CIRRUS MINOR (Roger Waters) in « More Soundtrack » (1969) & « Relics » (1971) | Produced by Pink Floyd.
David Gilmour: acoustic guitar, double-tracked vocals; Richard Wright: Farfisa organ, Hammond organ; Roger Waters: bass guitar.
Cirrus Minor is one of the higher cloud formation. The sound effect at the beginning of the song come from the EMI sounds recordings (« Birds Dawn Chorus »).
Interviewer: «Als jullie geluiden, bijvoor-beeld van vogels gebruiken, met welk doel is dat?
Rick Wright: « Omdat we dat mooi vinden. Een zingende vogel maakt mu-zick en veel uit het dagelijkse leven is muziek; eigenlijk alles wat aangenaam is voor het ge-hoor. Dat laatste is wel erg be-langrijk. Zoek er niet teveel achter »
«Pink Floyd - Paarde, Orkanen & Vu urpijlen», Aloha, 16 June 1972
In a churchyard by a river
Lazing in the haze of midday
Laughing in the grasses and the graves
Yellow bird, you are not lone
In singing and in flying on
In laughing and in leaving
Willow weeping in the water
Waving to the river daughters
Swaying in the ripples and the reeds
On a trip to Cirrus Minor
Saw a crater in the sun
A thousand miles of moonlight later
THE NILE SONG (Roger Waters) • « More » (1969) / « Relics » (1971)| Produced by Pink Floyd
David Gilmour: vocals, electric guitars; Roger Waters: bass; Nick Mason: drums.
During a concert in Hamburg on 14 November 1970, a spectator clamoured to hear it live: demonstrating the little consideration the Floyd themselves gave the song, Waters replied with cynical irony that he had never heard of it. The song was later revisited by the band Nick Mason’s A Saucerful of secrets by request by Guy Pratt.
I was standing by the Nile
When I saw the lady smile
I would take her out for a while
For a while
My tears wept like a child
How her golden hair was blowing wild
Then she spread her wings to fly
For to fly
Soaring high above the breezes
Going always where she pleases
She will make it to the islands in the sun
I will follow in her shadow
As I watch her from my window
One day I will catch her eye
She is calling from the deep
Summoning my soul to endless sleep
She is bound to drag me down
Drag me down
CRYING SONG (Roger Waters) in « More » (1969) | Produced by Pink Floyd
David Gilmour: vocals, classical acoustic guitar, lead electric guitar, backing vocals; Rick Wright: vibraphone; Roger Waters: Fender Precision bass; Nick Mason: Snare drums.
At the conclusion of the song, David Gilmour croons a line that connects to the ancient Greek myth about Sisyphus, who was commanded by Zeus to push a large rock up a mountain for eternity. This story would later be put into music in « Ummagumma »..
We roll and roll
We roll and roll
Help me roll away the stone
We smile and smile
We smile and smile
Laughter echoes in your eyes
We climb and climb
We climb and climb
Footfalls softly in the pines
We cry and cry
We cry and cry
Sadness passes in a while
GREEN IS THE COLOUR (Roger Waters) in « More » (1969) | Produced by Pink Floyd
David Gilmour: vocals, acoustic rhythm guitar, classical lead guitar; Rick Wright: piano, organ, Farfisa; Roger Waters: bass guitar; Lindy Mason: penny whistle.
This song became a milestone for the live performances from 1969 through 1970 with some additional live renditions in the 1971 tour. It was played for the first for the first « Man and journey » performance on 14 April 1969 and for the last time in Australia, on 15 August 1971.In The Man and The Journey suite, the song was retitled “The Beginning” in “The Journey” half of the show.. Soon the track will be segued with Careful with that Axe, Eugène.
Heavy hung the canopy of blue
Shade my eyes and I can see you
White is the light that shines through the dress that you wore
She lay in the shadow of the wave
Hazy were the visions of her playing
Sunlight on her eyes but moonshine made her blind ev’ry time
Green is the colour of her kind
Quickness of the eye deceives the mind
Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned
UP THE KHYBER (Richard Wright/Nick Mason) • « More » (1969)| Produced by Pink Floyd
Nick Mason: Drums; Richard Wright: Organ, piano; Roger Waters: Bass guitar.
This is the first and only track credited solely for Nick and Rick. The name Khyber designs the mountain pass in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, on the border with the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan. But in the traditional spirit of the band, which takes pleasure in adopting titles with a double meaning, « Up the Khyber » is a slang word who meaning « ass ». This tile could be an allusion to a anal sexual act. Some extracts was sampled by Massive attack for his title Group four.
CYMBALINE (Roger Waters) in « More » (1969)| Produced by Pink Floyd
David Gilmour: vocals, classical guitar; Rick Wright: piano, organ; Roger Waters: bass guitar; Nick Mason: drums, congas; Lindy Mason: penny whistle.
