Solarflares Burn For You (1973)
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Uploaded by BFIfilms on Jan 14, 2009
Road movie or acid trip? Throbbing to a hypnotic soundtrack by Soft Machine's Robert Wyatt, our journey starts in London - complete with a mime who looks like a refugee from 'Godspell'. The '70s then swing into an industry-scarred countryside made magical with day-glo pink skies, tangerine fields and acid-yellow roads. The British landscape has rarely looked more extraordinary. (Robin Baker)
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Glad someone made the film. I wouldn't. but I'm glad it was done. If it messes with viewers' monds, that's good too. The hippy mime was wise to stay in his safe neighbourhood ---
The travel shots look like the clay quarries around St Austell / St Day --- some good stock car racing in thos places~!
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Glad someone made the film. I wouldn't. but I'm glad it was done. If it messes with viewers' monds, that's good too. The hippy mime was wise to stay in his safe neighbourhood ---
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saucy
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mesmorisingly mouthwateringly beautiul
2 years ago 2
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by Robert Wyatt folks.
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Beautiful.
2 years ago 4
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Ta, thanks billyb4223. It's good to know I was on track with my guess.
3 years ago 2
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yes kenn, you're right. I did some quick research into this vid, and the music actualy waws recorded at the home studio of pink floyds Nick Mason in the spring of 1973.
3 years ago 2
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skippyrandom 3 years ago 22
Perhaps it's only me, but there's something distinctly early Pink Floyd-ish about the soundtrack. I love this work. Simply brilliant. It makes me wish I had been a bit older to have been able to enjoy the early 1970's more.
Kenn1965 3 years ago 9