Soundtrack music composed & written by Pink Floyd for the film
Obscured By Clouds a.k.a La Vallee was a French film released in 1972 for which members of Pink Floyd composed and produced the music.
Australian flavour to the film plot, in short the story went like this ...
Viviane (Ogier), the wife of the French consul in Melbourne, joins a group of explorers in search of a mysterious hidden valley in the bush of New Guinea, where she hopes to find the feathers of an extremely rare exotic bird. Along the way through the dense jungles of Papua New Guinea and on the peak of Mount Giluwe, she and the small group of explorers make contact with the Mapuga tribe, one of the most isolated groups of human beings on earth, who inspire them to explore their own humanity, unfettered by their own subjective ideas of "civilization". The search becomes a search for a paradise said to exist within a valley marked as "obscured by cloud" on the only map of the area available dated as surveyed in 1969.
Besides the great well known songs from The Who, there are some pretty interesting songs which never made the light of commercial radio too
The music is pretty psychedelic, great stuff from Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds
EMI Records
Cat# SHSP 4020
1972
Matrix codes: (stamped)
SHSP 4020 A-2 then stamped [ r
SHSP 4020 B-2 then stamped G G 0 (sideways)
1st UK issue
Cover (rounded corners) is in very good condition, just light edge handling wear only
New inner plastic sleeve
Vinyl is in very good condition, inspected under a white halogen light source I can see just a few light scratches.
I have played both sides of the record and surface noise is not an issue BUT I did hear a couple of very short mistracks on the opening track Side 1 Track 1
Actually, I then noticed a very slight "ripple" to the record surface which made it very hard for my tonearm cartridge to track properly because I use extremely low pressure when test playing my vinyl.
Just a very small increase in pressure allowed the styli to track properly = no mistracking.
At no other point in the record, on either side, is there a problem
New outer protective sleeve
Tracks: Obscured By Clouds, When You're In, Burning Bridges, The Gold It's In The ..., Wot's...Uh The Deal, Mudmen, Childhood's End, Free Four, Stay, Absolutely Curtains
Extremely difficult to find 1st release UK vinyl, prices up over US$120 as being asked for this one online
