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More details on Pink Floyd individual Early Years volumes: 1970, 1971 & 1972

Pink Floyd Early Years individual volumes are being released in March. Below you will find details around the final three sets, 1970 Devi/ation, 1971 Reverber/ation and 1972 Obfusc/ation

1970: DEVI/ATION (5-disc set – 2 CD/2 DVD/Blu-ray                                  

At the end of 1969 and in the early part of 1970, Pink Floyd recorded and mixed their contribution to Michelangelo Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point. Three songs were released on the soundtrack album, and a further four in the expanded CD edition in 1997. Never released on one Pink Floyd disc, this volume compiles remixed and updated versions of the Zabriskie Point audio material.

In the same year, Pink Floyd scored their first UK number one album with Atom Heart Mother, a collaboration with Ron Geesin, and the audio includes the first performance for the BBC, featuring an orchestra and choir, as well as, on DVD, the original Quad mix.

Video material includes a full hour of Pink Floyd performing live at San Francisco cable TV station KQED plus extracts from historic performances of Atom Heart Mother, and material from French TV coverage of the St. Tropez festival in Southern France.

  • • Atom Heart Mother band-only versions
  • • BBC Radio session, Zabriskie Point mixes
  • • Concert footage and improvisations
  • • Atom Heart Mother original 4.0 Quad mix
  • • Replica memorabilia from the period

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Devi/ation 1970

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1971: REVERBER/ATION (3-disc set – CD/DVD/Blu-ray)                                         

In 1971 Pink Floyd recorded the Meddle album, containing the LP side-long Echoes, regarded by many as laying the groundwork for The Dark Side Of The Moon.

This package includes part of the original demos, when the project gestated from Nothing to Return Of The Son Of Nothing, as well as a contemporary BBC session recording.

Audio-visual material includes the original unreleased Quad mix of Echoes but also material of live band performances in 1971, including songs performed with Roland Petit and his Marseille ballet company.

  • • BBC Radio session, Nothing Part 14
  • • Concert footage and documentaries
  • • Echoes original 4.0 Quad mix
  • • Replica memorabilia from the period

1972: OBFUSC/ATION (4-disc set – 2 CD/DVD/Blu-ray)

In 1972 Pink Floyd travelled to Hérouville, north of Paris, to record at Strawberry Studios there, based in the town’s Chateau. In two weeks, they wrote and recorded one of their most cohesive albums, Obscured By Clouds, the soundtrack to Barbet Schroeder’s La Vallée.

1972 saw the release of Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii, a film of the band performing without an audience in the historic Roman amphitheatre of Pompeii, directed by Adrian Maben. The video material includes the performances from the Live At Pompeii film, edited to new 5.1 audio mixes, plus material from contemporary French TV as well as performances from Brighton Dome in June 1972 and further performances with the Roland Petit ballet company:

  • • Obscured By Clouds 2016 remix
  • • Live at Pompeii 2016 stereo mixes
  • • Documentaries inc. Roland Petit ballet
  • • Pompeii concert film in 5.1 sound
  • • Replica memorabilia from the period

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1972 Obfusc/ation

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1970 DEVI/ATION

CD 1:

  1. Atom Heart Mother live in Montreux, 21 Nov 1970† 17.58

BBC Radio Session, 16 July 1970:

  1. Embryo† 11.10
  2. Fat Old Sun† 5.52
  3. Green Is The Colour† 3.27
  4. Careful With That Axe, Eugene† 8.25
  5. If† 5.47
  6. Atom Heart Mother† with choir, cello & brass ensemble 25.30

CD 2:

Unreleased tracks from the ‘Zabriskie Point’ soundtrack recordings:

  1. On The Highway† 1.16
  2. Auto Scene Version 2† 1.13
  3. Auto Scene Version 3† 1.31
  4. Aeroplane† 2.18
  5. Explosion† 5.47
  6. The Riot Scene† 1.40
  7. Looking At Map† 1.57
  8. Love Scene Version 7† 5.03
  9. Love Scene Version 1† 3.26
  10. Take Off† 1.20
  11. Take Off Version 2† 1.12
  12. Love Scene Version 2† 1.56
  13. Love Scene (Take 1)† 2.16
  14. Unknown Song (Take 1)† 5.56
  15. Love Scene (Take 2)† 6.40
  16. Crumbling Land (Take 1)† 4.09
  17. Atom Heart Mother† Early studio version, band only           19.15

Total: 67 mins, 9 secs approx.

DVD 1:

An Hour with Pink Floyd:

KQED, San Francisco, USA, 30 April 1970:

  1. Atom Heart Mother 17.37
  2. Cymbaline 8.38
  3. Grantchester Meadows 7.37
  4. Green Is The Colour 3.31
  5. Careful With That Axe, Eugene 9.09
  6. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 12.37

Total: 59 mins, 9 secs approx.

