Boronalli: KQED: An Hour With Pink Floyd directed by Bob Diehl

the concert of Hyde Park, mixed with an organization of cords and brass orchestra which killed in the egg all its rocky lightnings. Since then, the fevered quest did not contain of filmed clips, bootleg albums, then at the age of the net, fragments of concerts with a more or less good character in Florida or in Japan, of a point in BBC or a concert in Saint Tropez. And miracle, the without-public concert done for QKED was recorded with high video and sound quality, and reappeared recently. In a studio without public, on April 29th, 1970, Pink Floyd on stage play a point where in an hour, alternately acoustical or electrical. They are passing to form a mosaic of their three albums an hour, " Ummagumma ", "More" and "Atom heart mother".

It opens with " the thing ", 19 minutes of "Atom Heart Mother", its topic, its guitar riff, its cosmic ravings and final. "Cymbaline" and "Grantchester meadows" follow, and electricity again with "Green is the colour" chained with a furious "Careful with that axe Eugene" to end in a dreamy way with "Set the controls for the sum of the sun".

The voice is really good, perfectly restored (from the 3/4" original master) and pictures come from a rerun of the point in August, 1981. The picture starts and ends with pictures of in-flight fields taken in low flying, with hyper-saturated colours, a bit "forced " but as a result well-deserved psychedelic style. For those for whom true Pink Floyd is that early "Dark face of the moon", this concert will be the objective to be cherished, so often the concerts of this tour were artistic and emotional peaks of the band. Each of four members is on his place, but with all his place, necessary part of an enchanting jigsaw puzzle. Graal belongs to you. Franois Branchon