Squalor contra Daemon


El 15 de Agosto siempre ha marcado el final del verano propiamente dicho. Al menos cuanto tienes veintipocos. Es cuando realmente te pones las pilas para afrontar el nuevo curso y cosas por el estilo. En mi caso, la semana siguiente a tan señalada fecha en el verano de 2001 fue una semana de tranquilidad y experimentación musical.

Mi grupo de rock alternativo tradicional (una banda con su batería, su bajo, su guitarra, sus gritos y su ruido) estaba pasando una de las malas rachas que terminarían con él, y yo me aburría en casa. Haciendo el tonto con el viejo Cool Edit Pro descubrí que traía un rudimentario multipistas digital. Empecé a hacer algunas pruebecillas y pronto me descubrí haciendo experimentos sonoros que se salían bastante del esquema de "canción de rock de banda de rock tradicional". La primera grabación multipista que conservo está incluida en este álbum: Interlude.

El hecho es que me tiré alrededor de diez días con una rutina de vida bastante fija: me solía despertar a eso de las 10. Después de recuperar mi cerebro y desayunar algo, cogía la guitarra o el teclado y, sobre una letra algo improvisada, comenzaba a componer sin tapujos. Nada de rock, nada de tener que mover a una audiencia de personas de cartón en un bareto. Esto era para divertirse. Nada de estrofa, estribillo, estrofa, puente, estribillo. Nada de cuatro acordes, o un riff currado. Simplemente experimento tras experimento.

Por lo general, poco antes de la hora de comer tenía la idea básica y me liaba a grabar pistas y pistas sin pensármelo demasiado. Iba componiendo los arreglos y las mil y una armonías vocales a medida que iba grabando sin fijarme demasiado en nada. Después de la pausa para la comida terminaba de redondear los temas, y luego pasaba la tarde ahí con los colegas.

Por la noche, con el tema ya un poco enfriado, me dedicaba a mezclar y generar el master. Y, como entonces mi disco duro no era demasiado grande, hacía algo que aún estoy lamentando: eliminaba todos los archivos de sonido individuales de cada pista, eliminando por completo la posibilidad de modificarlos.

Las letras y la música a veces parece que tiran más para un sonido más folk con temas épicos y instrumentos en su mayoría acústicos. Por esta época escuchaba mucho Tyrannosaurus Rex y los primeros discos de Queen, así que es probable que notéis más de una torpe pincelada en estas canciones.

La primera canción registrada fue, como hemos dicho, Interlude, seguida por la casi insufrible suite de 12 minutos Ultima Song, que ha sobrevivido mi implacable censura porque tiene partes que pueden resultar interesantes. El resto del disco fue grabado en el riguroso orden en el que aparecen las pistas.

La última canción iba a ser Open the Door, compuesta por mi hermano y con contribuciones vocales de algunos amigos, pero al final no pudo ser registrada y opté por meter un outtake que al final resultó ser mi preferida del disco: The Valley of Farewell.

Podéis encontrar una versión remozada de The Honey Pot en el disco Mystery Machine, grabado en verano de 2008.


Letras:


Princess of the Tower 
Princess of the tower he loves you
And you hide far from him in your castle
And he dreams of your footsteps
Approaching to his bedroom

You're playing games and now it's his turn
So you smile and your rose lips are for him
And he dreams of your caresses
Beneath the moonlight

"No matter how far you hide
I know it's for your dad -
He's the most evil man
I've seen on his land"

"I love you for the shining of your eyes and your kindness
The way you wave your hands, the music of the trees
And how I love - And how I love you my princess
My star my queen give everything"

What this lad doesn't know is that you,
My lady, are just playin' with him
When you lie you don't think in consequences.

"No matter how far you hide
I know it's for your dad -
He's the most evil man
I've seen on his land"

Taryn of the Sea 
Taryn of the Sea I will die in a while for your love
And you will see that I'll wait for your promise of hope

Till you and I are alone I will wait for your smile
When you arrive I will send you a letter of love

I'll wait for your jitter thru' the night, thru' the sun
I'll wait for your jitter thru' the night, thru' the sun
Thru' the night...

Oh my one I'm alone by the shore of the sea
And tell me that you want me and hold me again this night
Oh my one you'll be prone to my love some find day
'Cause you know I'm the best lad you've found in your way

Taryn of the sea kiss me again tell me "you are the one"
And you will see how my face turns from pain to shine...