Audio only:

Atom Heart Mother album original 4.0 Quad mix 1970:

  1. Atom Heart Mother 23.42
  2. If 4.31
  3. Summer ’68 5.29
  4. Fat Old Sun 5.24
  5. Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast 13.01

Total: 52 mins, 7 secs approx.

DVD 2:

‘Pop Deux – Festival de St. Tropez’, France, 8 August 1970:

Part 1:

  1. Cymbaline (sound check) 3.54
  2. Atom Heart Mother 13.46
  3. Embryo 11.23

Part 2:

  1. Green Is The Colour/
  2. Careful With That Axe, Eugene 12.21
  3. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 12.07

Roland Petit Ballet, Paris, France, 5 December 1970:

  1. Instrumental Improvisations 1,2,3† live in the studio 3.28
  2. Embryo 2.39

Blackhill’s Garden Party, Hyde Park, London, UK, 18 July 1970:

9. Atom Heart Mother with the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble/John Alldis Choir

1971 REVERBER/ATION

CD:

  1. Nothing Part 14 (Echoes work in progress) † 7.01

BBC Radio Session, 30 September 1971:

  1. Fat Old Sun† 15.33
  2. One Of These Days† 7.19
  3. Embryo† 10.43
  4. Echoes† 26.25

Total: 67 mins 1 sec approx.

DVD/Blu-ray:

‘Aspekte’ feature                                                 9.51

  1. Interview + Atom Heart Mother (extracts) 

Hamburg, Germany, 25 February 1971
Brass & Choir conducted by Jeffrey Mitchell

  1. A Saucerful Of Secrets (extract) 

Offenbach, Germany, 26 February 1971

‘Cinq Grands Sur La Deux’                                                17.55

Abbaye de Royaumont, Asnierès-sur-Oise, France, 15 June 1971

  1. Set The Control For The Heart Of The Sun
  2. Cymbaline
  3. Atom Heart Mother (extract) 3.12

‘Musikforum Ossiachersee’, Ossiach, Austria, 1 July 1971
Brass & Choir conducted by Jeffrey Mitchell

‘Get To Know’                                                     6.23

Randwick Race Course, Sydney, Australia, 15 August 1971

  1. Careful With That Axe, Eugene

Band interview

’24 hours – Bootleg Records’, London, UK, 1971

  1. Documentary including Pink Floyd  and manager Steve O’Rourke 2.27

‘Review’, London, UK, 1971                                  3.37

  1. Storm Thorgerson & Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell interviewed re: record cover design
  1. One of These Days (‘French Windows’) 4.17

Ian Emes animation created July 1972, Birmingham, UK

  1. Atom Heart Mother (extract, in colour): 5.10

‘Musikforum Ossiachersee’, Ossiach, Austria, 1 July 1971
Brass & Choir conducted by Jeffrey Mitchell

  1. Atom Heart Mother: ’71 Hakone Aphrodite 15.11

Open Air Festival, Hakone, Japan, 6-7 August 1971

Total: 68 mins 3 secs approx..

Audio-only material:

  1. Echoes original 4.0 Quad mix 1971 23.35

1972 OBFUSC/ATION

CD:

Obscured By Clouds 2016 Remix   

  1. Obscured By Clouds† 3.03
  2. When You’re In† 2.31
  3. Burning Bridges†3.30
  4. The Gold It’s In The… †3.07
  5. Wot’s…Uh The Deal†5.09
  6. Mudmen† 4.18
  7. Childhood’s End† 4.33
  8. Free Four†4.16
  9. Stay

DVD/Blu-ray:

Recording Obscured by Clouds, Château d’Hérouville,

France, 23-29 February 1972

  1. Wot’s…Uh The Deal: with recording session photos 5.04
  2. Pop Deux: Documentary recording Obscured By Clouds 7.14

+ David Gilmour and Roger Waters interview

Brighton Dome, UK, 29 June 1972                                           16.44

  1. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
  2. Careful With That Axe, Eugene 

Roland Petit Pink Floyd Ballet, France, news reports 1972-73

  1. Actualités Méditerranée, Marseille, 22 November 1972 3.29
  2. JT Nuit – Les Pink Floyd, Marseille, 26 November 1972 3.04
  3. JT 20– Pink Floyd, Paris, 12 January 1973 3.01
  4. Journal de Paris – Les Pink Floyd, Paris, 12 January 1973 5.03
  1. Poitiers – Autour Du Passage Des Pink Floyd 4.27

Concert set up news report – France, 29 November 1972

Live At Pompeii (with 2016 5.1 Audio Remix)

  1. Careful With That Axe, Eugene 6.40
  2. A Saucerful Of Secrets 10.09
  3. One Of These Days 5.58
  4. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 10.24
  5. Echoes 26.10

Total: 107 mins 27 secs approx..

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