Spacemen 3のラストアルバム『Recurring』の
国内盤の解説文を訳してみました。
Taking drugs to meke music to take drugs to…
The music of Spacemen 3 would be unmistakably drug-inspired music.
I have never known such beautiful psychedelic and acid music.
This music is a rainbow-colored dream created by the fusion of superior musical sensibility and LSD.
Entitled Recurriing, it is the fifth and possibly last album.
Because the company is effectively disbanded and the members are working on separate projects.
In an interview with NME, Sonic Boom
"Jason is a no-good guy and he does nothing but imitate me,"
and Jason also said
"I don't want to talk about him, Spacemen 3 is not who I really am."
They will never get back together.
The analog version is split into two parts, a sonic side and a jason side.
Quietly, beautifully, unobtrusively.
They finally arrived at a world of dazzling light.
Spacemen 3 was formed in 1982.
sonic and jason met in rugby in central England
I was about 13 when I wrote my first song," Sonic says,
a song with one chord that goes on and on and on.
We had similar taste in music," Jason says,
He listened to the Cramps, I listened to the Stooges, that kind of thing.
But Sonic says, "When he first met me, he was in a scruffy gothic band,
a southern death cult with over 50 chord changes a minute, or
Like Sex Gang Chirdern
The band's name was Indian Scalp."
I don't know if this statement is true.
Anyway, the band's first album Sound of Confusion
The album is a storm of repetitive spiraling beats and
feedback noise, intense acid rock!
In fact," Jason says, "I was surprised the first record didn't sell that well.
Followed by 12EP "Walking with jesus"
I wanted something to break through with the next one.
Something that would musically support the drugs..." and
Sonic says
Spaccemen 3's sound changes with the release of Transparent Radiation in 1987.
As for the two B-side tracks,
they're conventional feedback noise-centric heavy acid rock.
but, the cover of RED KRAYOLA with strings and Ecstacy Sympohny with Farfisa organ are cosmic trip sounds,
and the beauty of Ecstacy Sympohny in particular is beyond description.
The band began to move away from the intense psychedelic sound to a quieter one, and
in 1987 they released their second album, The Perfect Prescripton.
Compared to the 1st album, the compositional
and performance skills of the songs have evolved considerably.
It's as beautiful as Velvetunderground's 1st one.
Gentle madness, that's the perfect word for it.
In '88, he captured a performance in Amsterdam. Perfomance,
a live album was released.
Four of the seven songs are covers
(13th floor elevators, MC5, and glen campbell), and
the rampage hard-hitting sound of early Spacemen 3 is concentrated here.
Is this their homage to 60's psychedelia,
or an epitaph to break away from the psychedelic influences of the past?
The single Revolution was released in 1989.
the fastest and most intense song in Spacemen3's works.
I can't help but feel the band's influence
VelvetUnderground, NEU! and Sucide.
New York psychedelic and German acid bands
(in fact, Sucide's che is covered on the single).
The band left Glass Records and moved to Fire Records,
while at the same time dramatically shifting their sound.
Their third album Playing with Fire, released in 1989,
has five colorful keywords on the cover:
[revolution], [purity], [love], [suicide], [accuracy].
Sonic says
"You don't have to be a great musician to make great music,
You just have to make it the way you feel it
I'm a musician because there's nothing else I can do well,
I make what I feel, but I know how to settle into my art.
The simpler things are, the more direct and effective they are.
We have tried to capture all aspects of love in our songs.
We are not obsessed with death or suicide.
But it's hard to find a band that deals with and writes about this kind of theme.
The hard acidic feeling of the past is in the two songs Revolution and Sucide.
But overall, the sound world is like a phantom that appears and disappears fleetingly,
centered around acoustic guitars, organs, and whispering voices.
Also, until now, all of their original songs have been credited
as co-written by Sonic and Jason,
but only Sucide has co-written five songs under the name
Kember and three under the name Pierce.
Was there already a rift between the two of them at this time,
or was it due to relationship troubles,
since there is no clear difference in their musical orientation?
Spacemen 3 continues as it begins to move from darkness to light,
Release the single Hypnotized.
It was praised by the press as an extremely awe-inspiring sweet opium lullaby, etc.,
and established the band's reputation as one of the most mysterious
and influential cult bands in the UK.
But in the summer of 1989, jason and sonic were moving on to separate projects.
First, sonic booms are making his solo debut
with the single Angle on Silver Tone Records.
In February 1990, the album Spectrum will be released
Only the best of Spacemen3 has been extracted from this album.
Jason is going to be angry.
My beloved velvets, neu and sucide direct awakening was apparently
due to Sonic boom's sense of style!
