Moondog ‎– "Moondog 2" (Columbia ‎– KC 30897) 1971

Looking at Moondog on the sleeve of this album, he looks like he knows something that we don't. That's not saying much, as we, humanity, tend to know Fuck All about anything. His music seems to come from a universal consciousness that we disabled normals are too far up our own arseholes to detect.
Our Disability is that we're not disabled or terminally ill to appreciate life without the dense sump oil leaking from this awful machine that we've created to make our pitifully short existence in this domension worse than torture.
Moondog lost his sight due to a bizarre accident with Dynamite in his teenage years. Without that wonderful event this incredible music would never have happened, leading to a future world without Reich and Glass,or The Residents?...Perhaps,but as we've seen in many a science fiction story, the slightest change in history can result in a vast difference in the cause and effect results in the future. No Residents would have meant that man who invented the perfect intelligent android clone for humans wouldn't have been distracted enough not to invent our own replacements. So Moondog saved human civilisation?......in that case maybe young Louis shouldn't have been blinded and become as idiotic as us. A different alternative scenario exists for Glass and Reich, probably involving hypnotising the populus to blindly elect  thee stupidest president ever to grace the oval office and start world war three,the last war.....not the war to end war,but the war to end existence. In that alternative future, it would be essential that Moondog be blinded. Now it gets complicated. so its Moondogs fault we got Trump, but ......i dunno, fuck it...there is only NOW!..as that wise old sage Chuck Manson used to say.
Bacically, I love this album, and I love Moondog. This is pure music,channeled from somewhere we ordinary fuckers could never comprehend.So listen and enjoy and don't think too much.


Tracklist:

A1 Bells Are Ringing 1:19
A2 Voices Of Spring 1:47
A3 What's The Most Exciting Thing? 2:31
A4 All Is Loneliness 1:16
A5 My Tiny Butterfly 1:12
A6 Why Spend A Dark Night With Me? 1:09
A7 Coffee Beans 2:10
A8 Down Is Up 1:07
A9 Be A Hobo 1:09
A10 Remember 1:52
A11 I Love You 1:08
A12 Nero's Expedition 1:52
A13 No, The Wheel Was Never Invented 1:20
B1 With My Wealth 1:35
B2 This Student Of Life 1:24
B3 Some Trust All 1:28
B4 Wine, Woman And Song 2:23
B5 Sadness 1:22
B6 Maybe 2:03
B7 Each Today Is Yesterday's Tomorrow 1:37
B8 Imagine 2:16
B9 You The Vandal 2:08
B10 Trees Against The Sky 1:18
B11 Behold 1:27
B12 Sparrow 1:37
B13 Pastoral 2:42

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Moondog ‎– "Moondog" (CBS ‎– 63906) 1969

Anyone who wears a cloak,a horned vikings helmet,and carries a spear, has gotta be given a chance to make a major label album in my opinion.
Moondog, aka blind bloke Louis Hardin, from his perch on the corner of 54th or 55th street and 6th Avenue,was not a homeless begger,but a revered pioneer on the avant-garde/minimalist scene in New York.Working as a street musician since the late forties,he was a regular sight on his pitch until he moved to Germany in 1972.As he shared the same fascination with the nordic myth as did Wagner and Hitler.Moondog had an idealised view of Germany ("The Holy Land with the Holy River"), where he settled until he died in 1999.There's a Moondog statue spmewhere in Munster apparently!?

"The Viking of 6th Avenue" ,as he was known by the less clued up members of the public, had developed a revolutionary attitude towards composition and melody that was much lauded,and influenced such eminent contemporaries as Philip Glass and Steve Reich. There's also an obvious influence on the Residents,whether thats the similarity to the works of Harry Partch,or not,i dunno,but its there.Only the blind can truly see.

Tracklist:

A1 Theme 2:35
A2 Stamping Ground 2:36
A3 Symphonique #3 (Ode To Venus) 5:51
A4 Symphonique #6 (Good For Goodie) 2:45
B1 Minsym #1 5:45
B2 Lament I, "Bird's Lament" 1:42
B3 Witch Of Endor 6:29
B4 Symphonique #1 (Portrait Of A Monarch) 2:36

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