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ATOM HEART MOTHER

Pink Floyd

 

Psychedelic/Space Rock

3.91 | 2552 ratings

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alainPP
3 stars 1 Atom Heart Mother with the intro of a fast '2001', a bit of Summer for the psychedelic trumpets, the symphony orchestra and the original Grandiloquence; this dreamlike rise, this air coming from Olympus, these aerial choirs wandering on the musical limbo, incidentally entering your ears to delight in your earwax, drink it and get drunk dancing naked; in short before there was nothing, now we know that there is the Floydian standard value; the choirs are getting stronger, masculinized, no iel here, it's purity without distortion; it swells, well the recording is still as serious, it lacks treble, does anyone have a better quality recording? Wow wow ahh, ahhh, I'm spellbound. The organ with a melting blow that will launch into a jazz-rock variation with the airy, Floydian guitar, finally you see, one that tears. 12 minutes and we are already halfway through, think of a title of a single piece, 6 drawers; crazy noises then the orchestra that comes back with the big tuba; psychedelic break more than that you can't with a sound that will look at the TANGERINE DREAM at 17 minutes, surprising; a train yes that passes then the air of the departure that comes back through this slightly singular experiment; hey I understand why I immediately loved the SIGUR ROS; the organ, the Cello, the intoxicating, the condescension, the music raised to its pedestal for a pure atmospheric art-rock, majestic symphonic that will not have a sequel. One of the major symphonic pieces of musical time.

2 If side B and the beginning of the stereo with the musicians playing it, a fact from yesteryear; guitar arpeggio on the left, vocal on the right with the bass, central solo in the back or the beginning of the Hi-Fi chains; in short the BEATLES tried it, the FLOYD with their psychedelic period also got into it; the piano ties it all together on this consensual kitsch piece that wouldn't pass today even for PINK FLOYD 3 Summer '68 which starts on the right with the piano this time; a substitute for a bucolic nursery rhyme from yesteryear, again, with a beautiful organ; the explosive catchy chorus on the BEATLES with the rhythm that goes into grandiloquence, trumpet and drums of Albion brigands; for the one who was in mono it must have been hard not to appreciate this binary effect, for the others it's great; the Olympian orchestral finale is dantesque all the same 4 Fat Old Sun go bells in the distance, a Beatlesian title at full blast and the serenade encore, with the drums well to the left, Nick on one side, David on the other 5 Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast and the piece in 3 parts, the cinematic well before its time, perhaps one of the most famous sound breakfasts with the match; later, we will have the real breakfast 'made in America' without matches but with eggs and bacon; let's go back to this piano, ah cut, let's go back to the progressive avant-garde, walk... there you are right in it; the slow acoustic decline before cooking the eggs and bacon; well we clean our dishes, think about the tap that runs, that drips, in short you have passed the test, you are one of those who understood that music was not just Kleenex.

alainPP | 3/5 |

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