Lindy Mason / penny whistle & flute (14,16) Releases informationДЄrtwork: Hipgnosis with Storm Thorgerson (design & photo)ДўxCD Capitol Records вЂЋ CDPB 7 46404 2 (1987, US)ДўxCD EMI United Kingdom вЂЋ- CDEMD 1074 (1994, Europe) Remastered by Doug Sax with James GuthrieДўxCD EMI вЂЋ- 50999 028937 2 3 (2011, Europe) Remastered by James Guthrie with Joel PlanteДЄfter the parenthesis of More, Floyd comes back with a new album that they chose a double (very en-vogue back then) but unfortunately, this will prove a little ambitious for them yet. Nick Mason / percussion & drums (1-4) and timpani & tape (14-16) Roger Waters / bass & vocals (1-4) and tape, guitar & gong (9,10) Richard Wright / organ, keyboards & vocals (1-4) and Mellotron & piano (5-8) David Gilmour / lead guitar & vocals (1-4) and piano, Mellotron, organ, bass & drums (11-13) * Recorded at Mothers Club, Birmingham & Manchester College of Commerce, April & May 1969. Grand Vizier's Garden Party: Entertainment, Pt. Grand Vizier's Garden Party: Enterance, Pt. Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict (4:59)ДЎ4. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (9:12) *ДЎ0. The Murderotic Women Or Careful With That Axe, EugeneДЎ1.2. The Beginning (Green Is The Colour) / Beset By Creatures Of The Deep (Careful With That Axe, Eugene)Д«BC Studios. Paris Cinema, Lower Regent Street, London. These pastoral BBC recordings (more of which here) allow for a safe and gently floating reentry into the planetary atmosphere and subsequent happy landing.

If you can find the bootleg CD two superb unreleased late 60s BBC sessions follow the Paradiso gig and make this one of the best Floyd boots to come out in recent years.

Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun Pink Floyd live at the Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland. And for its age the sound quality is superlative.ДЇasten seat belts and set the controls. Believe me, this really is some of the finest and most intense Floydian space rock around. Tangerine Dream must have been orbiting somewhere nearby because it's only a short space shuttle ride from here to their classic 70s trailblazing space rock albums Atem, Alpha Centauri or Zeit. It's rough but remember this is the avant garde Floyd as space rock pioneers. There might be a few rough edges this does not have the finesse of the live disc on Ummagumma or the BBC In Concert shows but it more than makes up for it atmosphere. David Gilmour's guitar is well up in the mix so what you get is a powerful set of space rock instrumentals with some really incendiary guitar playing from the man himself. Most of what the Floyd were doing at this time was instrumental anyway and the lack of vocals just adds to the unearthliness. The set was recorded by Dutch Radio Hilversum but due to some kind of technical foul-up the vocals were not recorded or are so far back in the mix as to be inaudible. The Careful With That Axe, Eugene is sensorially bewildering and the Saucerful of Secrets has an empyreal glory the album version merely hints at. The Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun here is intense. It was recorded at a gig at the Paradiso in Amsterdam in the summer of 1969. The first half of this disc is 40 minutes of absolutely gorgeous interstellar Floyd in full-on warp factor space rock mode. This is one of the best Pink Floyd live recordings from their under-rated post Syd Barrett pre Dark Side of the Moon lost in space era.

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