Theremin!

I was going to post a different thing early this week but it just sort of fell through. Instead, let us celebrate the very apex in human musical history with this 1980's-inspired original composition for synthesizer and Theremin. The sunglasses really bring this whole video together, I think, and he gets extra credit for the perfectly themed video effects.

Moon8 - Dark Side of the Moon

So, you're a Pink Floyd fan? You have a soft spot in your heart for obsolete computers and video games? You appreciate slightly out-of-tune, dinky sounding electronic music? Then you need look no further than Moon8, where you can find the entire Dark Side of the Moon album remade using the NES (the original Nintendo console) sound hardware.

It's surprisingly good, and close in spirit to the original. I'm listening to "Money" as I write - using earphones, naturally; I don't feel like being thrown out of the office by irate coworkers.

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

A bit off topic, I know, but: I've long loved the ukulele. It's such an unassuming, friendly little instrument. I even started playing it for a year or so and had a great time¹. One day, time permitting, I will get an ukulele and start learning it again.

Anyway, I recently stumbled on to The Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain. Lots of good stuff there. But, I'm also a long-time fan of Sergio Leone's old Spaghetti Westerns and of Ennio Morricone's classic film scores he wrote for them.

So, a soulful rendering of "The Good, The Bad, The Ugly" theme by ukulele orchestra is of course as close to musical entertainment nirvana as you can possibly get:



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#1 Unlike my neighbours, who had to endure a slow, badly played "House Of the Rising Sun" many, many, many more times than any human should ever have to. At least I wasn't singing.