Atom Heart Mother

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Atom Heart Mother is the name of the published on October 10, 1970, the fifth album by the band Pink Floyd. It was the first album of the band, which was recorded especially for four-channel quadraphonic and was leading the way for further work by Pink Floyd in this regard.

Formation

The album was recorded in London's Abbey Road Studios from February to August 1970. The nearly 24 -minute title track " Atom Heart Mother " was the then longest composition of the band and was orchestrated by Ron Geesin consuming. Initially it was called " The amazing pudding"; than that of a live performance but it was not clear how one should announce the piece, hit the Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters to the manager John Peel before, just in a newspaper lying around for a title search. The cover story of the issue was about a pregnant woman who was to be implanted with atomic battery, a novel pacemaker. The title of the newspaper article was " Atom Heart Mother " (Atom Heart Mother ). After that, the band decided to use the title for the complete album in production.

Content

The title track, the Atom Heart Mother Suite, is the longest uncut piece of music by Pink Floyd. ( The originally even longer works Shine On You Crazy Diamond was divided when it was released in two halves, at the beginning and end of the album Wish You Were Here. ) Through his work on this, the first original side of the LP -length song, seemed Ron Geesin strongly with the final composition. Above all, he harmonized the prepared by the band song material that went into the suite. In addition to the musicians of the band come with the piece a full orchestra and a choir and various sound effects used.

Furthermore, the album contains three pieces, each of which was composed in charge of a band member Roger Waters wrote a ballad entitled countryeske If he played in later years to his solo concerts for Radio KAOS tour. Rick Wright wrote the play Summer '68, in which he took a critical look with the rock-' n-roll lifestyle the band. David Gilmour Fat Old Sun contributed, which was often performed by the band at concerts and also to David Gilmour Live In Concert DVDs (2002) and Remember That Night ( 2007) can be heard. The album closes with the 13 minute instrumental Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast, an experimental, avant-garde piece, by the roadie Alan Stiles should be honored and in which it is also occasionally be heard by various noises.

In the first editions of the album from vinyl to listen to the last groove of the plate of a dripping faucet. If the turntable does not shut off the faucet drips customized long.

Promotions

For promotion of the album great effort was driven by the record company EMI. The various promotions included, among others, the sending of inflatable plastic udders of journalists to a herd of cows, which was driven by the partially blocked central London. From the album also has a quadraphonic version exists, roughly equivalent to 4.0 surround.

Success

Atom Heart Mother reached number 1 in the UK and number 55 in the U.S. charts. In 1994, a remastered CD of the album was released.

Cover

The original album cover shows on the front and back only a cow in a meadow, with no text or other clues as to what the album contains. The cover was designed by the London design group Hipgnosis. The band said it was a reaction to the " space rock " image that entwined at this time to Pink Floyd. The band did not want to be set to a certain style or a certain look, which is why they asked for this album for a simple Cover. At the end, they agreed on the picture of a cow on a meadow.

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Musician

Pink Floyd

  • David Gilmour - guitar, vocals
  • Nick Mason - drums, percussion
  • Roger Waters - bass, vocals
  • Richard Wright - organ, piano, Mellotron, vocals

In addition:

  • John Alldis Choir - Choir singing
  • Alan Parsons - engineer and co-producer
  • Peter Bown - engineering
  • Ron Geesin - orchestral conducting and co- composition on the title track " Atom Heart Mother ".

Trivia

  • The cover is featured in the film A Clockwork Orange in the scene in the music store in the background. Originally wanted to use music from the album in his film director Stanley Kubrick, his application was rejected by the band.
  • The new edition of the album from 1994 is settled a two-sided piece of paper. On the one side there is a German recipe for "Original Franconian cow brain ", on the other an English recipe for "Traditional Bedouin Wedding Feast".
  • On 15 June 2008, Atom Heart Mother performed at Cadogan Hall in London under the direction of Ron Geesin. David Gilmour appeared as a guest musician.
Record label Genre Richard Wright (musician) Norman Smith (record producer) Ummagumma Relics (album) Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album) Quadraphonic sound Atom Heart Mother (suite) Bass guitar Kapellmeister The Piper at the Gates of Dawn A Saucerful of Secrets Meddle Animals (Pink Floyd album) The Wall The Final Cut (Album) A Momentary Lapse of Reason The Division Bell More (soundtrack) Obscured by Clouds A Collection of Great Dance Songs The Nile Song One of These Days (Pink Floyd song) Fearless (Pink Floyd song) Money (Pink Floyd song) Us and Them (song) Time (Pink Floyd song) Another Brick in the Wall Comfortably Numb Run Like Hell High Hopes (Pink Floyd song) Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd song) Pink Floyd discography
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