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The Viking Of Sixth Avenue
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| Previously licensed to Astralwerks in the U.S., now re-released on its original label, Honest Jon's, with new and improved gatefold card wallet sleeve packaging. Poet, composer, street musician and cosmologist Moondog (Louis Thomas Hardin, 1916-1999) learned rhythm from American Indians and counterpoint from J.S. Bach. Many of his recordings feature instruments he built himself: trimba, yukh, tuji, oo. Sometimes you can hear in the background the streets of New York, where Moondog often slept. In addition, he was blind, due to an accident when he was 15. Sometime in the 1950s, fed up with being mistaken on the street for Christ (his regular busking spot was uptown on Sixth) Moondog put on a Viking costume, with spear and horned helmet; and he dressed like this until the late 1970s (by which time he was working with orchestras in Germany). Moondog's renown was extensive: Igor Stravinsky lobbied a judge on Moondog's behalf. Charlie Parker wanted to play with him, Julie Andrews DID play with him, and he was feted by the likes of Bob Dylan, Marlon Brando, and Steve Reich. Andy Warhol's mother designed one of his covers, and Weegee took photographs of him (included in the booklet). Janis Joplin covered him, Mr. Scruff owes him badly, and Antony and the Johnsons covers his songs. This is the first retrospective of Moondog's music -- 36 tracks from 1949-1995, most of them exceptionally rare, all of them miraculous. |
TRACKS
1. Theme And Variations
2. Down Is Up
3. Bumbo
4. Big Cat
5. Oo Debut
6. Lament 1 'Bird's Lament'
7. Moondog's Symphony 1
8. Moondog's Symphony 2
9. Rabbit Hop
10. Rimshot
11. Snaketime Rhythm
12. Instrumental Round
13. Double Bass Duo
14. Why Spend The Dark Night With You?
15. All Is Loneliness
16. Snaketime Rhythm
17. Dragon's Teeth
18. Oboe Round
19. Be A Hobo
20. Dog Trot
21. Oasis
22. Avenue Of The Americas
23. 2 W 46Th Street
24. Lullaby
25. Fog On The Hudson
26. Utsu
27. On And Off The Beat
28. Chant
29. From One To Nine
30. Improvisation In 4/4
31. Enough About Human Rights!
32. Viking
33. Rimshot
34. Chaconne In G Major
35. Oasis
36. Invocation |
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