martes, 29 de noviembre de 2022

Pink Floyd - "More" - (Reconstructed the lost Soundtrack)

 


"More"
 is an German-French production. A film written and directed by Barbet Schroeder
. Production began in 1968, Released n August 4, 1969, More garnered mostly negative reviews from critics.

The film screenplay was written by Paul Gégauff and Barbet Schroeder with the original story by Schroeder. it deals with heroin addiction as drug fascination on the island of Ibiza, Spain. Schroeder's inspiration for the film came from the counterculture tradition of the 1960s with themes of drugs, addiction, sexual freedom and the beauty of life often in New Wave films. Real drugs were used in scenes showing the use of marijuana, heroin, and LSD.

Starring Mimsy Farmer and Klaus Grünberg,

Schroeder was a fan of Pink Floyd, and brought a rough cut of the film to London for them to work with.he director wanted the soundtrack to relate exactly to what was happening in the movie, rather than a film score backing the visuals.

It was recorded at Pye Studios in London, in late January and early February 1969 with engineer Brian Humphries. Produced by Pink Floyd without assistance from Norman Smith, who retained an executive producer credit, and the first full album without Syd Barrett, who had been ousted from the group in 1968, during the recording of their second album, A Saucerful of Secrets.

Pink Floyd worked out most of the music in two weeks, with material put together quickly and semi-improvised. Schroeder was impressed by how quickly the group created and recorded the material. Roger Waters wrote most of the lyrics during breaks between recording backing tracks. David Gilmour handled all lead vocals on the album. Mason and keyboardist Richard Wright co-wrote the instrumental "Up The Khyber", the only time the pair were credited as sole co-composers.

One song written by Roger Waters  can be heard in the film which were not included on the album:Sea"Seabirds". it was supposedly released in the 2016 box set, The Early Years 1965–1972. But no, it still remains unpublished because The track called "Seabirds" in the box set is not the original song, but an alternative take of "Quicksilver. And it is believed that this song has actually been lost. because, the teacher was lost during recording sound session for the film or when it was returned was mislabeled and therefore not found.

More reached number 9 in the UK and 153 in the US. It was the last of three Pink Floyd albums to be released in the United States by the Tower Records division of Capitol Records.

The version presented here is as it appears in the movie, with some added songs and other unpublished ones, "Seabirds" is pending, one day it will appeared and we can make a complete, I hope,  and almost definitive reconstruction, while that happens, enjoy this one. Bit.ly/pFm69St For this reconstruction has been done following the order in which they appeared in the film. For this, an original copy of the film that is not the one published in 2005 on DVD has been carefully viewed.

1.- More (Main Theme)  / 2. – The Nile Song / 3.- Seabirds (Roger Waters lost song - no copy available yet) / 4.-  Escape. (A.k.a:  "Romantic theme part 1) / 5.- Cymbaline. / 6.- Hollywood. / 7.- A Spanish suite (excerpt). / .- Ibiza bar (outtake. Removed from final copy) . / 9.- The Party Sequence (excerpt). / 10.- Green is the colour (Version 2). / 1.- Quicksilver (excerpt). / 12.- Cirrus Minor (no birds intro) ./ 13.- More Blues (excerpt)./ 14.- The Crying Song. / 5.- Up The Rhyyber./ 16.-Insanity (A.K.a: " Romantic Theme Part 2  excerpt). / 17.- Green is the colour (version 1) / 17.- More (Beat version - end titles). The cirector removed this section from the final copy.

Bonus track: "Seabirds" performed by The Seabirds.

"More" is the third studio album and first soundtrack album by pink Floyd It was released on 13 June 1969 in the United Kingdom by EMI Columbia and on 9 August 1969 in the United States by Tower Records.The album was a top ten hit in the UK, but received mixed reviews. Several songs became live favourites over the following years

Well, that´s all for now. Enjoy it and see you soon.