A suite of tracks all reminiscent of a weird but funny circus.
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Ice_Cream_Man-JPM
Illusions-JPM
Fairground_for_a_Mucus_Dress-JPM
Music_for_an_Underground_Circus-JPM
Ergo’s Circus Collection (Suite)
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Judas
Uncomfortable reggae-funk, with what sounds like electronic braying donkeys in the background (melodica). A quizzical brooding atmosphere with heavy beats. Imagine a slightly dysfunctional circus-like “Your Woman” by White Town.
Judas-JPM
Illusions
Delicate, soft harmonies from vintage synthesisers and glockenspiels. Dreamy atmosphere, inspiration from a melody by Edvard Grieg. Mysterious fantasy, sounds like something from Zelda.
Illusions-JPM
Flea Circus & Ice Cream Man
Flea Circus is a drunken comic waltz, with high cartoon singing and cracking whips. I’m including this as the entire website’s most ludicrously specific track. If someone uses this, it can only be for a scene with a circus of very small creatures singing drunkenly together. With whips.
Then (in Ice Cream Man) they all go off and get ice creams in opera mode. Of course.
Flea_Circus-JPM
Ice_Cream_Man-JPM
Fairground for a Mucus Dress
Music for a synthesised, circus party. Rhythmic, upbeat orchestral. Chaotic and crazy.
Fairground_for_a_Mucus_Dress-JPM
Dog Sled
Melodicas, Mandolin, strings, whistling and – get this – dog-like Inuit singing combine to create a rhythmic, snowy landscape atmosphere. Melancholy, otherworldly and humorous.
Dog_Sled-JPM
Daruckatekarte
Begins with quasi-gamelan, becoming a dreamlike, wobbly guitar piece with gentle funk rhythms.
Daruckatekarte-JPM
Dance With a Ball of Emperor Rudolf II
Neo-classical patterns for acoustic instruments. Atonal and jazzy, feeling off kilter, drunk, confused but happy.
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CERN Fulcanelli at the LHC
A quirky, charming theme with bell-like zithers, light percussion, with held sections with brooding percussion and lilting high electronic voices. A happy, bumbling and disjointed procession.
CERN_Fulcanelli_at_the_LHC-JPM
Big Underground Balls
Crazy upbeat and intense drum rhythms with dissonant fx developing into debauchery with harsh electric guitars. Reminiscent of a wild garage krautrock jam.
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