Moondog - Viking Of Sixth Avenue CD Honest Jon's ESSENTIAL! NEW REISSUE

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Moondog - The Viking Of Sixth Avenue (CD)

Tracks -

A1		Theme And Variations
A2		Down Is Up
A3		Bumbo
A4		Big Cat
A5		Oo Debut
A6		Lament 1 'Bird's Lament'
A7		Moondog's Symphony 1 (Timberwolf)
A8		Moondog's Symphony 2 (Sagebrush)
A9		Rabbit Hop
A10		Rimshot
A11		Snaketime Rhythm
B1		Instrumental Round
B2		Double Bass Duo
B3		Why Spend The Dark Night With You
B4		All Is Loneliness
B5		Snaketime Rhythm
B6		Dragon's Teeth
B7		Oboe Round
B8		Be A Hobo
B9		Dog Trot
B10		Oasis
C1		Avenue Of The Americas
C2		2 W 46th Street
C3		Lullaby (2 W 46th Street)
C4		Fog On The Hudson (425 W 57th Street)
C5		Utsu
C6		On And Off The Beat
C7		Chant
C8		From One To Nine
C9		Improvisation In 4/4
C10		Enough About Human Rights!
C11		Viking 1
C12		Rimshot
D1		Chaconne In G Major
D2		Oasis
D3		Invocation

Moondog 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 rough (even though blind, since 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 till the late 1970s (by which time he was working with orchestras in Germany).

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 Bob Dylan, Marlon Brando, Steve Reich. Andy Warhol's mum 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 does him live.

This is the first retrospective of Moondog's music — thirty-six tracks from 1949 to 1995, most of them exceptionally rare and reissued now for the first time, all of them miraculous.

'This selection of 36 of his pieces for percussion, brass and the odd howling canine, and occasional, madrigal-like songs, is both ethereal and earthy, sounding old as the hills and utterly out of time. Sometimes it's almost jazz, mostly it's that rare thing in music: unique. Moondog was a creature of an entirely lost New York' (The Guardian).

'... utterly contemporary — invoking trance, fidgety electronica, spooky folk and oriental drones... Highly recommended' (Time Out).

'One thing's for certain: you can buy this album secure in the knowledge that nothing else in your collection sounds remotely like it. Go on, surprise yourself' (Observer Music Monthly).

Label: Honest Jon's

Condition: NEW MINT SEALED

Format: CD

Year: 1945-1990

Condition	New
Weight	0.11kg