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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

MOONDOG



MOONDOG
MORE MOONDOG (+THE STORY OF MOONDOG) (1991)
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Moondog's second Prestige (released in 1956) album solidified his standing as a rare breed: a musician whose work was both highly experimental and approachable by listeners without a taste for the avant-garde. That's what enabled him to make a living as a street musician in Manhattan, after all. On this album he produced a variety of wonderful shaking percussion sounds and rhythms with an oo (a triangular stringed instrument struck with a clave) and even "Ostrich Feathers Played on Drum" (as the title on one track reads). The percussion is sometimes backed by sparse, Asian-sounding melodies, and there are also unpredictable interludes of solo piano, street sounds, and an eight-minute "Moondog Monologue." One of the round-like vocal numbers, the minute-long and inexpressibly sad "All Is Loneliness," found an unexpected second life in the 1960s when it was covered by Big Brother & the Holding Company. The album is now available as part of a single-disc CD reissue that also includes the whole of his subsequent Prestige album, The Story of Moondog (1957).

1. Duet: Queen Elizabeth Whistle and Bamboo Pipe
2. Conversation and Music at 51st St. & 6th Ave. (New York City)
3. Hardshoe (7/4) Ray Malone
4. Tugboat Toccata
5. Autumn
6. Seven Beat Suite [3 Parts]
7. Oo Solo [6/4]
8. Rehearsal of Violetta's "Barefoot Dance"
9. Oo Solo [2/4]
10. Ostrich Feathers Played on Drum
11. Oboe Round
12. Chant
13. All Is Loneliness
14. Sextet [Oo]
15. Fiesta Piano Solo
16. Moondog Monologue
17. Up Broadway
18. Perpetual Motion
19. Gloving It
20. Improvisation
21. Ray Malone Softshoe
22. Two Quotations in Dialogue
23. 5/8 in Two Shades
24. Moondog's Theme
25. In a Doorway
26. Duet
27. Trimbas in Quarters
28. Wildwood
29. Trimbas in Eighths
30. Organ Rounds

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Bonjour l'ami,

Et ben.....ton blog se lit comme un roman de Simenon et se regarde comme un film d'Alfred. Passionnant et inattendu. Surprise et découverte à chaque mouvement de souris. Pas de sectarisme. Des notes sont des notes.
Si un jour je pouvais tomber sur le disque de Robert Charlebois avec le morceau " trouvez mieux", mon nirvana ne sera plus très loin.

Un grand bravo et un immense merci

Francis