Just announced is the worldwide release – housed in a 7″ gatefold sleeve – of a special edition of Atom Heart Mother, originally sold only in Japan in August 2021. This is a very interesting package celebrating the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s pair of concerts at Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park, Hakone, Japan – the band’s first in that country. This special edition will be available from December 8th, 2023. The background to the release is this: an original 16mm film of Atom Heart Mother from the 1971 Hakone Aphrodite shows was recently discovered in a fan’s garage. A long time was spent digitizing, restoring and remastering, and to mark the 50th anniversary of the ’71 Hakone Aphrodite event, a special edition (a two disc set of a CD and Blu-ray) of the Atom Heart Mother album was released in Japan. Now, finally, this enhanced video will be released outside of Japan. The Blu-ray disc contains the restored footage of Atom Heart Mother, showing the band on stage performing the song, and travelling around Japan, together with some additional bonus footage of Pink Floyd’s crew, setting up the show, dealing with issues, etc., which hasn’t been seen before. The pack comes with a 60-page photo book with never-seen-before photos, a reproduction programme, venue map flyer, Osaka show poster and Hakone Aphrodite ticket reprint which all looks great! ORDERING INFO:A very nicely put together package – and orders are now possible through a number of retailers. Ordering any item after entering Amazon through our links helps with BD’s ongoing running costs as we participate in their affiliate programme, at no extra cost to yourselves, and we really appreciate it: Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0CLPKK7CL/braindamage-21), Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0CLFSNB5M/braindamage-20), Amazon Canada (http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0CLFSNB5M/braindamageon-20), Amazon France (https://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0CLPKK7CL/braindamageon-21), Amazon Germany (https://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0CLPKK7CL/braindamage0f-21), Amazon Spain (http://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B0CLPKK7CL/braidama01-21) and Amazon Italy (http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B0CLPKK7CL/bradamonl-21). You can also order through HMV.com (https://hmv.com/store/music/cd/atom-heart-mother-hakone-aphrodite-japan-1971-spec). If you want to see a quick comparison of a short part of the footage, comparing the newly restored film with what many of us will have been familiar with for many years, here’s something that Sony Music Japan put together in 2021:
