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- Date Released: January 1, 1956
- Genre: Soundtracks/Other
- Style: World, World Fusion
- Label: Fantasy / Prestige
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They Say...
Moondog's second Prestige 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).
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| 01. |  |
Duet: Queen Elizabeth Whistle And Bamboo Pipe |
0:55 |
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| 02. | |
Conversation And Music At 51st St. & 6th Ave. |
1:42 |
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| 03. | |
Hardshoe (7/4) Ray Malone |
1:17 |
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| 04. | |
Tugboat Tocatta |
2:26 |
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| 05. | |
Autumn |
2:10 |
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| 06. | |
Seven Beat Suite (3 Parts) |
2:16 |
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| 07. | |
OO Solo (6/4) |
2:25 |
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| 08. | |
Rehearsal Of Violetta's |
2:46 |
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| 09. | |
OO Solo (2/4) |
1:47 |
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| 10. |
Ostrich Feathers Played On Drum |
0:29 |
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| 11. | |
Oboe Round |
1:08 |
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| 12. | |
Chant |
0:48 |
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| 13. | |
All Is Loneliness |
1:02 |
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| 14. | |
Sextet (OO) |
1:32 |
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| 15. | |
Fiesta Piano Solo |
1:49 |
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| 16. | |
Moondog Monologue |
8:26 |
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| 17. | |
Up Broadway |
5:09 |
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| 18. | |
Perpetual Motion |
1:10 |
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| 19. | |
Gloving It |
1:32 |
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| 20. | |
Improvisation |
3:44 |
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| 21. | |
Ray Malone's Softshoe |
3:22 |
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| 22. | |
Two Qouatations In Dialogue |
0:46 |
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| 23. | |
5/8 In Two Shades |
1:00 |
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| 24. | |
Moondog's Theme |
1:55 |
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| 25. | |
In A Doorway |
5:42 |
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| 26. | |
Duet |
2:28 |
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| 27. | |
Trimbas In Quarters |
1:50 |
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| 28. | |
Wildwood |
2:46 |
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| 29. | |
Trimbas In Eighths |
1:11 |
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| 30. | |
Organ Rounds |
2:03 |
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30 Total Tracks, 67:36 Total Length
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