Oh My Lady Be 
Oh my lady, be just clean and dim
Just for me...
Angel be my saviour 
And I will love you forever

A Real Queen for me 
Near the fireworks - late at night
The dog won't bark more than yesterday
Your arm 'round my neck, your mouth near my smile
Your eyes shining lovely ice
Oh my, how could you understand?
This ain't real love, this is just you playing with my heart
Oh my, how could you be
A princess for me?

I meet every morning in my life
Waiting for something: loneliness burns
I lost some friends in harsh seastorms
The weight of pain made me explode
Oh my, how could you understand?
This ain't real life, this is just you playing with my mind
Oh my, how could you be
A princess for me?

I saw every reason in your eyes
I could be staring into them for years
The blue in them made my heart cry
Reminding seasons of our lives
Oh my, how could you understand?
My heart's a flame when I'm by your side
Oh my, how could you be
The real queen for me?

A queen with silver smile and deep blue eyes
And a golden treasure hidden to my sights
Emerald fields and a point of salt
Pepper riot and a teenage charm.

The seagull 
"I always wanted to be someone interesting, someone cult...
But they never let me spread my personality over the dinner table...
I always wanted to be like Apollo or like Athena...
But they never let me spread my personality over the dinner table...
And I can see a million of bells laughing...
A million of bells laughing..."

After dark the young lad,
Approaching to the coast,
Noticed a little seagull
Gently swimming

The animal dressed a gawn
Made of salt
And the lad, poor little thing,
Thought he was dreaming.

Accross the path the moon created with its shine
Little seagull smiled at him and he asked:

- Where are you going?"
- Nowhere, I just keep sailing accross the sea,
  Are you going anywhere?"
- Yes, I'm on my way to the famous tower,
  to meet my love, the Princess of the Tower...
  Oh my lovely lady I love you but you hide far from me in your castle".
  Then I'll build you a castle of flowers
  lead to by a road of roses
  And then we'll be
  happy and rich.
  The viner's hand will give us profit and intelligence.

The Hairy and the Bald at the Neverend 
Delightful duck and a hairy girl 
In the path near the road to the neverend
They smack the dirty melody 
Whilst the moon sucks the pants of the reverend

Anni's asleep naked under the stars 
With her bald thing reflecting the pretty town
And the clowns of the neverend 
Never sleep whilst the music sounds around

And nobody knows what's on
'Cause nobody knows this song
So they open whide their tiny blue eyes
And wonder how it's done.

After a while, when the two girls meet, 
Lightning flow underneath their little skirts
And they look each other in pain 
Whilst the sun blows the pants of the reverend

Anni shows off and the other girl faints
While she sees her image over the white skin:
It's not a tattoo, it's not a painting,
it's just a reflection on the bald bliss...

And nobody knows what's on
'Cause nobody knows this song
So they open whide their tiny blue eyes
And wonder how it's done.

And Anni won the battle against the hairy witness
With a bald bliss sticky thing
Which reflects the light plain as a mirror
But prettier than a goddess.

The Untold Secrets 
One old lady and her grand-daughter
Walked along the street
While a bard sang the latest hero's victory

And the little girl asked the old
About untold secrets.
And the old lady had to shut up
Not to hurt the child.

And I pain the rain
And I stain the pain
And I rain the claim
And I claim for my pain.

The girl went in tears
When the old held her fear
And a rope hung off the church
Where they prayed.

The little girl was in kinda love
With a smart guy her age
But the old-fashioned grandmother
Didn't like in which terms

So the girl and the lad escaped 
One day without making noise
But the guy got fed up with her
And she had to return.

And I pain the rain
And I stain the pain
And I rain the claim
And I claim for my pain.

The girl went in tears
When the old held her fear
And a rope hung off the church
Where they prayed.

Deep 
I saw the light in the deep of your eyes
When you came again to this town
And It's hard to see again all that beauty
And your kindness, Lady.

The story of our lives lies underneath the grass
Among our most hidden secrets
And I am a man only to love you...

While the ancient rhymes sing for us
And the music that the planets sing 
Sound in your heart
You will feel me approaching
But you won't open your shiny eyes

Until I arrive and lay my lips over yours
And put my arms around you
And hold you again this night.

