One of the more obscure percussion elements in the recent history of music is the Hang (pronounced "hung", sometimes also called the "Hang Drum"), a UFO-shaped cousin of the steel drum, invented and produced by the Swiss company PANArt. Here is a video of Hang virtuoso Manu Delago in a duet with Christoph 'Pepe' Auer on bass clarinet, covering the Tetris theme music.
There are many more Manu Delago videos on YouTube, with and without bass clarinet, originals and covers, and they are all worth watching. By the way, he is currently on tour in the US (with one gig in Montreal, Canada). Here is another video, the Manu Delago composition 'Ob ihr wirklich richtig steht, seht ihr wenn das Licht angeht' for 3 players on 2 marimbas. This would be hard to pull off live, but who knows...
The Tetris theme is a Russian folk song called "Коробейники", though it's never before been played quite like this as far as I know.
Posted by: illlich | April 06, 2009 at 03:23 PM
Oh, look at him bein' all savvy with the syncopation around 2:15.
Posted by: Munro | April 07, 2009 at 12:42 AM