Matilda Mother
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| Song by Pink Floyd | ||
| from the album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn | ||
| Released | August 5, 1967 | |
| Recorded | February 1967 | |
| Genre | Psychedelic rock | |
| Length | 3:08 | |
| Label | Columbia/EMI (UK) Capitol (US) | |
| Writer(s) | Syd Barrett | |
| Producer(s) | Norman Smith | |
| The Piper at the Gates of Dawn track listing | ||
| Lucifer Sam (2) |
"Matilda Mother" (3) |
Flaming (4) |
Matilda Mother is a song by British psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, and is featured on their debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967). Written by Syd Barrett from a surrealistic perspective, the song is essentially a fairy tale that is being read to a child by his mother. The song is sung mostly by Richard Wright with Barrett joining in on the last verse.
The song starts with a very characteristic, unusual bass and organ interlude featuring the bass doing double stop licks . Roger Waters repeatedly plays the B on the 16th fret of the G-string by varying the lower note from D to F sharp on the D string. The guitar then enters with open chords around the B minor key. Opposed to many older beat and pop songs the guitar rarely plays chords. Often guitar player Syd Barrett and bassist Roger Waters play unisono lines. Organist Rick Wright does a solo based on indian modale scales. The songs ends with a simple blues waltz on E major with wordless vocal harmonies of Rick Wright and Syd Barrett.
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