Syd est le brillant reflet d'une époque, sa musique un astéroïde fantôme qui revient jeter son dévolu sur l'art sonore. Une onde prodigieuse chargée de paradoxes d'où s'échappent l'obscurantisme la féérie et l'irrationnel, facteurs hypnotiques défiant les âmes vulnérables en quête d'absolu. Son architecture musicale tourmentée est un court tunnel qui mène à la lumière 🤠
Here we do taste melodic contours known and loved by Hindus, but there is also an absolutely new harmonic material which brings us prisms, clusters of chords, light chimes and tinkling of garlands. What strikes first of all in this music is, on the one hand, the penetrating charm of the harmonic aggregations and, on the other hand the absolute clarity of the intervals 🔥🕊
The wait was worth it. The fidelity of the recording alone fully elucidates the performances. All that is left is to work out who is playing what - so much personality.
This sums up my psychedelic neurons left in my brain 🧠 im 55, piper was always my go to plus madcap, im intoverted and recluse just as l immagined it to be. Thank you for this beautifully memorie. Peace to you all, wish you were here right now sipping on mushroom tea 🍵 ❤
Jazz and pop music really don't mix. One is free style and the other is meant to be radio friendly. You're not gonna get to many requests for this kinda music unless you're all stoned out in some dark lit club.
It gets good around the 11 to 12 minute mark - before that it's them trying to tune into each other and it's a bit of a mess - meandering jams aren't hard to do but everyone needs to be in the same musical head space. I'm a big Syd fan and a big early Softs fan. The last few minutes do sound like Hopper and Ratledge but I won't listen to this again.
honestly why would you surjudge this piece, everyone knows Syd is absolutely hard to work with, this track was recorded after he quit PinkFloyd and it's actually recognizable that it's a mess, yet, it's a good mess, everyone in this comment section appreciate the music, you're the only one disliking it and from my opinion you're not JK Simons to be this rude. :D
When I was an animator, I’d listen to music to keep focus. After about a decade songs got irritating and repetitive; improv jams and formless explorations like this were what I’d rely on as ambience. Like classical music, it takes a while to learn to listen. Friends would just hear noise; I heard music that travels places. It reminds me of hiking a new trail or riding a bike through a strange city.
Are you really honest when you say that this is great? I love Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett and I love jazz but I find nothing interesting in that piece of music. It's just an uninspired jam with no melodic lines to support good improvisations.
despite what you might read in the comments soft machine did not play on this..by their own admission they were first contacted by barrett after a gig they did at the hundred club in london in march 1969 and were booked by barrett to do one session on the 3rd may 1969 overdubbing the barrett tracks 'clowns and jugglers','no good trying',and 'love you'....this track is from june 8th 1968-much earlier-at that time the ayers line up of soft machine was busy touring the states and hugh hopper had yet to join soft machine
So is it just Syd and Took? Someone pointed out that it wouldn’t be likely for Syd to have gone and overdubbed the track loads of times to add the effects plus guitars and mellotron (assuming that’s him playing bass), unless it was done at a later time like when they did all those overdubs for the Madcap Laughs songs he did in ‘68?
People actually hate thinkers and real talent there is a long history of that. The English media and collective consciousness has virtually destroyed everything of great substance since it's existence. The English media is still killing and torchering it's victims whom are all the contributors to their culture and virtues. That is why fox has been so successful bin UK. Yt is no better. Anyway who cares I enjoy the music and not interested what anyone else thinks about it
After all these years of being a massive floyd fan, including all 5 members solo gear, then I stumble upon this little hidden jem. Shame about the title though.
It was originally a (now expired) download-only exclusive, and afterwards, I figured they thought this wasn’t interesting enough for most Syd fans to bother including. They were wrong, of course. Post-modernism always gets in the way of such brilliant tracks being heard.
This is brilliant. I think it’s possible that part of Syd’s decision making was he was a true artist and wanted to get away from the hype. This is music at its best.
That could have been the best Pink Floyd album cover yet! Is it a Hipgnosis picture? Haven't even come close to reading all of the comments, but some interesting prespective from what I have read! Maybe this has already been discussed. Didn't know this existed, but I've been a big Floyd/Soft Machine fan since the early 70s. Great stuff!
It’s the cover to the “Introduction to Syd Barrett” compilation that David Gilmour executive produced, and which features a few remixes of Syd’s tracks. Unfortunately, “Rhamadan” was a download-only track which has since expired. I really wish they’d release “Rhamadan” as a Record Store Day exclusive, at least. And yes, the album cover’s by Storm.
@@andreazavareei6548 Very digitally compressed, though, a victim of the loudness wars. I got a copy, just to check the waveforms. The iTunes bonus track is the best-sounding source for this track.
