- Format: CD
- Label: Fantasy
- Genre: Jazz
His given name is Louis Thomas Hardin. He was born in 1916, grew up amidst native Americans in Wyoming, and began his career as a Manhattan street musician during World War II. By the time he began recording for Prestige in the Fifties, Moondog had developed an underground following that is sustained to this day. This CD combines his second and third Prestige albums, and features his explorations of polyrhythms, drones, and inverted sounds--world music from a world of Moondog’s own.
Track listing:Duet: Queen Elizabeth Whistle and Bamboo Pipe, Conversation and Music at 51st St. & 6th Ave. (New York City), Hardshoe (7/4) Ray Malone, Tugboat Toccata, Autumn, Seven Beat Suite (3 parts), Oo solo (6/4), Rehearsal of Violetta's "Barefoot Dance," Oo solo (2/4), Ostrich Feathers Played on Drum, Oboe Round, Chant, All Is Loneliness, Sextet (Oo), Fiesta Piano Solo, Moondog Monologue, plus CD bonus tracks Up Broadway, Perpetual Motion, Gloving It, Improvisation (piano solo), Ray Malone Softshoe, Two Quotations in Dialogue, 5/8 in Two Shades, Moondog's Theme, In a Doorway, Duet, Trimbas in Quarters, Wildwood, Trimbas in Eighths, Organ Rounds
