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Absolutely Curtains

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A-side
  
"Free Four" (Japan)

Length
  
5:51

Format
  
7"

Released
  
3 June 1972 (UK) 15 June 1972 (US)

Recorded
  
February, March 1972 at Château d'Hérouville, Hérouville, France

Genre
  
Progressive rock, world music, instrumental rock

"Absolutely Curtains" is a mostly instrumental track written by Rick Wright (although it lists the whole band as writers on the Obscured by Clouds album), which closes Pink Floyd's 1972 album Obscured by Clouds.

Contents

Chant

The last part of the track is a chant by the Mapuga tribe of New Guinea recorded for La Vallée, the film to which Obscured by Clouds is the soundtrack.

Personnel

  • Richard Wright – Farfisa and Hammond organ, tack piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, VCS3 synthesiser
  • Nick Mason – percussion and cymbals
  • with:

  • Mapuga tribe – vocalisations
  • References

    Absolutely Curtains Wikipedia


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