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Infobox album| Name = Obscured by Clouds| Type = Soundtrack| Artist = Pink Floyd | Cover = Obs-235.jpg| Released = 3 June 1972| Recorded = 23–29 February and 23–27 March 1972, Château d'Hérouville , Hérouville , Île-de-France (region)|Île-de-France , France | Genre = Progressive rock | Length = 40:30| Language = English language|English | Label = Harvest Records|Harvest / EMI Records|EMI | Producer = Pink Floyd| Last album = Meddle (album)|Meddle
(1971)| This album = Obscured by Clouds
(1972)| Next album = The Dark Side of the Moon
(1973)| Misc = Singles| Name = Obscured by Clouds| Type = Studio album| Single 1 = Free Four | Single 1 date = 3 June 1972Extra chronology| Artist = Pink Floyd soundtracks| Type = soundtrack| Last album = Zabriskie Point (album)|Zabriskie Point
(1970)| This album = Obscured by Clouds
(1972)| Next album =Album ratings| rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = rating|2|5 Allmusic|class=album|id=r2043589|tab=review|label=Album review|first=Stephen Thomas|last=Erlewine|accessdate=4 July 2011| rev2 = Robert Christgau | rev2Score = C cite web|url= http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php? id=2773|title=Album review|publisher=Robert Christgau|accessdate=4 July 2011| rev3 = George Starostin | rev3Score = rating|12|15 (8/10) cite web|url= http://starling.rinet.ru/music/pink.htm#Clouds|title=Album review|publisher=George Starostin's reviews|accessdate=4 July 2011 Obscured by Clouds is the seventh studio album by English progressive rock band Pink Floyd , based on their soundtrack for the French film La Vallée (film)|La Vallée , by Barbet Schroeder . Some copies of the album refer to the film by its English title, The Valley . The gramophone record|LP was released in the United Kingdom on 3 June 1972 on Harvest Records|Harvest / EMI Records|EMI and then in the United States on 15 June 1972 on Harvest/ Capitol Records|Capitol . The album reached number one in Francecite web|url= http://www.infodisc.fr/Album_P.php|title=Infodisc - Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds|publisher=www.infodisc.fr|accessdate=2011-03-02
, number six on the UK Albums Chart and number 46 on the US albums chart (where it was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA in March 1994).Citation needed|date=June 2009 In 1986, the album was released on Compact Disc|CD . A digitally remastered CD was released in March 1996 in the UK and August 1996 in the US.Citation needed|date=June 2009 The cover of Obscured by Clouds is an out-of-focus film still of a man in a tree.

Overview


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

The band was 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."Mason Nick; Inside Out: A personal History of Pink Floyd


"Free Four" was the first Pink Floyd song to get significant airplay in the US, and the second (after " Corporal Clegg " from A Saucerful of Secrets ) to deal with the death of Eric Fletcher Waters, Roger Waters' father.Allmusic |class=song |id=t1530656 |tab= |label=Song review |first=Stewart |last=Mason |accessdate=4 July 2011

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 Sibilant consonant|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 Audio mastering|mastering . The sibilance problem was corrected in later pressings.

Obscured by Clouds was the second Pink Floyd album to feature the EMS VCS 3|VCS 3 synthesiser as stated by EMS Archives.cite web|url= http://www.ems-synthi.demon.co.uk/emsstory.html#users|title=EMS: The Inside Story - The Users|publisher=Electronic Music Studios|first=Graham|last=Hinton|accessdate=4 July 2011

Cover


The album's cover is a photograph of a man sitting in a tree which has been taken out of focus to the point of complete distortion.

Live performances


Pink Floyd opened some shows in 1973 with an extended jam based on the pairing of "Obscured by Clouds" and "When You're In", accompanied by smoke and a light show.

"Childhood's End" is the only other song from the soundtrack to find its way to the stage. It made several appearances in Europe starting on 1 December 1972 and at the start of the band's March 1973 tour of North America, usually with an extended instrumental passage.

"Wot's... Uh, the Deal? " saw revival as part of David Gilmour's set list during his 2006 solo tour. One of these performances features on Gilmour's 2007 DVD Remember That Night and also the vinyl version of his 2008 live album Live in Gdansk .

