Pink Floyd - Cosmic Music

Pink Floyd

Cosmic Music

Stiftshof, Ossiach
July 1, 1971

discs: 1
recording type: AUD
shn: yes; book/page: 1/45
quality rating: A

[disc 1]
1. The Return of the Son of Nothing (22:31)
2. Careful With That Axe, Eugene (11:24)
3. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (12:01)
4. Atom Heart Mother * (27:54)

* with orchestra

http://www.pf-roio.de/roio/roio-cd/cosmic_music.cd.html

mono audience recording (claims to be stereo); it has been sourced either from tape or from digitally de-clicked vinyl. -CHOKSY

I'm especially amazed that no one has yet commented on the quality of this roio (that I've noticed), so I'm going to.

First, it's an ancient audience recording from 1971, so I guess I should invoke the usual caveat "for hard-cores only."

HOWEVER, I've noticed a few posts lately asking what roios a person should sample first from the category "for hard-cores only," and I urge *everyone* to try to locate this one, for three reasons:

(1) Our Lads were *especially* white-hot and adventuresome that night, and whipped out some of the best renditions of these tunes that I've ever heard.

(2) This CD was NOT SOURCED FROM VINYL! It has obviously been mastered from either the master tape recording, or some low generation copy of the master tape, and its fidelity and clarity and shear volume are as good as it gets for early-70s audience recordings.

(3) And last but certainly not least, this sucker is a *GOLD* CD which sells for a normal roio price (I paid $22).

Here's some more information about "Cosmic Music": Atom Heart Mother is performed with a full orchestra, damned near flawlessly and with boundless enthusiasm. The Return Of The Son Of Nothing (aka Echoes) has the alternate lyrics and some unusual and stunning guitar improvisations from David. And the psychedelic passages in CWTAE and Set The Controls are some of the most beautiful spaced out Floyd wiggling that this old burned out COD has ever heard...and I was straight and sober when I listened to it last night.

Honest, guys, I HIGHLY recommend that you make an all out effort to obtain this excellent roio; make it a Blues Brothers-style Mission From God. You won't be dissappointed. - GEORGE

It has the early version of Echoes, and it's quality is better than the other two RoIOs with the early version of Echoes. No tape hiss, and no audience noise. - ASAF

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