Moondog and His Friends
by Moondog
- Type: Album
- Released: 1953
- Label: Epic
- Country: United States
- Length: 26:16
- Community rating: 3.69/5 from 4 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Recorded shortly after he began performing as the blind street musician 'The Viking of 6th Avenue', this incredibly rare release introduces the bizarre, rhythmic world of Louis Hardin. 'Moondog and His Friends' blends unusual time signatures, custom-built percussion instruments, and fragments of classical counterpoint into a deeply eccentric urban folk style. It serves as a fascinating, raw precursor to his later, more polished minimalist masterworks.
Genres
Descriptors: Gangsta, avant-garde, rhythmic, acoustic, suite, lo-fi, traditional, folk, instrumental, archival, experimental, percussive, minimal
Tracklist
- Dragon's Teeth - Voices Of Spring (2:32)
- Oasis (3:00)
- Tree Frog - Be A Hobo (1:43)
- Instrumental Round - Double Bass Duo - Why Spend The Dark Night With You? (3:21)
- Theme And Variations - Rim Shot (3:32)
- Suite 1 - First Movement/Second Movement/Third Movement (5:55)
- Suite 2 - First Movement/Second Movement/Third Movement (6:11)
Credits
- Various - primary artist
- Mike Parlett - saxophone