Name: More Moondog / Story Of Moondog
Brand: Moondog

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HJRLP106

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Black

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More Moondog

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-04-15

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Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Honest Jons

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4047179216814

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Moondog

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Modern Composition

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Moondog, born on May 26, 1916 in Marysville, Kansas and passed away on September 8, 1999 in Münster, Germany. Despite losing his sight at the age of 17 due to an accident involving a dynamite cap, he continued to write most of his music in braille. Moondog was a revered pioneer on the avant-garde/minimalist scene, particularly within the jazz realm. His revolutionary approach to composition and melody earned him praise from influential contemporaries such as Philip Glass and Steve Reich. He drew comparisons to Harry Partch in terms of style and attitude. Moondog's influence can be heard in the works of Stereolab and Moonshake among many others.

For his own label see [l104171]

Similar Artists: Meredith Monk, Terry Riley, Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane, Steve Reich, John Cage, Ornette Coleman,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,Kronos Quartet,Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Philip Glass ,John Zorn ,Pharoah Sanders,Henry Cow,Sun Ra Arkestra,
Albert Ayler,Penguin Cafe Orchestra ,Robert Wyatt ,Harry Partch,Dominique Ponty

startlingly remastered at abbey road, two of moondogs key albums, and a kind of summation of his work throughout the 1950s, when he was homeless and performing on the streets of new york. this is moondog at his most direct, original, fresh, playful and let-it-be-said unpretentious featuring the honking geese, tony schwartzs brilliant outdoors recordings (particularly improved in this new version), with interventions from a ships foghorn, a tapdancer and a cocker spaniel, and signature rhythms for trimba, oo, tuji, yukh, and ostrich feathers. andy warhols mother got it straight, on the original prestige cover of story - "moondog is a poet who versifies in sound, a diarist overcome by love, curiosity and amusement by everything that reaches his ears, all of which he transposes into a symphony of himself. it may be the roar from the streets; it may be the casual chatter in a room or, best of all, it will be that secret music that seeps through imagination and memory. these experiences, so dull to the dull but so alive to him, he orchestrates into a record of those enchanting conversations everyone can hold with himself would he only listen for a bemused moment. they make up the script of that unique tragi-comedy, the story of anyones life. pricking up our ears would be so easy, yet it is seldom done. but when moondog compels us to do it, we are entranced and delivered willingly into new worlds of meaning."

Both albums on 1 CD, otherwise available individually on vinyl.

More Moondog / Story Of Moondog

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