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  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1956
  • Label: Prestige
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 32:55
  • Community rating: 3.71/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Expanding upon his bizarre, utterly unique auditory landscape, the iconic New York street performer layers dense classical counterpoint over hypnotic, self-invented tribal percussion. The highly fragmented tracks frequently utilize overlapping spoken-word poetry, street noise, and complex, shifting time signatures, resulting in an entirely uncategorizable outsider aesthetic. It remains a deeply fascinating, fiercely independent precursor to both minimalist composition and avant-garde pop.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, lo-fi, rhythmic, ritualistic, traditional, folk, instrumental, archival, experimental, percussive, chamber, melodic, ensemble

Tracklist

  1. A Duet - Queen Elizabeth Whistle and Bamboo Pipe (00:55)
  2. Conversation and Music at 51st St. & 6th Ave (01:42)
  3. Hardshoe (7/4) Ray Malone (01:17)
  4. Tugboat Toccata (02:26)
  5. Autumn (02:10)
  6. Seven Beat Suite (3 Parts) (02:15)
  7. Oo Solo (6/4) (02:25)
  8. Rehearsal of Violetta's "Barefoot Dance" (a) Portrait of Ninon, a Cocker Spaniel (02:46)
  9. Oo Solo (2/4) (01:47)
  10. Ostrich Feathers Played on Drum (00:29)
  11. Oboe Round (01:08)
  12. Chant (00:47)
  13. All Is Loneliness (01:01)
  14. Sextett (Oo) (01:32)
  15. Fiesta Piano Solo (01:49)
  16. Moondog Monologue (08:26)

Credits

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