Track listing


Track listing| headline = Side one
| writing_credits = yes
| extra_column = Lead vocals
| title1 = Obscured by Clouds (instrumental)|Obscured by Clouds
| writer1 = David Gilmour|Gilmour , Roger Waters|Waters
| extra1 = Instrumental
| length1 = 3:03
| title2 = When You're In
| writer2 = Gilmour, Waters, Richard Wright (musician)|Wright , Nick Mason|Mason
| extra2 = Instrumental
| length2 = 2:30
| title3 = Burning Bridges (Pink Floyd song)|Burning Bridges
| writer3 = Wright, Waters
| extra3 = Gilmour, Wright
| length3 = 3:29
| title4 = The Gold It's in the...
| writer4 = Gilmour, Waters
| extra4 = Gilmour
| length4 = 3:07
| title5 = Wot's... Uh the Deal?
| writer5 = Gilmour, Waters
| extra5 = Gilmour
| length5 = 5:08
| title6 = Mudmen (instrumental)|Mudmen
| writer6 = Wright, Gilmour
| extra6 = Instrumental
| length6 = 4:20
Track listing| headline = Side two
| writing_credits = yes
| extra_column = Lead vocals
| title7 = Childhood's End (Pink Floyd song)|Childhood's End
| writer7 = Gilmour
| extra7 = Gilmour
| length7 = 4:31
| title8 = Free Four
| writer8 = Waters
| extra8 = Waters
| length8 = 4:15
| title9 = Stay (Pink Floyd song)|Stay
| writer9 = Waters, Wright
| extra9 = Wright
| length9 = 4:05
| title10 = Absolutely Curtains
| writer10 = Wright, Mapuga tribe
| extra10 = Instrumental, chant by Mapuga tribe
| length10 = 5:52

Singles


  • "Free Four"/"Stay" (1972, United States|U.S. only release)

  • "Free Four"/"The Gold It's in the..." (1972, Italy only release)


    • Personnel


    ;Pink Floyd
  • David Gilmour & nbsp;– guitar s, Singing|vocals , pedal steel guitar , EMS VCS 3|VCS3

  • Nick Mason & nbsp;– Drum kit|drums , Percussion instrument|percussion , vocals Obscured by Clouds 2011 remaster album notes

  • Roger Waters & nbsp;– bass guitar , vocals, VCS3

  • Richard Wright (musician)|Richard Wright & nbsp;– Keyboard instrument|keyboards , vocals, VCS3, Hammond organ


    • ;Additional personnel
  • Hipgnosis & nbsp;– cover


    • Sales chart performance


    YearChartPosition
    1972French Albums Chart 1
    1972 UK Albums Chart 6cite weburl=http:/ / www.chartstats.com/ albuminfo.php? id=3074publisher=www.chartstats.com
    1972Billboard Pop AlbumsAllmusic>class=album


    Notes


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    References


    Reflist|colwidth=30emRefbegin
  • cite book

    • | last = Blake
    | first = Mark
    | title = Comfortably Numb& nbsp;— The Inside Story of Pink Floyd
    | year= 2008
    | publisher=Da Capo Press
    | edition = 1st US paperback
    | isbn= 0-306-81752-7, 978-0-306-81752-6
    | url= http://books.google.com/books? id=2I0eaxtu6HEC& pg=PA264& dq=nick+mason& cd=8#v=onepage& q=nick%20mason& f=false
    | ref= SfnRef|Blake|2008
  • cite book

    • | last = Mason
    | first = Nick
    | title = Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd
    | year = 2005
    | publisher = Chronicle Books
    | edition = 1st US paperback
    | isbn= 0-8118-4824-8, 978-0811848244
    | url = http://books.google.com/books? id=idOGghPNM6UC& printsec=frontcover& dq=nick+mason& cd=1#v=onepage& q=& f=false
    | ref= SfnRef|Mason|2005
  • cite book

    • | last = Povey
    | first = Glen
    | title = Echoes: the complete history of Pink Floyd
    | year = 2008
    | publisher = 3C Publishing Ltd.
    | edition = 2nd UK paperback
    | isbn= 0-9554624-0-1, 978-0-9554624-1-2
    | url = http://books.google.com/books? id=qnnl3FnO-B4C& dq=glenn+povey+echoes& printsec=frontcover& source=bn& hl=en& ei=zyKXS9_BBoaisgOZ7oHCAQ& sa=X& oi=book_result& ct=result& resnum=4& ved=0CBEQ6AEwAw#v=onepage& q=& f=false
    | ref= SfnRef|Povey|2008
  • cite book

    • | last = Povey
    | first = Glen
    | last2 = Russell
    | first2 = Ian
    | title = Pink Floyd: in the flesh, the complete performance history
    | year = 1997
    | publisher = St. Martin's Press
    | edition = 1st US paperback
    | isbn= 0-312-19175-8, 978-0-9554624-0-5
    | url = http://books.google.com/books? id=Yqqic3DZhVUC& printsec=frontcover& dq=pink+floyd+in+the+flesh& cd=1#v=onepage& q=pink%20floyd%20in%20the%20flesh& f=false
    |ref= SfnRef|Povey|Russell|1997
  • cite book

    • | last = Schaffner
    | first = Nicholas
    | title = Saucerful of Secrets: the Pink Floyd odyssey
    | year = 1991
    | publisher = Dell Publishing
    | edition = 1st US paperback
    | isbn= 0-385-30684-9, 978-0-385-30684-3
    | url= http://books.google.com/books? id=lOpy2HO-w4IC& q=a+saucerful+of+secrets& dq=a+saucerful+of+secrets& cd=1
    | ref= SfnRef|Schaffner|1991Refend
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