Ask God for Relief Help Me Please 、Lonely Avenue, a song about unbearable loneliness、
Song of Pity for a Friend Who Died of Heroin Angle
Rock'n Roll Is Killing My Life like Sucide、
Too pure love song Youre The One and Pretty Baby
The last song is so beautiful that it brings tears to my eyes If I Should Die
Floating between dreams and reality, hope and despair.
and hope and despair, and the crystallization of his ambivalent aesthetics.
It is a wonderful album that should be called
the crystallization of his ambivalent aesthetics.
Incidentally, jason's name is credited as a guest on the film,
along with Jazz Butcher, Phil Parfitt, Willie, etc. What does that mean?
Meanwhile, jason is going on a Spacemen3 tour without Sonic?
After that, he formed Spiritualized.
Spiritualized is essentially Spacemen3 without Sonic.
In February 1990, the debut single
Anyway That You Want Me/Steo Into The Breeze was released
on Dedicated Records.
Jason says.Sonic Boom has always been the spokesman for Spacemen 3,
but I don't explain this or that in my songs,
you'll know it when you hear it,
Could it be that the reason for Spacemen 3's breakup was due to egotistical
Sonic's behavior and Jason's jealousy of him?
I can't be the only one who sees the relationship
between John Lennon and Paul McCartney in the late Beatles.
When the single Big City was suddenly released
as a new Spacemen 3 Single in February 1991,
I was indeed surprised. But there it was,
Spacemen 3 had reached a new dimension that far exceeded my expectations!
I'm enjoying myself right now. This is a hypnotic dance track.
I wanted to concentrate on the trembling feeling in my chest.
The people, the light, the happiness that
everyone normally emanates from each other....
Spacemen3 has always been about the strategic aspects of life,
and it is in the 90's that we can really change the world as it should be.
Sonic says
And this 5th album "Recurning" is
NME magazine as soon as it was released in the UK in March.
indie chart, and to #3 on the Melody Maker magazine's indie chart.
I can say with certainty that this is Spacemen3's best work yet.
1 to 5 of the songs in the collection are Sonic Boom songs.
7-12 are Jason songs, and 6 are Mudhoney covers. First is Big City,
sung to a minial beat, Everybody I konw Can Be Found Here
This optimism will bring a sense of supreme bliss to all who hear it.
Sonic was influenced by Blondie's "Heart Of Glass,"
Kraftwerk's "Trans-Europe-Express,"
and Donna Summer's "I feel love" in the creation of this song.
Why Couldn't I See is, according to Sonic,
"an ambivalent song about friendship, not about sexuality.
It sounds somewhat like a song from New Order's "Brotherfood"
(not sure if Sonic is a fan of theirs or not).
The song progresses from the upbeat psychedelic number
I love you to the drifting beauty of
Just to see you smile to Set Me Free / I got the key,
and then to a scathing cover of the aforementioned
Mudhoney song in When Tomorrow Hits.
The song "Feel So Sad" is followed by a fantastic
"Feel So Sad" with Jason's voice and echoing treatment,
"Hypnotized" with acoustic guitar, organ and saxophone, the slow
Sometimes with strings, and the beautiful "Feel Just Fine"
with a Boddley-esque beat, singing about how your head is falling apart
but your heart is full of soul.
The melancholic "Billy Whizz/Blue 1" follows, and the transparent
"Feel So Sad" flashes back to the end,
melting into the atomosphere and disappearing
like the end of the song.
And so the great illusion ends.
Sonic Boom, who once nearly died of heroin addiction, remains a total junkie!
The London correspondent of Remix magazine visited him
backstage at his show at London's
Sub Latinia in mid-March,
and began the interview he had been stood up from the day before.
For the first two or three minutes,
he seemed to manage to respond to the questions,
but then he suddenly started sweating abnormally and became delirious!
In recent photos of him, his pupils are almost always dilated,
as if he were Brian Jones in his later years. I am worried.
However, he seems to be very active in music itself,
recently working with young psychedelic bands
such as Beautiful Happiness, European Sons, and Silver Chapter.
Jason Pierce has also been focusing on his work with Spiritualized
and is currently on a fairly extensive UK tour as of May.
The second single [Feel So Sad] will be released soon,
and work on an album is also steadily underway.
Then, Bassman and Roscoe, two former members of Spacemen3,
left Spacemen3 and joined a band called The Darkside,
which released its first album [All That Noise] earlier this year.
This is another great psychedelic band, reminiscent of Spacemen 3,
Loop, or even the old Doors.
It is unfortunately true that Spacemen 3 is currently in a dissolved state.
However, this does not mean that a formal period
has been put on the history of its activities.
If Sonic and Jason ever get back together again
as they did when they first met....
or even if they don't,
Spacemen 3 will continue to regress in circles in my and
your memories. With a dazzling light, and forever...
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