The Story of Moondog

by Moondog

The Story of Moondog cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 1957
  • Label: Prestige
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 3.3/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Captured by the legendary blind street musician known as the 'Viking of Sixth Avenue', this bizarre, highly imaginative album completely defies traditional genre boundaries. Utilizing custom-built percussion instruments and street sounds, the compositions blend dense classical counterpoint with deeply hypnotic, tribal polyrhythms. The visionary, wildly eccentric recordings profoundly influenced the impending development of minimalist classical music and experimental avant-garde pop.

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic, repetitive, complex, acoustic, lo-fi

Tracklist

  1. Up Broadway
  2. Perpetual Motion
  3. Gloving It
  4. Improvisation
  5. Ray Malone Softshoe
  6. Two Quotations In Dialogue
  7. 5/8 In Two Shades
  8. Moondog's Theme
  9. In A Doorway
  10. Duet
  11. Trimbas In Quarters
  12. Wildwood
  13. Trimbas In Eighths
  14. Organ Rounds

Credits

  • Moondog - primary artist, written-by
  • Nathan Gluck - calligraphy
  • Andy Warhol - cover
  • Ray Malone - tap dance
  • Bebe Barron - voice
  • Louis Barron - voice
  • Sam Ulano - drums

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