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Their first album without Syd and a full lenght soundtrack. It was the first album to be produced by the band as well (exit Norman Smith). They already did three partial soundtracks during their young career : "'Tonight! Let's All Make Love in London", "San Francisco", as well as "The Committee" (featuring The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown). This one included an early version of "Careful with That Axe, Eugene".

Roger would have like the Floyd to make the "Space Odyssey" soundtrack, but they were not selected. They will still create several pieces of music for some European televisions (BBC, etc.) for the coverage of the man landing on the moon (not yet its dark side though...).

I guess that if you have seen the movie (which is not my case) you could relate the music to the movie and appreciate a bit more. The influence of Waters is obvious on this record : there are only two numbers in which he was not involved "Up the Khyber" from Mason & Wright and "A Spanish Piece" from Gilmour (his first Floyd composition on his own).

The opener "Cirrus Minor" is a very spacey track and I guess a great background music for a movie (although I haven't seen it). The first part has very childish and naïve vocals but the second is almost a clone for ASOS ("Celestial Voices" part). It is one of the highlights.

"The Nile Song" is a psychedelic track that could have fit on "Piper" although the shouting vocals are a bit "too much". It was also released as a single (in continental Europe, Japan and ... New Zealand). "Crying Song" and "Green is the Colour" are accoustic ballads of no interest. "Up the Khyber" is a jazzy impro (again Mason's drumming is very similar to the one of "Set The controls..."). That will not be regarded as their greatest tune. Forget this one as well.

"Cymbaline" is the second highlight and will be one of their fave live tracks of the era. Good melody, "trip" oriented, quiet & mellow but nice song with a spacey feeling in the last third part.

"Party Sequence" last for seventy seconds, which is good news.

With "Main Theme", we have a more elaborated song. Quite remininscent of ASOS (the track) in its intro. A bit of Oriental influence (but this is not the first time in early Floyd's work) and good psyche moments make this song one of the best of this album.

"Ibiza Bar" is in the same vein as (actually almost similar) "Nile Song". As all the Floyd members have said, the influence of Syd is obvious on some of their later work. This is the kind of track which confirms this. "More Blues" is as you could have imagined a instrumental bluesy one. Press forward if you have the CD version.

"Quicksilver" could have been a part of the track "A Saucerful". Another good psychedelic moment although it sounds like a "studio improv" with little emotion or feeling. "A Spanish Piece" (sixty five seconds) is a flamenco sort of song from Gilmour. He should have waited a bit more before composing for the Floyd. We would have avoided this one. Skip it by all means. "Dramatic Theme" is a short combined effort of the band (except Mason) but is to be forgotten as soon as you've heard it. Some good tunes (but no memorable ones) and some real weak numbers. Two stars.