COSMONAUTUL MIC

COSMONAUTUL MIC...

As promised, the first one from a series of fictive title music. "Cosmonautul mic" ("The little cosmonaut") was a short-lived Romanian children's series that never ran on Romanian State Television in 1965 due to whatever.

However, when your faithful Fandorin hiked the Carpathians, he met an old Romanian herdsman, in fact, he was aayyyncient.... he sported a beard that was so long several lambs were hiding inside, for it was warm and cuddly inside and they had all they ever needed. I stroked the velvety lambian snouts and endowed the old herder with a cigarette and a warm cap, for the lambs had eaten most of the herder's hair and it was really really chilly on the way to Moldoveanu.



Forsooth, the old man looked fantastic with this little cap of mine, and he took me to his humble wooden hut, and it was a most modest place. A warm Romanian herdsman's wife smile invited me for several hundred grams of the finest Tsuica made from everything fermentable (probably fir cones, pine bark and those little wriggly whitey thingies you might find in an ant hill) and -

Lo & Behold!

his wife had been a sound engineer and TV composer (wearer of some long forgotten order, True And Deserved National Artist of Romania or something)
and her husband constructed the Romanian Socialist Answer to Hammond's organ (it filled several rooms and the rotating Leslie Cabinet had been replaced by something looking roughly like a helicopter)...be that as it may, both fell from grace when Ceausescu, the little scumbag took finally over, for their TV themes did not reflect the Greatness and Boldness of Dacian Culture...and so they had been living in exile ever since.

The old ones were as poor as you can be, but they were happy. Solemnly, they gave me a huge and dusty and old tape reel (for the woolen pompon hat was the real thing!), telling me it was a recording of the Little Cosmonaut title song. And I could do with the reels whatever I think would be appropriate.

Music is there to be released - if you go to Fandorin's music page, you might find a remnant of a long gone past that actually never existed.