Delicate harmonies on strings, with later gentle percussion and theremin-like synthesiser.
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Kentish Plover
Triplet-feel dramatic orchestral refrain, with soft voices and repeating phrases. This is hilarious and highly dramatic at the same time. Perfect for an episode of Bagpuss, if Bagpuss was trying to fly a biplane to the moon. Includes real violins, voices, kazoo, accordion, wooden percussion and a whole lot of interesting phrasing.
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Ergo’s Circus Collection (Suite)
A suite of tracks all reminiscent of a weird but funny circus.
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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.
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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.
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Fairground for a Mucus Dress
Music for a synthesised, circus party. Rhythmic, upbeat orchestral. Chaotic and crazy.
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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.
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Daruckatekarte
Begins with quasi-gamelan, becoming a dreamlike, wobbly guitar piece with gentle funk rhythms.
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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.
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