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''Obscured by Clouds'' is the seventh studio album by English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, based on their soundtrack for the French film ''La Vallée'', by Barbet Schroeder. Some copies of the album refer to the film by its English title, ''The Valley''. The cover of ''Obscured by Clouds'' is an out-of-focus film still of a man in a tree. The lyrics and music tell the story of one's journeys. The album was released in the United Kingdom on 2 June 1972, and a few weeks later in the United States, by Harvest, reaching number 6 and number 46 respectively. A single, "Free Four", was issued in the US only. ==Overview== By 1972, Pink Floyd had supplied the soundtracks to the films ''The Committee'' (1968) and ''More'' (1969), and to part of ''Zabriskie Point'' (1970). Consequently, Barbet Schroeder asked the band to create the soundtrack for ''La Vallée'', which they had agreed to do after ''More'' had become a success. The group had already started working on ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' at this point, having done some basic recording and performed the piece live several times, but work was interrupted when the band travelled to France on two separate trips, either side of a Japanese tour, to write and record music for the film. The album was then mixed from 4–6 April at Morgan Sound Studios in London.〔 As they had done on ''More'', the band saw a rough cut of the film, and noted down certain timings for cues with a stopwatch. From this, they created a number of pieces that they felt could be cross-faded at various points in the final cut of the film. They weren't too worried about creating complete songs, feeling that any musical piece would be workable without the need for any solos, but nevertheless, under pressure to produce enough material, they managed to create a whole series of well-structured songs.〔 Drummer Nick Mason recalls that the sessions were very hurried, and the band spent most of the time in Paris locked away in the studio.〔 "Free Four" was the first Pink Floyd song since "See Emily Play" to attract significant airplay in the US, and the second (after "Corporal Clegg" from ''A Saucerful of Secrets'') to deal with the death of Eric Fletcher Waters, Roger Waters' father.〔 "Childhood's End" was the last song Pink Floyd released to have lyrics written by David Gilmour, the band's guitarist, until the release of A Momentary Lapse of Reason in 1987. "Absolutely Curtains", the closing instrumental on the album, ends with a recording of the Mapuga tribe, as seen in the film.〔 During the first recording session in February 1972, the French television station ORTF filmed a short segment of the band recording the album, including interviews with Waters and Gilmour.〔 In a snippet of interview footage that appeared in the 1974 theatrical version (later released on VHS and Laserdisc) and subsequent "Director's Cut DVD" versions of ''Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii'', Waters stated that early UK pressings of the album contained excessive sibilance (a loud high-frequency sound most apparent on "s", "sh", and "t" sounds which often causes distortion). As Waters says in the film during a conversation with George Martin, the sibilant distortion was caused by "a bad cut", meaning it came from a poor quality tape-to-disk transfer during mastering. The sibilance problem was corrected in later pressings. ''Obscured by Clouds'' was the second Pink Floyd album to feature the VCS 3 synthesizer as stated by EMS Archives. Mason also plays electronic drums on this track.〔 After recording had finished, the band fell out with the film company, prompting them to release the soundtrack album as ''Obscured by Clouds'', rather than ''La Vallée''. In response, the film was retitled ''La Vallée (Obscured by Clouds)'' on its release.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Obscured by Clouds」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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