This was performed on my CZ-101 synthesizer from Casio way back in the early 1980s.  It struck me as kind of a steampunk calliope, though the word “steampunk” hadn’t been coined yet, hence the name it’s stuck with.

I picture a high-tech Jules Verne style merry-go-round where each disturbing animal mount is some creature from a different planet.  As you ride faster and faster around the circle, you eventually dematerialize and your consciousness is transported into the body of that same creature on another world as an adventure.  But just as in Ray Bradbury’s “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, the rides at “Cougar and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show” often come with consequences.

As you can hear, I was getting a little more comfortable with my synth and stretched a little farther here than in my earlier song, Anticipation.