Obscured by Clouds

Obscured by Clouds is an album by Pink Floyd based on their soundtrack for the French film La Vallée ( directed by Barbet Schroeder ). Some editions of the album refer to the film with the English title The Valley The album was released on June 3 1972 in Europe at Harvest / EMI and on June 15 in the US at Harvest / Capitol . The photo on the album cover shows a man in a tree. However, the picture is out of focus and thus comes at a rally balls or clouds (clouds). Some songs are instrumental.

Content
[verbergen]
 * 1 Recording
 * 2 Live performances
 * 3 Tracklist
 * 3.1 Side 1
 * 3.2 Side 2
 * 4 Manning
 * 5 External links

[Rec Edit ]
Pink Floyd had already a soundtrack for a film by Barbet Schroeder made, namely to More movie. This resulted in their album Soundtrack from the Film More ( 1969 ).

The band members interrupted their work to later come out album The Dark Side of the Moon and traveled to France . They had only a few weeks to record the soundtrack.

Live performances [ edit ]
Some concerts were opened in 1973 with a combination of "Obscured by Clouds" and "When You're In", supported by smoke and a light show. "Childhood's End" was also played live, often with an extended instrumental passage. "Wot's ... Uh the Deal?" later still played live during the solo tour by David Gilmour in 2006. One of these performances on the DVD Remember That Night with David Gilmour in 2007 and also on the vinyl version of his live album Live in Gdańsk in 2008.

Side 1 [ edit ]

 * 1) Obscured by Clouds, instrumental ( Gilmour , Waters ) - 3:03
 * 2) When You're In, instrumental (Gilmour, Waters, Wright , Mason ) - 2:30
 * 3) Burning Bridges (Waters, Wright) - 3:29
 * 4) The Gold It's in the ... (Gilmour, Waters) - 3:07
 * 5) Wot's ... Uh the Deal (Gilmour, Waters) - 5:08
 * 6) Mudmen, instrumental (Gilmour, Wright) - 4:20

Side 2 [ edit ]

 * 1) Childhood's End (Gilmour) - 4:31
 * 2) Free Four (Waters) - 4:15
 * 3) Stay (Waters, Wright) - 4:05
 * 4) Absolutely Curtains, instrumental (Gilmour, Waters, Wright, Mason) - 5:52

Occupation [ edit ]

 * David Gilmour - guitar , vocals , synthesizer
 * Roger Waters - bass guitar, vocals
 * Richard Wright - keyboards, vocals
 * Nick Mason - drums , percussion
 * Hipgnosis - Cover