COBRA
wedding in the desert

dabke / middle east / jazz / psychedelic rock / vaporwave / experimental

The psychedelic misadventures of a weary stranger, invited to a Syrian wedding, just as a civil war was about to begin. Our character was bitten by a COBRA on the very first day he set foot in the Arabic land, which caused him high fever and hallucinations. Now he's stuck at a foreign wedding where he only knows one person, and things are about to get from bad to worse.

This strange and loud music almost feels antagonistic to his tired ears, the darabanas piercing his eardrums, and he couldn't tell anymore if this large gathering of oddly dressed people are dancing or fighting, happy or mad. The noise however becomes more and more aggressive, and the people increasingly agitated. Is he hearing.. gunfire? He never heard of such a wedding custom before.

A loud bang knocks some sense into him. No, he is not at a wedding anymore. People are scattering around him, others have guns. Everyone is shouting and he can't understand a thing. His instincts finally wake up and despite being tired, dehydrated and still envenomed, he thinks of only one thing: run!

..But where? The desert feels the safest place.