A Soniclovenoize re-imagining
Side A:
1. Father's Shout
2. Baby Lemonade
3. Wined and Dined
4. Rise and Shine
5. Gigolo Aunt
6. Mind Your Throats Please
7. Fat Old Sun
Side B:
8. Love Song
9. Wolfpack
10. Dominoes
11. Sunny Side Up
12. Summer '68
13. Effervescing Elephant
14. Father's Shout (Remergence)
This is the final installment of a trilogy of "re-imagined" albums that postulates "What if Syd Barrett hadn't been fired from Pink Floyd?". Themes From An Imaginary Western, a title derived from an early moniker of the song Atom Heart Mother, is the theoretical album that would have been released in 1970 by a Syd Barrett-led Pink Floyd, following my other two re-imagined albums, 1969's Vantage Point and 1968's The Shape of Questions To Heaven. The entire album has been crossfaded and edited into two continuous sides of music with the Atom Heart Mother theme bookending the album, an aesthetic first explored by Pink Floyd at this time and continued for most of their career; it seemed appropriate for this material.
Themes From An Imaginary Western uses Syd Barrett's second and final solo album Barrett and Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother as source material, as both albums were recorded around the same time. As we've already established, a Syd Barrett-led Pink Floyd would have primarily been a singles-oriented band, as opposed to the largely improvisational, instrumental and experimental quartet Pink Floyd of the late 60s. This was an easy ethos to mimic on my first two re-imaginings, but the task is much more difficult here, as Pink Floyd's contributions from Atom Heart Mother began to solidify the artistic visions that saw the creation of the classic Pink Floyd albums throughout the decade.
Beginning Side A, the main theme from Atom Heart Mother (subtitled A Father's Shout, and is indicated as such here) was used to introduce the album and somehow fits perfectly crossfaded into Baby Lemonade, which in turn is hard edited into Wined and Dined. An instrumental interlude in the form of Rise and Shine (from Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast) introduces Gigolo Aunt, which is crossfaded into a piece of the experimental section of Atom Heart Mother (subtitled Mind Your Throats Please) and finally into Gimour's contribution to the album, the majestic side-closer Fat Old Sun. Side B begins with the closest to a hit single on this album, Love Song, followed by the paranoiac Wolfpack. Dominoes segues into another instrumental interlude culled from Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast (subtitled Sunny Side Up) which leads into the epic Summer '68. Barrett's last word with Pink Floyd becomes one of his most noteworthy songs, the child-like Effervescing Elephant, crossfaded into the grand finale of the album, the closing reprise of the Atom Heart Mother theme (subtitled Remergence).
Sources used:
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother (1994 MFSL remaster)
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother (2011 EMI remaster)
Syd Barrett - Barrett (1994 Harvest remaster)
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