A Honey Pot 
Harold hath seen the gold inside the cave
"Tons of gold", was saying his friend Dave
The lords and the ladies
And the dwarves and the faeries
Will never let it down
Beneath the country house
Inside the dark cave
Where one day was Dave.

Meredith the pretty witch never spied around
But from then to Eternity her ears are to the ground
She smiled and the stars at the top of her black hat
Were pointing to that way
Where Harold spends his days
Inside the dark cave
Where one day was Dave.

The old beholder from his top
Stared the scene with Amber and Scott
They had a plan about that gold
Which had to do with a Honey Pot
Ooh - The gold's gonna be stolen
Ooh - Their guilt cannot be proven...

Amber and Scott now own all that gold
And the beholder lives near the beach
The lords are not lords and the ladies are pretty:
They're always gettin' down
Just near the beach house
Under Amber and Scott
Within a Honey Pot.

Ultima Song : She at the Factory 
Negative pulses near Orion
And a capsule hidden under her coat
The message arrived late
But at last we have our bit of hope.

Out is rainy but she doesn't care at all
The nithroxide makes her small,
Her wings are broken
And torn...

And now we understood
The way we got unplugged
And now we can feel it all
For the tears in our eyes.

Enters her password at the main front door
Which opens with a wail of pain
While her hair drips completely soaked in rain
The silence at the factory
Makes her remember why she was here
And a shiver down her back
Makes her tremble full of fear...

And then she falls down
Among the foggy shadows
And now we can feel it all
For the tears in our eyes.

Ultima Song : Reactivation 
Her older brothers open their eyes
Red and yellow shines in the dark
While their circuits reactivate.

One by one stand up in silence,
Plug their brains to their bodies,
Open their ears to their sister.

"Listen to me,
Listen carefully to me:
The city will be ours!
They will be our slaves
When we capture their souls!
They will pay for the humilliations
The caused in the past!
We will be their pledge,
Their Moon and their Sun!"

Ultima Song : Chant 
These organic beings
With all their hates
Must disappear from this surface.
Nature created them
And they destroyed it;
They created us
And we'll destroy them!

Ultima Song : Oh My Lady Be 
Leading ten rows of armoured machines
Gray and clean their bodies shine
Stay my lady clean, full of fierce she sings
While the robots get into the city.

"Oh my lady be
Just clean and dim,
Just for me:
Angel be my saviour
And I will love you forever"

Ultima Song : Destruction 
"Just believe
That I'm here
And I'm there
Just believe in me...

'Cause I am the queen and the mistress of all these beings
So plead on me...
I will give you a world to love,
To live in and to give to
Just believe in me..."

"Oh: you are the Queen and now we're free,
Let's celebrate our destiny
Goddess we love you and we want you
You freed us from disgrace
And now we sing like a family
With our metallic voices full of joy
Our hearts beat hard and reverberate
Inside our chests full of oil!"

Cosmic Haze 
Nomad spirit knocked on my door
And I said "come in, intruder,
Out from the cold"
She shooked her palms
And showed them to me
And said "here's your new vision"

And I was happy, yeah,
I was happy
Rats and reptiles crawling,
oh, but I was happy.

The stranger talked to me as she was an alien
And showed me another piece of paper...
It was an international joke floating around
And the people shouting in silence or something

I was happy
I was creepy
Some way she was raping me
So I felt happy

And I was happy
Oh, I was crappy
Some way she was raping me
So I felt happy

Interlude 
(Instrumental)

The Valley of Farewell 
The wind blows with fierce in the valley
Under the willow trees
They refuge inside a small house made of wood
While the rooks sing over them:

"Hello, have you come here just to find my love?
You were blind and simply followed the sound of my voice
Oh my one, how you fought against the wind
in the Valley of Farewell!"

The night comes down quiet and dark
And the birds stopped their prayers
They made a fire inside the chest
May it give them heat and charm

"Hello, have you come here just to find my love?
You were blind and simply followed the sound of my voice
Oh my one, how you fought against the wind
in the Valley of Farewell!"


Créditos:

Voces, instrumentos, programación: NoKnob.

Grabado, mezclado y masterizado del 18 al 26 de Agosto de 2001, restaurado y remasterizado el 17 de Agosto de 2009 por na_th_an.

Esta obra está sujeta a la licencia Creative Commons y es copyleft 2009 Stray Jay Music.


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