MORE (OST)

'More' is the third studio album of Pink Floyd and was released in 1969. It's a psychedelic rock album that contains some acoustic folk ballads, a genre that appeared sparsely on Pink Floyd's later works. It also contains several instrumental tracks, featuring their experimental and avant garde approach. It was composed as a soundtrack for a film with the same name, directed by the Franco-Swiss film director and producer Barbet Schroeder. 'More' was the first full length soundtrack album of Pink Floyd, also released in the same year, and it was also the first time that they worked with this film director. Three years later, in 1972, Pink Floyd were once again invited by Barbet Schroeder to compose another soundtrack for a new film called 'La Vallee', that would result in a new Pink Floyd's album, their seventh studio album 'Obscured By Clouds'. This is Pink Floyd's first full album without founding member Syd Barrett.

'More' has thirteen tracks. The first track 'Cirrus Minor' written by Roger Waters is a very nice song to open the album and one of my favourites too. It's a slow song very beautiful and relaxing that begins with Roger Waters' acoustic guitar and that ends with a superb keyboard solo performed by Richard Wright. The second track 'The Nile Song' written by Roger Waters is a very heavy song, one of the heaviest songs written by them. It's a very enjoyable hard rock song with nice guitar solos and where David Gilmour screams instead of singing, which isn't very nice to hear, really. The third track 'Crying Song' written by Roger Waters is a nice and soft ballad where we can hear the voice of David Gilmour, which on this song sounds normal. It's basically an acoustic guitar song, very nice and pleasant to hear. The fourth track 'Up The Khyber' written by Richard Wright and Nick Mason is an instrumental track very short with a very cool drum beat and where Richard Wright plays his piano in a jazzy style. It's a very strange but a nice piece of music, really. The fifth track 'Green Is The Colour' written by Roger Waters is another soft and pleasant song. It's a very mellow acoustic ballad with very enjoyable guitar and piano works. This is a very soft song full of simplicity and beauty. The sixth track 'Cymbaline' written by Roger Waters is, in fact, a song that really sounds to Pink Floyd. It's a very nice song with good vocals that ends beautifully with a magnificent keyboard work that provides a nice closing to the song. The seventh track 'Party Sequence' written by Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason is one of the shortest tracks on the album. It's a brief and psychedelic song performed basically with bongos and a flute in the background. In my opinion, this is an irrelevant song to the album. The eighth track 'Main Theme' written by Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason is another instrumental track with some nice and interesting musical moments. It's a psychedelic song with the musical exploration of some electronic effects. This is a wonderful piece of music with good psychedelic explorative moments, making of it one of the best songs on the album. The ninth track 'Ibiza Bar' written by Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason is a rock song in the same vein of 'The Nile Song'. It's another hard rock song that shows us some of the earliest sounds of the future heavy metal sound. Here, again, David Gilmour screams instead of singing. These are two very similar songs. The tenth track 'More Blues' written by Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason is, as its name indicates, a blues song. It's a very short song with nice bluesy guitar and cool drumming but with nothing more interesting to add to the album. The eleventh track 'Quicksilver' written by Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason is clearly a journey and an incursion into the electronic music and experimentation. It's the lengthiest track on the album and I think this is a good psychedelic atmospheric instrumental song, very Floydian, and with a magnificent keyboard work by Richard Wright. It sounds a bit like to Tangerine Dream. The twelfth track 'A Spanish Piece' written by David Gilmour is a kind of a joke of David Gilmour. I don't like of this track and I sincerely think that it's completely useless on the album. It's probably the worst thing ever made by David Gilmour. The thirteenth and last track 'Dramatic Theme' written by Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason is an instrumental track very atmospheric, which fortunately ends the album well enough and very decently. It's an enjoyable track very close to 'Main Theme'.

Conclusion: As I wrote before when I reviewed 'Obscured By Clouds', I never was a big fan of film soundtracks made by progressive rock bands. Unlike 'La Vallee', a film that I saw once in the cinema when I was a teenager, as far as I can remember I never had the opportubity to see the film 'More'. However, the fact that I haven't seen the film, it isn't reallt an obstacle to review this album. After all, we are reviewing an album and not the soundtrack or the film itself. 'More' has some interesting musical moments but it isn't very well balanced. In reality, it isn't a bad album, but it seems to me more a bunch of experimental and psychedelic tracks than a real cohesive musical work. Like 'Obscured By Clouds', and 'Ummagumma', 'More' isn't, for sure, one of the best and most representative albums of Pink Floyd.

Prog is my Ferrari. Jem Godfrey (Frost*)

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