The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
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5th August 1967 |
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LP, CD |
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41 m 52s |
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The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is the debut album by the British band Pink Floyd . The LP was released on August 5, 1967 and reached number 6 on the UK charts .
General
The recordings for the album took place from February to June 1967 in London's Abbey Road Studios . It is the only album that was created entirely under the musical direction of former band member and actual founder of Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett . Guitarist David Gilmour only joined the band in 1968.
The lyrics on the album range from childlike, naive tales of scarecrows, dwarfs or a bicycle to futuristic visions of space. This is accompanied by often spherical music, which became the basis for the psychedelic image of the early Pink Floyd.
The songs were partly created in collaboration with the architect and artist Mike Leonard. He asked Pink Floyd to add improvised music live to his art exhibitions , in which he experimented with light objects and light projections . Correspondingly, when Pink Floyd performed later, the songs were often lengthened to create space for extended improvisations.
The title of the album refers to the English children's book classic The Wind in the Willows , published in 1908 by Kenneth Grahame , the seventh chapter of which is entitled “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” (“The Piper at the Gates of Dawn”). In it, the water rat and the mole are looking for a stray animal and have a religious experience:
“This is the place of my song-dream, the place the music played to me, whispered the rat, as if in a trance. Here, in this holy place, here if anywhere, surely we shall find Him! "
“This is where I had my song dream, this is the place where I heard the music, the rat whispered as if in a trance . Here, in this holy place, if anywhere, here we will surely find HIM! "
In 2003 the album was voted 347th in Rolling Stone magazine's choice of the 500 best albums of all time .
title
- Astronomy Domine (Barrett) - 4:12 min
- Lucifer Sam (Barrett) - 3:07 min
- Matilda Mother (Barrett) - 3:08 min
- Flaming (Barrett) - 2:46 min
- Pow R. Toc H. (Barrett / Waters / Wright / Mason) - 4:26 min
- Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk (Waters) - 3:05 min
- Interstellar Overdrive (Barrett / Waters / Wright / Mason) - 9:41 min
- The Gnome (Barrett) - 2:13 min
- Chapter 24 (Barrett) - 3:42 min
- The Scarecrow (Barrett) - 2:11 min
- Bike (Barrett) - 3:21 min
- Total playing time: 41:52 min
The song See Emily Play is also included on some versions of the LP .
In 2007 a 40th Anniversary Edition was released . In the standard edition, CD 1 contains the mono and CD 2 the stereo version of the album. In the limited edition is a third CD with all single tracks not included on the original LP from 1967 (the A and B sides of the singles Arnold Layne , See Emily Play and Apples and Oranges ) and three others, to then contain unreleased versions of popular songs.
literature
- John Cavanagh: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Continuum, New York 2003, ISBN 0-8264-1497-4 .
- Julian Palacios: Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd: Dark Globe , London, Plexus, 2010 - 443 pages. ISBN 978-0-85965-431-9 .
Web links
- www.pinkfloyd.co.uk - Official Pink Floyd band website
- Reviews of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn on the Babyblauen Seiten
Individual evidence
- ↑ 40th Anniversary Edition at hitparade.ch