The title is a reference to the Shakespeare’s « The Tragedie of Cymbeline » with a play on words with the word Cymbal. The thematic is about The lyrics is about nightmare (who was the title when played in the « Man & the journey » suite) The song also makes reference to the Marvel Comics character Doctor Strange. Doctor Strange also made an appearance on the cover of Pink Floyd’s second album, A Saucerful of Secrets.
The recording of ‘“Cymbaline” on the album is different from the one in the film (the latter version is heard on a record player in a bedroom). The vocals are a different take, the studion version being sung by David Gilmour, and the film version by Roger Waters. The lyrics are also different in one place. One notable feature of the lyrics is the question posed at the end of the first verse, “Will the final couplet rhyme”. Not coincidentally, the final couplet in the song is the only one that does not rhyme. Pink Floyd played “Cymbaline” from early 1969 until their last show of 1971, and it was the longest-surviving More piece in the band’s live shows.
The live performance featured a middle break with sound effects of a man who try to escape from a maze by opening doors, by running through corridors. The audience was submerged by the quadraphonics sounds displayed by the famous « Azimuth Coordinator » while the hall was in a complet darknesS.
The path you tread is narrow
And the drop is shear and very high
The ravens all are watching
From a vantage point nearby
Apprehension creeping
Like a tube-train up your spine
Will the tightrope reach the end?
Will the final couplet rhyme?
And it’s high time!
Cymbaline
It’s high time!
Cymbaline
Please wake me
A butterfly with broken wings
Is falling by your side
The ravens all are closing in
And there’s nowhere you can hide
Your manager and agent
Are both busy on the phone
Selling coloured photographs
To magazines back home
And it’s high time!
Cymbaline
It’s high time!
Cymbaline
Please wake me
The lines converging where you stand
They must have moved the picture plane
The leaves are heavy around your feet
You hear the thunder of the train
And suddenly it strikes you
That they’re moving into range
And Doctor Strange is always changing size
And it’s high time!
Cymbaline
It’s high time!
Cymbaline
Please wake me
And it’s high time!
Cymbaline
It’s high time!
Cymbaline
Please wake me
PARTY SEQUENCE (Roger Waters/Richard Wright/David Gilmour/Nick Mason) • « More » (1969)| Produced by Pink Floyd
An alternative take is used in the trailer of the movie
MAIN THEME (David Gilmour, Richard Wright, Nick Mason & Roger Waters) • « More » (1969)| Produced by Pink Floyd
David Gilmour: Electrics guitars; Rick Wright: Organ; Roger Waters: bass guitar, sounds effects; Nick Mason: drums, congas, percussion.
The track is the main theme of the movie. The chords progression was reprised for Dramatic Theme. The track was played in rare occasions in live at the beginning of 1970.
IBIZA BAR (Roger Waters/Rick Wright/David Gilmour/Nick Mason) in « More » (1969)
David Gilmour: vocals, electric rhythm and lead guitar, backing vocals; Roger Waters: bass guitar; Rick Wright: organ, piano; Nick Mason: Drums/
MORE BLUES (Roger Waters, Rick Wright, David Gilmour, Nick Mason) in « More » (1969) | Produced by Pink Floyd
David Gilmour: electric lead guitar; Roger Waters: bass guitar; Rick Wright: organ; Nick Mason: drums.
David Gilmour: electric lead guitar; Roger Waters: Gong; Rick Wright: vibraphone, Farfisa organ.
A SPANISH PIECE (David Gilmour) in « More » (1969) | Produced by Pink Floyd.
David Gilmour: acoustic classical guitar, vocalisations.
Gilmour: « Ce n’est rien. Ni un morceau, ni une chanson. Je ne connais pas un guitariste qui ne sache pas faire des trucs de merde comme cette musique espagnole. Il y a une erreur sur la pochette. C’est moi qui l’ai joué, mais personne ne l’a écrit»
Interviewer: «C’est une improvisation».
Gilmour: «Si tu veux... non, c’est le plagiat d’une espagnolade. Cela sortait d’un transistor dans le film. C’est pour ça»
«Les Pink Floyd en studio», PopMusic Superhebdo, April 1972
Roger Waters:
« We were told one bit had to be coming out of a radio in a Spanish bar, so we had to do something that suggested that. In the middle of it, David tried to make the sort of speech noises you'd expect to hear »
Pass the tequila, Manuel
Listen, gringo, laugh at my lisp and I kill you
I think
This Spanish music
It sets my soul on fire
Lovely señorita
Your eyes are like stars
Your teeth are like pearls
Your ruby lips
DRAMATIC THEME (Roger Waters/Rick Wright/David Gilmour/Nick Mason) in « More » (1969) | Produced by Pink Floyd
David Gilmour: electric lead guitar; Rick Wright: organ; Roger Waters: bass guitar; Nick Mason: drums.
