A Saucerful Of Secrets - Pink Floyd Instrumental cover - 2020

Saucerful Of Secrets - Pink floyd - Instrumental cover by alifie - 2020
Cover inspired from Live at Pompeii - 1972
'Celestial Voices' part vs Guitars part
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Recorded and mixed at Module Lunaire Studio by alifie 2020
Mastered by 'Sly' at Loud And Clear Studio 2020
Guitars : Sébastien Siozade
Keyboards: Juan Luis Simon
Piano: Maripier Quaranta
Bass : Gauthier Trumel
Drums : Laurent Fompudie
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From Prog Censor Revue:
Etre De L' Opium
space rock - 49:20 - France ‘20
First album for Alifie, a young French trio . The band is Marie-Pierre Quaranta (vocals / keyboards), Sébastien Siozade (guitars / bass) and Denis Guillemin (drums) [* See foot note].
Under a very pretty cover, Alifie develops a progressive oriented space rock with strong psychedelic hints. Only four songs, but none of them go under ten minutes and allow the space drifts to be lengthened as they should, the dream must not end.
For a first draft, it's a real success that inevitably brings to mind the past exploits of Hawkwind (how to avoid it when we talk about space rock?) But also of Pink Floyd in its great growling and roaring moments, not to mention the hallucinatory extravagances of an Ozric Tentacles.
"Schizofriendly" belongs to the sacred caste of pure and hard space rock where the "muffled" song of Marie-Pierre participates in a beautiful way in this journey of 12:21 between cosmic dust and comet tails to catch up with "Oumuamua" before let him leave the solar system!
"Etre de l'Opium", the eponymous title, is a free adaptation of a text by Jean Cocteau ("Light Prairie"), at a slower pace and which immediately invites you to another interstellar journey; languidly, one scrutinizes the infinite space through the porthole while mentally wandering over these beautiful words: “I was cork oark on the water, cloud in the air, foam, I climbed, stretched out on a winged carpet.”… This poetry accentuates the effects of the journey where Sébastien's cosmic guitar delivers full and loose with a remarkable and noticed mastery. Another 12:37 of pure happiness!
“Moonchild” is a variation on this King Crimson track from “In the Court…”. Alifie thrives on the difference in treatment between the original and their rereading of the title; Marie-Pierre's voice becomes softer to the rhythm of the aquatic interlacing of the guitar which makes us like circles in the water, widening its soft arpeggios while the keyboard irrigates this revival of an ancestral magic, think so… 1969 ! 10:44 of a bittersweet psychedelia that can bring to mind the most folk atmospheres of Led Zeppelin, surprising isn't it? Especially since the finale soars in an ectoplasm of "Stairway to Heaven", like a reminder to the volutes of the past.
To end it all and land on some distant planet, Alifie devotes his art to another cover, that of “A Saucerful of Secrets” which you know. No need to write the article to you, the trio are at ease in a universe they master with a grace and a magic listed and, at times, accentuated. The masterful madness and cerebral encirclement of this quasi-experimental rambling (for 1968) is reproduced with insane talent on 13:38.
Without doubt, I recommend this album to all those who like to go far in their head without leaving home, with headphones, the effect is striking and the pleasure intense and enjoyable. A sidereal cruise of which I thought only the Anglo-Saxons capable. Hats off !
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Amazing! They turned a masterpiece into something even better!