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Moondog  - Elpmas flac album
  • Performer Moondog
  • Title Elpmas
  • Date of release 1991
  • Style Minimal, Contemporary
  • Other formats WAV MP1 AA AIFF TTA XM MP4
  • Genre Electronic / Classical
  • Size MP3 1279 mb
  • Size FLAC 1721 mb
  • Rating: 4.6
  • Votes: 628

Moondog is the fifth album by American composer Moondog. Moondog had released no music for twelve years since his 1957 album The Story of Moondog. Finally, in 1969, producer James William Guercio invited him to record an album for Columbia Records. The resulting album compiled various music which Moondog had been working on since the 1950s.

Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999), also known as Moondog, was an American musician, composer, theoretician, poet and inventor of several musical instruments. He was blind from the age of 16. Hardin lived in New York City from the late 1940s until 1972, and during this time he could often be found on 6th Avenue, between 52nd and 55th Streets, wearing a cloak and a horned helmet sometimes busking or selling music, but often just standing silently on the sidewalk.

To shape the album, Moondog sampled the entire range of a marimba, note after note, used sound recordings of natural environments and different sound treatments and loops, all with the help of a ‘’computer’’. Moondog was indeed convinced that this tool only could help him reproduce the complex and tangled latticework he had in mind. Thus, elpmas has only existed within the studio

Biography by "Blue" Gene Tyranny. The Viking of 6th Avenue, the NYC street performer icon was actually a groundbreaking minimalist jazz composer feted by royalty.

No one has said anything yet. Contributions By. othelob.

2012 Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks, 1956. Pastoral Suite - Surf Session, Moondog On the Streets of New York. 2012 Two Original Albums. On The Streets of New York.

Tracklist

1 Wind River Powwow 7:11
2 Westward Ho! 6:00
3 Suite Equestria (Trail Versus Road And Trail) 7:14
4 Marimba Mondo 1 • The Rain Forest 5:33
5 Fujiyama 1 (Instr.) 4:43
6 Marimba Mondo 2 • Seascape Of The Whales 5:51
7 Fujiyama 2 (Lovesong) 5:01
8 Bird Of Paradise 2:40
9 The Message (A Cappella Male Chorus) 1:01
10 Introduction And Overtone Continuum 2:25
11 Cosmic Meditation 24:10

Companies, etc.

  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – Roof Music
  • Copyright (c) – Kopf Records
  • Published By – Managarm
  • Published By – Roof Music
  • Recorded At – St. Martin Tonstudio
  • Edited At – DMS, Marl
  • Mastered At – DMS, Marl
  • Pressed By – DADC Austria

Credits

  • Banjo – Götz Alsmann
  • Composed By [Compositions By] – Louis Hardin, Moondog
  • Guitar, Voice, Soloist [Solos], Whistling, Engineer [Engineered By], Mixed By – Andi Toma
  • Keyboards, Percussion, Voice – Louis Hardin
  • Mastered By [Mastering By], Edited By [Editing By] – Ulf Horbelt
  • Oboe – Henry Schuman
  • Photography By – H. Gross*, Volker (Pit) Pigors*
  • Piccolo Flute [Piccolo], Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Bass Saxophone – Johannes Leis
  • Producer [Produced By] – Andi Toma, Louis Hardin
  • Sleeve, Design [Sleeve Design] – Dirk Rudolph
  • Violone, Viol [Viola Da Gamba (Diskant, Tenor, Bass)] – Peter Wendland
  • Voice – Akbar Huck
  • Voice ["Little Man"] – Max Alsmann
  • Voice [Recitation] – Nobuko Sugai
  • Written By [Compositions By] – Louis Hardin (Moondog)

Notes

All compositions [...] ASCAP
Recorded at: Academy of St. Martin's in the streets
Digital mastering and Editing [...] at DMS, Gelsenkirchen
Andi Toma courtesy of Sony Music
published by managarm & roof music
[C] 1991 kopf records [P] 1991 roof music
[in booklet]

℗ Kopf Rec.
© Roof Music
[on CD]

Catalog number "KD 123314" on back cover, "kd 123314" on spine, "KD 12 33 14" on CD
Packaging: standard jewel case with 12-page booklet

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 4 014314 121425
  • Matrix / Runout: KD-123314 11 A1 DADC AUSTRIA
  • Rights Society (Louis Hardin (Moondog)): ASCAP
  • Rights Society: GEMA
  • Label Code: LC 5964


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Ungall
This needs a vinyl release, please. Cosmic Meditation especially, but the whole things would be a great release.