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This is one of those pieces where I have the hunch if I really listened to it 3-5 times, I'd discover there's more to it than you get on first impression. But then there's taking an hour or more to really digest it that way, which isn't a trivial investment.
And I say that as someone who's grown to really love the 16+ minute 'original' version of "Interstellar Overdrive* (from Tonight Let's All Make Love In London), and even Nick's Boogie (from the same sessions).
And I'm well aware of a LOT of free jazz stuff (used to own 50+ Sun Ra albums, for instance, and a ton of Ornette Coleman), so I'm well equipped to appreciate this sort of thing, at least on some level.
Glad it got released (albeit on-line/download only), but can easily see why it didn't ever see any CD issue.
Syd's venture into free form jazz. It's hard to say how much of this was Syd and how much of it was the gang of session musicians. I have a feeling if the backing band was, instead of the hired hands, Waters, Wright, and Mason it couldve been a very avant-garde inspired jazz fusion. It is, regardless, a far cry from what people said about this track before its inclusion on Introduction. It's quite good, but I am quite interested in Syd.
Apparently Syd played everything except the percussion. It’s all overdubs of him soloing.
It is not half as bad as everyone (who never listened to it) pretended it to be, but this demo was only a starting point for a more coherent piece, I think.
It could've grown into an early 'Floydian' suite on a Barrett album.