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Vinyl L.P - Harvest Records - SHSP 4020.
1972 - U.K.
Album cover: HIPGNOSIS.
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Back cover
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Back cover & front
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Pink Floyd
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Richard Wright, Roger Waters, Nick Mason & David Gilmour
About the artwork:
Jean-Pierre Kalfon
The cover was made from a (distorted) image from the film.
Memorabilia:
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Billboard Magazine - March 25, 1972.
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ReplyDeleteObscured by Clouds is the seventh studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 2 June 1972 by Harvest and Capitol Records. It serves as the soundtrack for the French film La Vallée, by Barbet Schroeder.
It was recorded in two sessions in France, while Pink Floyd were in the midst of touring, and produced by the band. The album's only single was "Free Four".
Obscured by Clouds has been seen as a stopgap for the band, who had started work on their next album, The Dark Side of the Moon (1973).
The album reached number six in the United Kingdom and number 46 in the United States; retrospective opinions from both fans and critics have been mixed, some critics noting the similarities to their later material.
The album's cover was, like several other Pink Floyd albums, designed by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell of Hipgnosis.
The cover is a still from a workprint of La Vallée depicting a man (Jean-Pierre Kalfon as Gaëtan) sitting in a tree, reaching out to pick the fruit from one of its branches.
The still is out of focus to the point of complete distortion. Hipgnosis viewed a number of stills from the film on a 35mm projector and liked the visual effect when the slide jammed.
Schroeder later said the band did not want to make the cover particularly good as The Dark Side of the Moon would have to compete with it, but Thorgerson insisted it be given proper consideration like any other Floyd album.