Label: Toshiba-EMI Ltd. Records (Japan), CP32-5275
Style: Progressive Rock, Soundtrack
Country: London, England
Time: 40:27
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 212 Mb
Album recorded and mixed in the analog domain - AAD. That is, a minimum of digital processing.
A=Analog. D=digital. The first letter stands for how the music was recorded. The second letter for how it was mixed. The third letter stands for the format (all CD's will have D as the last letter).
Charts: UK #6, AUS #44, CAN #32, FRA #1, GER #19, NL #3, US #46. UK & US: Gold.
By 1972, Pink Floyd had recorded the soundtracks to the films The Committee (1968) and More (1969), and part of Zabriskie Point (1970). On the back of More's success, its director, Barbet Schroeder, asked them to record the soundtrack to his next major project. The new film, La Vallee, features two travellers on a spiritual quest in New Guinea, and Schroeder thought Pink Floyd would be suitable to provide the music. The group had already started working on another album, The Dark Side of the Moon, including some basic recording and live performances, but took two breaks to Strawberry Studios, Chateau d'Herouville, France, just before and after doing a Japanese tour, to write and record music for the film. The album was mixed from 4–6 April at Morgan Sound Studios in London.
As they had done on More, the band saw a rough cut of the film and noted certain timings for cues with a stopwatch. From this, they created a number of pieces that they felt could be cross-faded at various points in the final cut of the film. They were not worried about creating complete songs, feeling that any musical piece would be workable without the need for any solos, but nevertheless, under pressure to produce enough material, they managed to create a series of well-structured songs. Drummer Nick Mason recalls that the sessions were very hurried, and the band spent most of the time in Paris locked away in the studio.
During the first recording session in February 1972, the French television station ORTF filmed a short segment of the band recording the album, including interviews with bassist Roger Waters and guitarist David Gilmour. In a snippet of interview footage at Abbey Road Studios that appeared in the 1974 theatrical version (later released on VHS and Laserdisc and subsequent "Director's Cut" DVD) of Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, Waters said that early UK pressings of the album contained excessive sibilance.
After recording had finished, the band fell out with the film company, prompting them to release the soundtrack album as Obscured by Clouds, rather than La Vallee. In response, the film was retitled La Vallee (Obscured by Clouds) on its release.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscured_by_Clouds)
01. Obscured By Clouds (03:04)
02. When You're In (02:27)
03. Burning Bridges (03:29)
04. The Gold It's In The... (03:07)
05. Wot's... Uh The Deal (05:09)
06. Mudmen (04:20)
07. Childhood's End (04:34)
08. Free Four (04:15)
09. Stay (04:06)
10. Absolutely Curtains (05:52)
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