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Although Moondog is often thought of as a mere exotica novelty, thanks to the composer's eccentricities, it is, in fact, one of the finest third stream jazz albums of its era.
10y
I don't usually listen to this sort of albums, but I saw it on multiple "best avant garde albums" lists and I decided to check it out. And I liked it! The composition is very cool throughout and the pieces are all good. It is kind of short, but it probably didn't need to be any longer. A nice listen.
This is some really creative work.
“Symphonique #3” is in this strange place in between beautiful and dissonant and triumphant and sorrowful. There’s something almost unsettling about how difficult it is to pin this song down emotionally.
“Minisym #1” and “Lament I” see Moondog creating melodies only to then disassemble them and put them back together like a kid with a model plane.
There’s also some very fun percussion.
It’s hard to ... read more
So, I’m going to keep this short once I don’t have much to say. This was good in my opinion. Moondog is an artist who I have heard a few songs from, with the song that I’m most familiar with being “Do Your Thing”, which is great in my opinion. I wasn’t familiar with much, though, besides “Theme”, which is great in my opinion. But, I decided to listen to this album and… it is a good album. This is more of an classical sounding album and it ... read more
It’s a good album with some good stuff but it doesn’t stay completely interesting through its entirety. Album cover goes absolutely hard tho i cannot lie
Moondog is simply a mediocre set of classical interludes and pretenses to a nonexistent build.
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Track List
| 1 | Theme 2:35 | 79 |
| 2 | Stamping Ground 2:36 | 83 |
| 3 | Symphonique #3 (Ode to Venus) 2:51 | 85 |
| 4 | Symphonique #6 (Good for Goodie) 2:45 | 85 |
| 5 | Minisym #1 5:45
| 82 |
| 6 | Lament 1 (Bird's Lament) 1:42 | 87 |
| 7 | Witch of Endor 6:29
| 83 |
| 8 | Symphonique #1 (Portrait of a Monarch) 2:36 | 77 |
Total Length: 27 minutes
By AsexTwin
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1y
Honestly for years I thought that was some painting or photograph taken of a random old man. Searched up Moondog recently and realized he just looks like that. Crazy sense of fashion too