An Ultimate Interstellar Overdrive – a track-by-track review of “The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn” By Andrei Kiisler, aka: moom
Piper cover as shot by Vic Singh If you are looking for THE BEST soundtrack to your acid trips, you won’t find any better than Pink Floyd’s debut album, “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn”. Recorded and released at the same time as The Beatles’ “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” with ideas borrowed from one another, it sounds much trippier- while The Beatles’ album – much hippier. 1. Astronomy Domine- Speech effects that were on the forefront of music technology, combined with spacey lyrics and melody into a whole new music science… Where astronomy dominates the mind. 2. Lucifer Sam- Although the song is about a cat, it sounds like one of James Bond’s movie themes. Every instrument represents something about a cat: Wright’s organ meows, the bass is a sneaking sound, “and whip-like sounds and special effects further the feline theme”. The cat’s real name was “Percy...