Ummagumma’s cover art is the second designed by Storm Thorgerson, who would go on collaborating with the band for almost all of their subsequent albums.

It is the last Pink Floyd cover art to feature photographs of the band members.

Its visual design, circling through all band members, reflects the record’s nature as a presentation of each band member, one at a time.

The art consists of a photograph showing all four then-members of Pink Floyd (David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Richard Wright), in a setting that is part-interior part-exterior.

In the background to the right is the exterior where Roger Waters is sitting on the floor of a porch. Further away is Nick Mason standing up and looking up towards the sky and the furthest back is Richard Wright laying on the grass with his legs upright.

The rest of the field is an interior shot of David Gilmour sitting on a stool in the center-right. The bottom field shows a carpeted floor with white letters spelling out “PINK FLOYD”, an empty glass jar and an LP vinyl record sleeve. On some editions of the cover, the vinyl sleeve is blank while in most editions, it is the sountrack to the 1958 film Gigi.

Finally the top-left of the field shows a frame in which hangs a very similar picture to this one: the setting and framing are exactly the same, but the band members swap places, this time showing Roger Waters sitting on the stool, Mason sitting on the floor, Wright standing up and Gilmour in the far back laying on the ground.

This process is repeated again (performing a false mise en abyme) for all band members to circle through all set positions, with the last and smallest one having Richard Wright sitting on the stool inside. On that last picture, the original version of the cover art features the cover to Pink Floyd’s second album A Saucerful Of Secrets, which was also designed by Storm Thorgerson’s Hipgnosis company.

More recent editions of the cover art perform a true mise en abyme by replacing the Saucerful cover art by a repetition of the Gilmour-in-the-front shot.

The inclusion of the words PINK FLOYD spelled out by accessories rather than a text overlay is very indicative of many of Storm Thorgerson’s subsequent works, which would rarely feature such overlays. Storm liked the picture to tell it all.

The cover art for Pink Floyd’s sophomore album marked the beginning of a long and fruitful collaboration between the band and artist Storm Thorgerson, who provided the vast majority of Pink Floyd’s subsequent cover arts.

Hipgnosis’s design for this cover is a heavy combination of various visuals, including a picture of four band members, mystic imagery and at least one comic book drawing.

The comic book drawing is an excerpt from a Doctor Strange story (see this Nightflight article for further analysis)

This image comes from a page of Strange Tales (1967) #158, illustrated by Marie Severin (Source).

There is another, yet unidentified character appearing in the center of the picture, slightly to the right.

Finally, the top of the picture reads “pinkfloyd”, with some letters of the word reappearing on the left and right corners, mimicking a rolling message.

Music From The Body is the soundtrack to Roy Battersby’s 1970 documentary, The Body. As the documentary’s main focus is its namesake, the soundtrack makes extensive use of actual human body sounds, from a very wide range (laughter, breathing, shouting, hand clapping, tooth grinding, flatulence, pleasure moanings, etc.).

The experimental music project is conducted by composer Ron Geesin and Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters, both of who also worked together the same year on Pink Floyd’s album, Atom Heart Mother.

“Give Birth To A Smile” is the closing track on the soundtrack to Roy Battersby’s 1970 documentary, The Body.

While the rest of the soundtrack, primarily composed by Ron Geesin, revolves significantly around actual human body noises, “Give Birth To A Smile”, written and composed by Waters, is more of a “traditional” musical song.

In addition to Geesin playing the piano and Waters playing the bass and singing, the song features uncredited female backing vocalists as well as David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright on the guitar, drums and Hammond organ, thus making this song an “unofficial” Pink Floyd song.