While not immediately abrasive, galactic or even heavy, is at leastĬohesive in sound and design and introduces the following album, theīand’s first foray without Syd Barret, Meddle. Of obvious hit singles from their last two albums. After much sequencing work wasĭone, we are left with two sides of music that find this Barrett-ledįloyd attempting a new musical direction, maybe a response to the lack Schizophrenic and honestly slick early 70s pop-production of many of theīarrett tracks seemed to pair well with the sound of Atom Heart Mother,Ī sound Pink Floyd continued to refine. This seemed to be an appropriate choice, as the more low-key, less My solution was to design Themes From An Imaginary Western as a collection of the decidedly Pink Floydian Barrett solo tracks, all interconnected with instrumental passages from Atom Heart Mother. Re-imaginings, but the task is much more difficult here, as Pink Floyd’sĬontributions from Atom Heart Mother began to solidify the artistic visions that saw the creation of the classic Pink Floyd albums throughout the decade.
This was an easy ethos to mimic on my first two Improvisational, instrumental and experimental quartet Pink Floyd of the Primarily been a singles-oriented band, as opposed to the largely Themes From An Imaginary Western uses Syd Barrett’s second and final solo album Barrett and Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart MotherĪs source material, as both albums were recorded around the same time.Īs we’ve already established, a Syd Barrett-led Pink Floyd would have Most of their career it seemed appropriate for this material. Sides of music with the “Atom Heart Mother” theme bookending the album,Īn aesthetic first explored by Pink Floyd at this time and continued for The entire album has been crossfaded and edited into two continuous Is the theoretical album that would have been released in 1970 by a Sydīarrett-led Pink Floyd, following my other two re-imagined albums,ġ969’s Vantage Point and 1968’s The Shape of Questions To Heaven. This is the final installment of a trilogy of “re-imagined” albums that postulates “ What if Syd Barrett hadn’t been fired from Pink Floyd?” Themes From An Imaginary Western,Ī title derived from an early moniker of the song “Atom Heart Mother”,
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