See spanish version of this post here. Translation by Arturo Breña.
SOME INNER FEELINGS ABOUT THE DARKSIDE, A BAND INFORMED BY PETE "BASSMAN" BAIN AND STERLING "ROSCO" ROSWELL, BOTH MEMBERS OF NEO-PSYCHEDELIK BRITISH GODS, SPACEMEN 3. AFTER ALPHA STONE -PETE BASSMAN EFFORT WITH SOME OTHER COLLEAGUES- ROSCO AND BASSMAN ARE PLAYING TOGETHER NOWADAYS. MARVELLOUS SPACE AGE DAYS ARE COMING!!!!
At the beginning
of the nineties there was a band which shook up many baggy, neo-psychedelia and scally (so in fashion those days) followers
minds; with bands such as Inspiral Carpets, The Charlatans or surely Stone Roses: that band was called TheDarkside and is the beginning of this story.
The Darkside
was the project, Spacemen 3 bassist, Pete "Bassman" Bain had build up -after leaving
the space ship just next to “Perfect Prescription” (1987) release- with Sterling "Rosco" Roswell on amazing wha wha psychedelic viola. Fed up of quarrels and ego fights which started to
undermine the original band´s harmony, Bain didn’t doubt to leave and put
together a new band with teenage friends,
which in the end left master pieces of nineties neo-psychedelia:
All that noise (1990), Psychedelecise suburbia (1991 ) and Melomania (1992).
Finishing the
year 1996, when thanks to the internet
ubiquity, a North America friend, Chris Barrus, known for founding the Spacemen 3 - Drone on mailing list and for
writing some of the nineties reeditions texts of the Rugby astronauts records, had the pleasure of selling me Alphastone first album, Pete Bassman new project after The Darkside dissolution.
When the
album arrived to Peru and to my hands, my intimate group of melomaniac friends
melt down as the fine drug addicts that
we were, thanks to marijuana`s magic, sanpedro, hashish, mix and a long
etcetera, to get out of this three dimensional humanoid small world and visit the beautiful
paradises who kindly Alpha Stone music
gave us: one of the songs “Soulless Zone” of the second disc,
exclaim:
“I wanna go back, go back home, this is a cold
soulless zone that nobody called their own”.
That
philosophy was present not only in Alpha Stone or The Darkside, but in all Spacemen 3`s , Spectrum`s or the first Spiritualized music. An attitude
and a way of life that have sculpted
me since teenage when I rehearsed with Hipnoascencion their first baggy songs, pitifully
today lost forever.
It was an
age of magic, spirituality and true beauty lost between infusions of chemistry,
prashá Krishna, heavens and flat roofs in the residential zone of San Felipe - Comas
or in Tawantinsuyo, inside Independencia district, circa 1993/1994. And then came my Faculty (University) entry where subjects
such as “Theory of Knowledge” or “Aesthetics and Perception” showed me thoughts
and feelings similar to the ones I’ve made mine and experienced listening to
Alpha Stone and Darkside. Plato and “The world of the ideas” impressed me
positively too. Such a beautiful trip was that.
Just close
your eyes / you will realize / love is everywhere / but do you really
care/ I’ve
got so much to say / I feel it every day / Like a burning universe / like a
burning universe.
The
Darkside
“Love in a burning universe”
“Love in a burning universe”
Rain fell every
day on me. When I got
awake, to inhale ganja`s smell
in and out of my chest, take the bus and go to the classes and so on through
the day, to visit green ground 4 times a
day until, without realizing, it was
dark and I had to return home. For every
of those days, that was life: completely stoned, singing “Fixin to die, Lord I`m
fixin to die”. An epoch that would become a new era in music of just AWESOME
records of artists that really made you feel someone privileged cause the
music they showed was the more suprarreal/hyperreal/paradisiacal you could
imagine.
“Put me on trance and send me off to space find
my inner feelings and tell me how they taste. I chase dreams through burning
buildings, are you in the other side?
I`ve got a slow motion mind, got a slow motion
head. It’s all in ours heads.
Send me to the depths; let me sink leaving no
trace.
Never had what I wanted, never know what to say. And they speak all as monkeys who float around the space. I `ve got a slow motion mind, got a slow motion head. It’s all in ours heads.”
Never had what I wanted, never know what to say. And they speak all as monkeys who float around the space. I `ve got a slow motion mind, got a slow motion head. It’s all in ours heads.”
Alpha
Stone
“Slow motion mind”
“Slow motion mind”
To realize
that there was one of us which saw it clearly 120 years ago, confirms the
purity of that precept or that the
length of human`s time and space is
something we should reform, “all treat that don’t rise, let down” (FRIEDRICH
NIETZSCHE, 1844-1900).
“Light,
light which dies within myself,
absence of original fountain
I sink in mud,
in swamps of illusion
a mirror and I see
myself – helplessness.
light which dies within myself,
absence of original fountain
I sink in mud,
in swamps of illusion
a mirror and I see
myself – helplessness.
Sea
swimming I start to be the forest,
light strikes my body
and recently I feel
you drizzle in my soul
I start to be born
in hipnoascencion.”
swimming I start to be the forest,
light strikes my body
and recently I feel
you drizzle in my soul
I start to be born
in hipnoascencion.”
Hipnoascensión
“Hipnoascensión”
“Hipnoascensión”
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