What time is it? You wake up on a cotton amaca in a pine wood. Golden rays of sun are filtering the dusty, boiling air. Still half-asleep you reach for the sea. There are pirates playing poker games sitting in circle around an old Moog. Are you drunk or their faces look so alike Syd (Barret), Roger (McGuinn), Brian (Wilson) and Arthur (Lee)? And the beardy guy in the corner playing sitar, isn’t he George (Harrison)? You’re still wondering when everyone stands up and runs to the shore waving at a group of sirens half-dressed in tricot’s bikinis. There are romantic dances and scene of hopeless and tender loving. At sunset, all together you head to the bar at the end of the pier – or maybe at the end of the world? It’s actually a saloon, where a skeletons’ band is playing vaudeville music and bits of Morricone‘s soundtracks. The whole gang is drinking absinthe like it was tea time at the Mad Hatter’s table and the sirens have turned into gypsies.
What time is it?
Serpent Power is the collaboration between The Coral’s Ian Skelly and The Zutons Paul Molloy, this is their debut album, recorded at Castle Grayskull studios in Merseyside and just released on Skeleton Key Records, and you’d better not miss it.
The pirates are watching you!
Ask The Sky 