In which a bee stings a pianist's hand and all musical hell breaks loose

May 5, 2015 9:41 PM

"Alfonso Muskedunder", an animated video by Bendik Kaltenborn and Espen Friberg for the song by Norwegian DJ, songwriter, and record producer Todd Terje. A '60s jazz influenced (yes that's 7/8 time) hodge-podge with 4 additional remixes (soundcloud) and a 'shortreel' of animated outtakes, it's the latest addition to a series of oddball-character-themed singles: "Inspector Norse", "Delorean Dynamite" and "Leisure Suit Preben".
posted by oneswellfoop (16 comments total)

btw, discovered via MeFi's Own louche mustachio's "Your Daily Cartoon"
posted by oneswellfoop at 9:46 PM on May 5, 2015 [1 favorite]

Killer drum solo! And the animation that goes with it is perfect...
posted by otherthings_ at 10:01 PM on May 5, 2015

Terje is the best. Norway is so hot right now.
posted by chaz at 10:58 PM on May 5, 2015 [3 favorites]

Ahhh, I loved Inspector Norse - can't wait to watch this.
posted by en forme de poire at 11:38 PM on May 5, 2015

Terje really does rule. Remaster of the universe is such a monster mixtape that i played completely to death.
posted by emptythought at 11:39 PM on May 5, 2015

(did not disappoint, a++ would get stung by a psychoactive bee again)
posted by en forme de poire at 11:42 PM on May 5, 2015

This video isn't very similar to what being stung by a bee is like. I suppose that's a good thing!
posted by aubilenon at 11:56 PM on May 5, 2015

> Norway is so hot right now.

...that's Norway. HE'S SO HOT RIGHT NOW.
posted by ostranenie at 12:05 AM on May 6, 2015 [2 favorites]

Every day I pray for the right opportunity to come along that will allow me to invite Todd to collaborate 50/50 on a melodic funky disco house video game soundtrack that kids will grow up singing along with
If any of you have connections that might help make this happen, hmu
posted by jake at 1:35 AM on May 6, 2015 [2 favorites]

Hmm. I didn't see any muskedunder in the video. I'm disappoint.

(...but it made me look up why it's muskedunder in Norwegian and Swedish and blunderbuss in English, so TIL that the origin is donderbus ("thunderpipe") in Dutch, and muskedunder is simply musket+thunder. Not sure how thunder turned into blunder, though...)
posted by effbot at 3:12 AM on May 6, 2015

Perfect.
posted by fungible at 4:50 AM on May 6, 2015

That was great. Maybe I'm getting old, but it's really nice to watch an animation have fun being weird without trying to be grotesque or shock you.
posted by ropeladder at 5:32 AM on May 6, 2015

A perfect marriage of creative, interesting and harmonically interesting music (love the scat vocals) and exquisite animation.. BRAVO!!!!
posted by Seekerofsplendor at 10:19 AM on May 6, 2015

Anyone who liked this, give the whole album a listen, it's called It's Album Time.
posted by JauntyFedora at 1:22 PM on May 6, 2015 [1 favorite]

The Inspector Norse video is actually part of a longer mockumentary called WHATEVEREST, which is worth a watch (it's quite somber, though).
posted by GenericUser at 2:11 PM on May 6, 2015 [1 favorite]

That made me very happy. Thank you.
posted by Devonian at 7:12 PM on May 6, 2015