"I WAS A BIG FAN OF THE FIRST TWO FLOYD RECORDS..."
PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a then young French film director Barbet Schroeder (b. 1941), writer-director of the film "More," his feature film debut, and his connection to English psychedelic and/or progressive rock band PINK FLOYD.
"It was a commison for another film, French director Barber Schroeder's earthbound "More," that became their next album. "I was a big fan of the first two Floy records," Schroeder said in 2006. "I thought they were the most extraordinary things I'd ever heard, and I wanted to work with them."
Schroeder flew to London with a copy of his film: a story of drug taking and thrill seeking in Ibiza, and containing a copious amount of artistic nudity. He convinced Pink Floyd to write the soundtrack (for the princely sum of £600 each), but with one caveat.
“Barbet didn’t want a soundtrack to go behind the movie,” Waters said. “He wanted it literally. So if a radio was switched on in a car, he wanted the music to come out of the car. He wanted it to relate to exactly what was happening in the movie.”
More was recorded in a nine-day marathon at London’s Pye studios in early ’69, and released in August. “A lot of the moods in the film were ideally suited to some of the rumblings, squeaks and sound textures we produced on a regular basis,” suggested Mason.
Perhaps surprisingly, More’s curious hybrid of pop, jazz, electronica and even heavy metal made the Top 10. Crucially, songs such as the sweetly melodic "Cymbaline" and "Green is the Colour" pushed David Gilmour’s voice to the fore.
“Doing film music was a path we thought we could follow in the future,” said Gilmour. “It wasn’t that we wanted to stop being a rock’n’roll band, it was more of an exercise.""
-- CLASSIC ROCK/LOUDER SOUND, "How Pink Floyd reinvented themselves and journeyed towards the Dark Side," by Mark Blake, last updated September 20, 2022
Source: www.pressreader.com/uk/classic-rock/20210302/281505048937744.