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01. Moondog - Theme And Variations
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02. Moondog - Down Is Up
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03. Moondog - Bumbo
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04. Moondog - Big Dog
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05. Moondog - Oo Debut
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06. Moondog - Lament 1
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07. Moondog - Moondog's Symphony 1 (Timberwolf)
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08. Moondog - Moondog's Symphony 2 (Sagebrush)
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09. Moondog - Rabbit Hop
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10. Moondog - Rimshot
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11. Moondog - Snaketime Rhythm
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12. Moondog - Instrumental Round
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13. Moondog - Double Bass Duo
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14. Moondog - Why Spend The Dark Night With You
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15. Moondog - All Is Loneliness
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16. Moondog - Snaketime Rhythm
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17. Moondog - Dragon's Teeth
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18. Moondog - Oboe Round
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19. Moondog - Be A Hobo
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20. Moondog - Dog Trot
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21. Moondog - Oasis
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22. Moondog - Avenue Of The Americas
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23. Moondog - 2 W 46th Street
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24. Moondog - Lullaby (2 W 46th Street)
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25. Moondog - Fog On The Hudson (425 W 57th Street)
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26. Moondog - Utsu
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27. Moondog - On And Off The Beat
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28. Moondog - Chant
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29. Moondog - From One To Nine
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30. Moondog - Improvisation In 4/4
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31. Moondog - Enough About Human Rights !
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32. Moondog - Viking 1
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33. Moondog - Rimshot
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34. Moondog - Chaconne In G Major
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35. Moondog - Oasis
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36. Moondog - Invocation
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ARTIST
MOONDOG
TITLE
The Viking of Sixth Avenue
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
HONEST JON''S RECORDS
CATALOG #
HJR 018CD
HJR 018CD
GENRE
EXPERIMENTAL
RELEASE DATE
7/8/2008
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.
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