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Atom heart mother cover8/25/2023 ![]() If you're not sure about Geesin's role in the AHM track, listen to his collab with Roger Waters's The Body, and it'll all become clear, even if musically there is no resemblance between the two albums. Purple had failed as would Caravan later (although un-rehearsed), Procol only doing a readaptation of their better stuff, The Nice failing miserably on Ars Longa (etc.) but Floyd managed it well enough, but had to resort to outside help in the name of Ron Geesin. On the A-side, Floyd tried more successfully what many failed to do before them: integrating classical music and the symphonic orchestra and choirs into the rock fusion. No doubt Hypgnosis' cow un-tagged pastoral artwork helped out (it was a fad that Crimson and Zep tried before they did), but that doesn't explain much, especially with the sore studio experience of Ummagumma. Despite the album's flaws and it not always ageing well, I rank in the last category of fans, even if I wonder sometimes how this album became so successful. Alan Parsons / engineer Releases informationĬD EMI United Kingdom - CDEMD 1072 (1994, Europe) Remastered by Doug Sax with James GuthrieĬD EMI - 50999 028940 2 7 (2011, Europe) Remastered by James Guthrie with Joel PlanteĪHM is a very controversial album, decried by many as boring and pretentious (this usually the Barrett unconditionals pissing on Floyd's successful convalescence of their Syd-loss), almost disowned even by some Floyd members and hailed as the first giant step to the group's ascension to perfection ? it was after their first chart topping album. Haflidi Hallgrimsson / cello (uncredited) Philip Jones Brass Ensemble / brass (1,3) ![]() Roger Waters / bass & vocals & acoustic guitar (2), tape, Fx Richard Wright / keyboards (Hammond M102), vocals (3) David Gilmour / guitars, bass, drums & vocals (4) These are the reflections of the aforementioned duality, and Atom Heart Mother, an ode to this absurdity that perpetuates our lives ad infinitum, achieves something nobody else has achieved: the musical manifestation of humanity’s desired cosmic balance. Our lives are drawn between the edges of “wake up, eat, sleep” and “commit suicide because you have no purpose”. However, starting with societies of just 3 millennia ago, we concern our minds with questions such as humanity’s purpose, or the will of the gods. Inspired by a pregnant woman who had been fitted with a heart peacemaker, Atom Heart Mother provokes the subject of sapiens-made devices enabling the -still?- unexplained miracle of this world: life, soul, consciousness.Īpart from the two lyrics in English, all other are spoken out of authentic exclamation for the duality of our nature in the cosmos thus the absence of any specific language, and the presence of the universe-al one.įrom animals and early humans stems the intrinsic notion of survival eat, live. Such is the transcendence, that the band has been now criticizing this piece of their work, many years after its release. 【Live】原始神母2016「Atom Heart Mother」(pinkfloyd George Pink Floyd’s epic masterpiece in an out-of-this-world cover, by the Japanese cover band GENSHI SHINBO.
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