When we talk about 'Pink Floyd', we often have to do 2 types of fans: those who prefer the first part of career and those who began to know with 'The Wall'. For my part, I appreciate each period with necessarily a preference for early because they were precursors and it helped develop what is called the psychedelic and beyond progressive music. It is this first period that is put in the spotlight by the German 'RPWL' group that interprets 'The Man and The Journey' of 1969 where securities of the beginning of the career of the 'Floyd' but under different names to make them stick to the 2 concepts: the day of an ordinary man ('The Man') and a theme around the trip ('The Journey'). Must of course recover in the context of these years and thinking at the time, they were alien figure: rediscovered tracks from Ummagumma' or 'More' but also the pieces very forward on their time as 'Work', 'Doing It' or 'Sleep' (taking part of ' Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun' from the album 'A Saucerful of Secrets') who flirt with contemporary music. 'The Man' ends with the monumental 'Nightmare' who is none other than 'Cymbaline' from the album 'More' follow-up to a short cover of 'Grantchester Meadows"from Ummagumma' already using the ticking of the clock as a tempo. When the second part, it starts with 'The Beginning', whose original title was 'Green Is The Color' and the following 2 titles 'Vocals By Creatures of the Deep' for 'Careful With That Axe, Eugene' and 'The Narrow Way' ('David Gilmour' composition) are also on 'Ummagumma'. Then comes the 'Pink Jungle' which comes from the period 'Syd Barrett' ('The Piper at the Gates of Dawn') with her cries of animals. Following 'The Labyrinths of Auximenes', together sound effects built around the same Light sentence of manual and 'Behold the Temple of' piece highlighting the rooms of reverberation of the guitar in the background keyboards. The final 'The End Of The Beginning' is the second part of 'A Saucerful of Secrets' of Ummagumma' with the theme that rises in crescendo to end with the accompaniment to the song originally from 'Gilmour'. In summary, 'RPWL' makes us rediscover a work not very known but nevertheless major 'Floyds' which thanks to their creativity and their experimental compositions have been the pioneer and still constitute an inexhaustible source of inspiration even now for many artists...
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