"Sleep Inside this House'

Sleep Inside this House é unha das obras mestras máis importates dos rock psychodélico, dende logo, é unha das miñas cancións favoritas de calquer estilo.

A fin de semana estivemos recordando varias versións de outras bandas.

O tema orixinal é, por suposto dos The 13th Floor Elevators. Foi composta por Roky Erickson e Tommy Hall, e abría o segundo álbum da banda, o "Easter Everywhere" de 1967. Unha auténtica xoia, de oito minutos, que amosa á perfección o concepto psychodélico da banda por excelencia do xénero. Neste segundo álbum abandoaban a inmediatez garaxeira do seu debut ("The Psychedelic Sounds of..." de 1966) pero mantendo esas guitarras tan características e únicas na historia do rock, e daban renda solta ás filosofías místicas de Alfred Korzybski e George Gurdjieff, que sempre influenciaron as súas letras, pero seguramente, desta vez Tommy Hall estivo máis inspirado ca nunca (tedes a letra completa ao final da entrada).

 Durante varias décadas o álbum foi unha auténtica xoia de coleccionista ata que nos anos 90s ao fin comezou a reeditarse, e puidemos desfrutalo de novo, aínda que xa sabedes dos problemas coas reedicións mono/stereo que se fixeron da súa discografia... Ahí tedes o audio do álbum orixinal:

Nos últimos anos son varias as versións dos Sleep Inside this House feitas por bandas con certo recoñecemento (Oneida) pero a que tivo máis mérito sempre foi a dos Primal Scream, aínda que aos puristas de xénero non lles guste nada.

Cando Bobby Gillespie abandonou The Jesus and Mary Chain para adicarse a tempo completo aos Primal Scream estaba convencido da facer álbumes de rock psychodélico. Os seus primeiros álbumes tentan unha revisión daqueles sons, pero foron bastante (digamos) pouco afortunados.

Pero en 1991 lanzan "Screamadelica" un deses álbumes que cambian o rumbo da música para sempre. Era música de baile, rock alternativo pensado como acid house. A cousa funcionou á perfección, pero toda aquela modernidade non se enterou de que pista número dous do álbum era, precisamente, a versión do mítico 'Sleep Inside this House' dos 13th House Elevators, e un par de anos antes de que todo o material da banda orixinal fora reeditado. A todos aqueles alucinados polo novo brit pop tampouco lles interesaba nada disto. Pero aquela peza extraña ao principio do álbum sonaba así de raro, e asi de ben. Cambia totalmente de rexistro, e aínda asi mantén moito máis da orixinal do que parece, e as mellores guitarras que fixeron xamáis, aínda que deixan toda a letra atrás... Co paso dos anos, cada vez gústame máis.

Aquí tedes aos Primal Scream en directo, aínda con Mani ao baixo:

Ahí tedes as letra completa do tema:

The 13th Floor Elevators: Sleep Inside this House.

(Roky Erickson & Tommy Hall, 1967)

Bedoin tribes ascending

From the egg into the flower,

Alpha information sending

State within the heaven shower

From disciples the unending

Subtleties of river power

They slip inside this house as they pass by

If your limbs begin dissolving

In the water that you tread

All surroundings are evolving

In the stream that clears your head

Find yourself a caravan

Like Noah must have led

And slip inside this house as you pass by.

Slip inside this house as you pass by.

True conception, knowing why

Brings even more than meets the eye

Slip inside this house as you pass by.

In this dark we call creation

We can be and feel and know

From an effort, comfort station

That's surviving on the go

There's infinite survival in

The high baptismal glow.

Slip inside this house as you pass by.

There is no season when you are grown

You are always risen from the seeds you've sown

There is no reason to rise alone

Other stories given have sages of their own.

Live where your heart can be given

And your life starts to unfold

In the forms you envision

In this dream that's ages old

On the river layer is the only sayer

You receive all you can hold

Like you've been told.

Every day's another dawning

Give the morning winds a chance

Always catch your thunder yawning

Lift your mind into the dance

Sweep the shadows from your awning

Shrink the fourfold circumstance

That lies outside this house don't pass it by.

Higher worlds that you uncover

Light the path you want to roam

You compare there and discover

You won't need a shell of foam

Twice born gypsies care and keep

The nowhere of their former home

They slip inside this house as they pass by.

Slip inside this house as you pass by.

You think you can't, you wish you could

I know you can, I wish you would

Slip inside this house as you pass by.

Four and twenty birds of Maya

Baked into an atom you

Polarized into existence

Magnet heart from red to blue

To such extent the realm of dark

Within the picture it seems true

But slip inside this house and then decide.

All your lightning waits inside you

Travel it along your spine

Seven stars receive your visit

Seven seals remain divine

Seven churches filled with spirit,

Treasure from the angels' mine

Slip inside this house as you pass by.

Slip inside this house as you pass by.

The space you make has your own laws

No longer human gods are cause

The center of this house will never die.

There is no season when you are grown

You are always risen from the seeds you've sown

There is no reason to rise alone

Other stories given have sages of their own.

Draw from the well of unchanging

Its union nourishes on

In the right re-arranging

Till the last confusion is gone

Water-brothers trust in the ultimust

Of the always singing song they pass along.

One-eyed men aren't really reigning

They just march in place until

Two-eyed men with mystery training

Finally feel the power fill

Three-eyed men are not complaining.

They can yo-yo where they will

They slip inside this house as they pass by.

Don't pass it by.