF glider pilot during World War II. After an unsuccessful career as a jazz musician, Smith joined EMI as an apprentice sound engineer in 1959.He was the engineer on all of the EMI studio recordings by The Beatles until 1965 when EMI promoted him from engineer to producer. The last Beatles album he recorded was Rubber Soul, and Smith engineered the sound for almost 100 Beatles songs in total.While working with The Beatles on 17 June 1965, he was offered £15000 by the band’s music publishing company, Dick James Music, to buy outright a song he had written.In early 1967, he began working with a new group, Pink Floyd, producing their first, second, and fourth studio albums The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, A Saucerful of Secrets, and Ummagumma.During the sessions for the song, “Remember a Day”, drummer Nick Mason became agitated that he could not come up with the right drum part for the song. Smith, however, knew what he wanted with the drums, so he played the part himself.In 1968, Smith produced one of the first rock concept albums, The Pretty Things’ SF Sorrow.He produced early recordings by Barclay James Harvest, including their highly-rated album Once Again, and many years later was name-checked in John Lees’ song, “John Lennon’s Guitar”.In 1971, Smith, using a recording artist pseudonym of “Hurricane ……

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A rehearsal of the song Us And Them by Pink Floyd. A truly spectacular rehearsal from the move Live at Pompeii released in 1972. Artist: Pink Floyd Movie: Live at Pompeii Song: Us and Them (Studio Footage) Release Date: September, 1972 Track Number: 06 of 11…

“Echoes” Written in 1971 by all four members of Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, Richard Wright, David Gilmour, and Nick Mason first released on the “Meddle” album. The original “Black Strat”, a 1969 sunburst Stratocaster repainted with a black finish appears here prior to neck replacement and tremolo bar modifications were done. David bought the guitar at Manny’s Guitars in New York in 1970. Additional editing and commentary blips by the band members in this clip were done by Daniel of GilmourTrueHD specifically for this youTube channel and appear in different parts of the original film. Pink Floyd – Live at Pompeii Directed by :Adrian Maben Produced by : Steve O’Rourke Michele Arnaud Reiner MoritzStarring: Pink Floyd Music by : Pink Floyd Cinematography : Willy Kurant Gabor Pogany Editing:Jose Pinheiro Distributed by: Universal Home Video This video is not rendered to the full quality extent of the DVD, does not include the full volume of the DVD and is presented for review only in the hopes the viewer will be pleased to the extent to promote the viewer to buy the full dvd. We believe this constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 USC Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and review purposes only….

“Stay” is a song from Pink Floyd’s 1972 album Obscured by Clouds. It is known for being one of the album’s particularly slow-moving, lyrical songs. It was also issued as the B-side of “Free Four”. The lyrics, written by Roger Waters and sung by Richard Wright, vacillate between frustration and indifference felt towards a casual sex partner (perhaps a groupie). In this regard it is not unlike Wright’s own “Summer ’68″. Musically, the main theme and verse of the song stays on a pedal point of G in the bass, while the chords above it change in a typical I-IV-V progression (G, C, and D Major). The D Major over the G bass results in the appearance of a G Major ninth chord, evoking a “melancholy” or “bittersweet” feeling. The chorus modulates to the parallel minor, with a chord change of G minor to C Major, a common progression in Wright’s compositions. (See “Pow R. Toc H.”, the “Funky Dung” section of the “Atom Heart Mother Suite”, or “The Great Gig in the Sky”.) Because this chord change evokes a ii-VI progression left unfinished (it would have to resolve to F Major), the effect is appropriately dissatisfying, as the chorus delves into a profusion of barely-related chords, a convoluted but eventually successful attempt to resolve back to G Major. The instrumentation is mostly Wright’s piano and Waters’s bass, with a solo and other ornamental touches from guitarist David Gilmour making heavy use of clean Wah-wah pedal….

Absolutely Curtains” is a mostly instrumental track which closes Pink Floyd’s 1972 album Obscured by Clouds. The last part of the track is a chant by the Magupa tribe, recorded for La Vallée, the film to which Obscured by Clouds is the soundtrack. Personnel -Richard Wright – Farfisa and Hammond Organ, Piano, Wurlitzer Electric Piano, Synthesiser -Nick Mason – Percussion and Cymbals -Magupa tribe – Vocalisations…

“Free Four” is a Pink Floyd song written and sung by Roger Waters, from the album Obscured by Clouds. The song begins with a rock and roll count-in; but in this case Pink Floyd decided to play with words and record, “One, Two, FREE FOUR!”. The song deals with themes that would become standard for Waters in albums following this, notably his father’s death and the “evils” of the record industry. Although the song is mellow during the lyrical portions, the guitar solo surprisingly launches into a heavier tone, with a progression that is reminiscent of the instrumental “One of These Days”, capturing the classic Pink Floyd guitar sound. “Free Four” was released as a single in 1972 and reached FM radio’s top 50 list. A later Pink Floyd song lyric, 1983′s Not Now John, would re-use the “One, two, free four” phrase (but not as a count-in)….