As well as Amazon Japan, this is also available via CDJapan (note that Amazon Japan doesn’t except existing Amazon credentials, you have to create a new account).And yet the album that Pink Floyd’s two main protagonists at the time were so quick to dismiss was a landmark on many levels: the first British ‘rock’ album to feature one track covering an entire side of vinyl the first to appear without any indication on the sleeve of who the group was or what the album was called, or indeed any information whatsoever the first Floyd album to feature an outside writer (Ron Geesin, who co-wrote the monumental 23-minute title track) the first Floyd album to be specially mixed for four-channel quadraphonic sound as well as conventional two-channel stereo and, despite all this, the first Floyd album to go to No.1 in the UK chart.Ītom Heart Mother marked the moment that Pink Floyd came in from the cold of their post-Barrett malaise and found the way forward, towards everything we now remember them best for. This presentation comes with a whole host of paper items including a reprint of the OBI-strip, a photo booklet of unpublished photos, a Hakone Aphrodite programme reprint, a reproduction of the venue guide map, an Osaka performance poster, a Hakone Aphrodite ticket reprint and access to a special digital booklet, Recollection Hakone Aphrodite 1971.Ītom Heart Mother limited Japanese-only CD+blu-ray will be released on 4 August 2021. In fact, if you order from Amazon Japan what they are calling a ‘mega-jacket’ (24cm x 24cm, or about 9.5 inches) is also included, although these are limited on a first-come-first-served basis. It comes in traditional Japanese ‘paper sleeve’ packaging but it’s seven-inch square, not standard five-inch, CD-size. The lavish packaging in the Japanese exclusive CD+blu-ray of Atom Heart Mother (click to enlarge) This combo-pack features the album on CD and the video of the live performance on the blu-ray along with ‘Scott & Watts’ – Hakone Aphrodite B-roll footage.īecause this is a Japanese release, (exclusive – thought to be down to licensing issues), it is lavishly packaged. The festival was on the 6 and 7 August 1971 and this was Pink Floyd’s first visit to Japan.
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