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moondog - more moondog / the story of moondog - honest jons records - cd

Genre: Jazz

1. A Duet - Queen Elizabeth Whistle And Bamboo Pipe
2. Conversation And Music At 51st Street And 6th Avenue (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 Violettas Barefoot Dance
9. Oo Solo (2 / 4)
10. Ostrich Feathers Played On Drums
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. Moondogs Theme
25. In A Doorway
26. Duet
27. Trimbas In Quarters
28. Wildwood
29. Trimbas In Eighths
30. Organ Rounds

'More Moondog' (HJRCD106), combining 'More Moondog' (HJRLP106) and 'The Story Of Moondog' (HJRLP107).

Remastered at Abbey Road, two of Moondog’s key albums, and a kind of summation of his work throughout the 1950s, when he was homeless and performing on the streets of New York.
This is Moondog at his most direct, original, fresh, playful and let-it-be-said unpretentious — featuring the Honking Geese, Tony Schwartz’s brilliant outdoors recordings (particularly improved in Honest Jon’s new version), with interventions from a ship’s foghorn, a tapdancer and a cocker spaniel, and signature rhythms for trimba, oo, tuji, yukh, and ostrich feathers.
Andy Warhol’s mother got it straight, on the original Prestige cover of Story — ‘Moondog is a poet who versifies in sound, a diarist overcome by love, curiosity and amusement by everything that reaches his ears, all of which he transposes into a symphony of himself. It may be the roar from the streets; it may be the casual chatter in a room or, best of all, it will be that secret music that seeps through imagination and memory.
These experiences, so dull to the dull but so alive to him, he orchestrates into a record of those enchanting conversations everyone can hold with himself would he only listen for a bemused moment. They make up the script of that unique tragi-comedy, the story of anyone’s life. Pricking up our ears would be so easy, yet it is seldom done. But when Moondog compels us to do it, we are entranced and delivered willingly into new worlds of meaning.’