Syd Barrett is the star of one of pop's most fascinating stories, the short, intense career of a musician who said what until then seemed inexpressible. A magician come from another galaxy and as one who embodied the meaning of psychedelics and mind expansion, a builder of songs that followed the tradition of a legendary and unknown Martian civilization to which he alone had access. His work, which comprises just three discs, contains moments of extreme agitation, disturbing spiral passages worlds lost in the depths of our spirit, Twilight slides that are shown in great detail. Syd Barrett went crazy after recording their only album with Pink Floyd in that magical year of 1967 in which the best bands competed to achieve the ultimate masterpiece of pop. His light came to infinity, so it burned quickly. 
"Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play" were the two steps needed to push to Pink Floyd to fame. The first contains all the ingredients that made their songs Barrett pills lysergic acid music: a guitar of expectation, tense, with the sound of rocket engines to take off, batteries and a martial tune that exotic beauty suddenly opens into a landscape indecipherable, mysterious, ancient. This can be seen especially in "See Emily Play", which won immediate impact: a sense of danger about to lose the coordinates, to remain floating in space. However, this imminent danger is what leads us to contemplate what otherwise could not: the deep abyss of forgotten dreams, where for centuries the rivers flow, oblivious to time. Menace and beauty are two elements that go hand in hand in the best songs from Barrett. 
Pink Floyd, accustomed to offering the very long improvisations in concerts, at a time that pretentious, art and virtuosity began to take command of what would be the music of the coming years, are forced in 1967 materialize and cut his excesses to a record market-oriented pop. Haberles could not have been better. The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn is an exceptionally evocative album, an instant trip to the bottom of the mind, a masterpiece of its maker, Syd Barrett, was unable to complete while on the road forever your concept of reality. Four minutes short of "Astronomy Domine" is for the listener authentic astral projection effects, the guitars are twisted each other to create an environment that suggests infinity, nothingness, the heartbeat of the universe, as Barrett sings like a illuminated, as if they read along to a pagan god, ending with a chorus of apostles make this song a psalm of an alien religion. The secret of the style of Pink Floyd was the unpredictability of Syd Barrett, in a manner highly reminiscent of the visions of Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators , but from a more refined pop sensibility. "Lucifer Sam", the second song is totally threatening, reveals the evil that lurks in the blind spots of our perception, which are revealed when the acid opens our senses. 
the same feeling we have in "Matilda Mother", a children's story which shows a certain perverse sense, like Little Red Riding Hood was to slaughter in As we despistáramos. But the revelation comes atop arguably with "Flaming", full of magic, almost esoteric, with accurate sound effects that increase the feeling onore almost to the audiovisual experience, and an acoustic guitar who stars in the most exciting moment in which Barrett sings again as the prophet of the imagination and conveys tenderness and menace, death and peace. Unforgettable. The instrumental "Pow R. Toc H.", on the other hand, plays to create a jungle environment, tribal, between rows of jazz piano and volcanic explosions. "Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk", the only song on the disc Waters is considered by many as a nuisance. I disagree, though much more standard than the astral crazy not forget that Barrett was a genius, ends up being a punch resultón garage with an addictive chorus. 
"Interstellar Overdrive" is a recording of one of its climactic moments in the concerts. Pink Floyd spent much of 1967 trying to compress this issue, which could last scene about an hour, about ten minutes that will not derail the concept of The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn essentially as a disc of songs. The effort resulted in their instrumental tremebundo nightmare, something extended in the set, but quite enjoyable with a patient attitude and determined to lost in the cosmic sense of the spacecraft that Barrett used as guitar. Much nicer is "The Gnome", which anticipates the lysergic folk singer that Barrett would be in his next two albums after the storm. "Chapter 24" serves again to close your eyes and get to levitate another psalm is intertwined with a keyboard sticky and Tibetan gong sounds. And there again to folk to "Scarecrow", humble, almost level, but imbued with a fascinating beauty makes an appearance as the acoustic guitar arpeggio. Finally, the playful "Bike", which is grace in the infantilism that oozes between toy keyboards, sound effects and how to sing like a spoiled child Barrett. The Piper At The Gates of Dawn was one of the most important albums of 1967 and culminating episode of psychedelic pop, just outside of what would later lead to progressive rock. Barrett's brain had been severely damaged, both for drug abuse and for their continued immersion in worlds apart. His inability to keep playing at concerts and to find another single that could arrive at 1-noticeable attempts are songs like "Vegetable Man" and especially "Jugband Blues", in which an orchestra out of a dream to break into the song- earned her expulsion from the group. Without the talent and pop sensibility Barrett Pink Floyd emphasized his most bombastic and empty and ended up becoming one of the architects of the rise of progressive rock.
And Syd Barrett? Hampered by their psychotic episode, he was able, however, gradually composed more visions of his world of madness. On Tuesday you can read the article on his first solo album in 1970, The Madcap Laughs .
Pink Floyd. The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (1967)
Texts recommended
" Syd Barrett." By Louis in Computer Age . Article about his musical career.
" Syd Barrett. Returns. You, delusional visions observer. "Summary of interviews and appointments. It ends with a rare interview with Barrett in 1983, which is clearly expressed their state of deterioration.
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