Moondog--More_Moondog-Remastered-2009-i8

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      a r t i s t : Moondog
        t i t l e : More Moondog
          d a t e : 2009
        l a b e l : Honest Jon's Records
        g e n r e : Avantgarde
  r l s.  d a t e : Mar/2009
      t r a c k s : 30
    b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
          s i z e : 56,9 MB

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     Originally released in 1956, More Moondog was the second album
     by Louis Thomas Hardin. The tone of this fragmented, wildly
     eclectic body of work tends to rest its focus on percussion,
     exploring the Eastern-influenced, gamelan-styled sounds
     developed by homemade instruments like Moondog's famed
     "trimba" and "oo". The majority of the compositions here are
     brief, often very intricate miniatures, which within the space
     of a mere minute or two instantly place you in Moondog's
     singular sound world, structured with difficult time
     signatures and populated by sounds that are quite unlike
     anything you'd hear anywhere else. It's hard to imagine how
     alien this music must have been back in the 1950s.. When the
     longer-form pieces arrive they embellish upon this primal,
     outsider aesthetic with visceral, jazzy arrangements. 'Up
     Broadway' is an urgent and thorny arrangement combining the
     rhythmic complexity found elsewhere with aggressive horns,
     while 'In A Doorway lets a little of the outside world into
     its recording, embracing the street sounds that so influenced
     Moondog's early works and intermingling them with
     instrumentation. It's a curious combination of musical
     improvisation and concrete sound that you simply would not
     associate with this era. The album is completed with a
     selection of strange avant-garde pieces drawing on speech
     recordings and more lyrical, solo recordings played on
     keyboard instruments, including the almost ragtime 'Fiesta
     Piano Solo' which demonstrates the lack of agenda in this
     composer's canon. Moondog's outsiderness ensures an approach
     to modern composition that doesn't ever establish any single,
     fixed identity, which is of course what makes this man such an
     alluring figure in 20th century music.

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      01-A Duet ù Queen Elizabeth Whistle And Bamboo Pipe       [00:54]
      02-Conversation And Music At 51st Street And 6th Avenue   [01:42]
      (New York City)
      03-Hardshoe (7/4) Ray Malone                              [01:16]
      04-Tugboat Toccata                                        [02:27]
      05-Autumn                                                 [02:10]
      06-Seven Beat Suite (3 Parts)                             [02:15]
      07-Oo Solo (6/4)                                          [02:25]
      08-Rehearsal Of Violetta's 'Barefoot Dance'               [02:49]
      09-Oo Solo (2/4)                                          [01:46]
      10-Ostrich Feathers Played On Drums                       [00:28]
      11-Oboe Round                                             [01:07]
      12-Chant                                                  [00:46]
      13-All Is Loneliness                                      [01:01]
      14-Sextet (Oo)                                            [01:31]
      15-Fiesta Piano Solo                                      [01:49]
      16-Moondog Monologue                                      [08:35]
      17-Up Broadway                                            [05:12]
      18-Perpetual Motion                                       [01:10]
      19-Gloving It                                             [01:28]
      20-Improvisation                                          [03:46]
      21-Ray Malone Softshoe                                    [03:21]
      22-Two Quotations In Dialogue                             [00:42]
      23-5/8 In Two Shades                                      [00:55]
      24-Moondog's Theme                                        [01:55]
      25-In A Doorway                                           [05:43]
      26-Duet                                                   [02:29]
      27-Trimbas In Quarters                                    [01:46]
      28-Wildwood                                               [02:44]
      29-Trimbas In Eighths                                     [01:08]
      30-Organ Rounds                                           [02:09]
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                                                                 67:29 min

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