

They arrived in Rome to start recording in November ’69.Īntonioni’s 1966 movie Blow-Up had been a clumsy portrayal of Swinging London, and Zabriskie Point was a drama about US student radicals fighting ‘the man’, blowing stuff up and having lots of sex. Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni had commissioned Pink Floyd to score his next film, Zabriskie Point. Finally, with Remergence, the piece carries on in a slow, peaceful way with a final feeling of acceptance that her child is gone.An album that ended with a cow in a field in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire began more than a year before in Rome. This perhaps symbolizes the mother's plea for the world to respect her sorrowful plight. Mind Your Throats Please is the bridge, where a male voice comes in and announces to the studio audience that "silence in the studio" is needed. Funky Dung is a slightly more upbeat section, with a small amount of hope, but still admitting the sadness that her baby is gone. Mother Fore is a piece of slow, somber music where the mother resignedly accepts that her child is gone and can no longer be found. Breasty Milky follows, and the mother raises her voice in defiance and defiance to find her child. In the first part, Father's Shout, the mother is mourning her child and calling out to him in despair.

The song is a multi-part suite, telling the story of an unnamed mother's struggle to come to terms with the fact that her child has been taken away. Atom Heart Mother is a song by Pink Floyd from their album of the same name.
