Monday, June 28, 2021

Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments - BBC Arts

  I thought this was rather good, so I'll shall have to check them out. 


New Order's Blue Monday was released on 7 March 1983, and its cutting-edge electronic groove changed pop music forever. But what would it have sounded like if it had been made 50 years earlier? In a special film, using only instruments available in the 1930s - from the theremin and musical saw to the harmonium and prepared piano - the mysterious Orkestra Obsolete present this classic track as you've never heard it before.




2 comments:

Peter Pan said...

Was there this sort of avant garde stuff being produced in the 1930s?
Or would that have been considered indecent?

Kaivey said...

I think we get used to styles of music, so I don't think this would have made any sense to them. Traditional jazz might always sound great, though.