For six hundred pounds per band member, Pink Floyd was recruited in 1969 by the young French / Swiss filmmaker Barbet Schroeder to provide the soundtrack for his debut film More. At the time, the group was working on Ummagumma's studio album, which progressed with difficulty thanks to the imposed rule that each member had to make an individual piece. The recordings of More were thus a welcome outing
… for the group still suffering from the loss of frontman Syd Barrett. Perhaps that's why More turns out so well. It is a real stoner and psych album avant la lettre, full of ferocious rock songs, jams and pastoral-like songs, mainly from Roger Waters' pen. The song Cymbaline, in which the aforementioned elements come together nicely, is a Pink Floyd classic and was expanded on stage with a long sequence in which footsteps zigzagged through the hall via the quadraphonic sound system and creaking doors opened and slammed on all sides. The album turned out to be more successful than the film (a somewhat endless hippie story) and reveals the foundations of the creative Pink Floyd that would break through four years later with The Dark Side Of The Moon. (MR)more
