The rhythm of Moondog pervades this early ‘50s album, his “friends”
amounting to little more than his wife on a version of the harp as he
scuttles through the “sound” of tree frogs, the “mood” of the oasis and
into his multi-part suite which brings in bowed strings and piano on
what’s a dramatic nocturne drawn into short, sharp pieces. No-one ever
sounded like Moondog, his pastoral whimsy and serious exactness in
arrangements making each work unique.
@Brighternow you are really bringing back the memories!
First off the Third Ear Band and now Moondog! Brings back those heady days of the late 60s and early 1970s when CBS introduced the concept of the sampler album (well they did for me!).
Moondog featured on the "Fill Your Head With Rock" album released in 1970 together with Santana, Spirit, Laura Nyro, Steamhammer, Leonard Cohen, Johnny Winter, Tom Rush, Al Kooper, BS&T, Black Widow, Skin Alley, Al Stewart, Janis Joplin, Flock, Michael Bloomfield - the list goes on and on!
It was a real education into some of the best rock of its day.
While we're at it, must listen to the first of them all - the venerable "The Rock Machine Turns You On" from 1968.
Includes great tracks from Bob Dylan, Santana, Chicago, Spirit, Moby Grape, The Zombies, BS&T, Electric Flag, Simon & Garfunkel, The Byrds, Tim Rose, Taj Mahal etc. A real embarrassment of riches!
A Jisei is one of the death poems belonging to Japanese tradition, sometimes referred to as the last words, the last images or the last sounds before the farewell. Jisei is composed of fragments, memories, field recordings, explorations on emptiness and objects having personal meanings. The album is informed by dusty impressions as if they were brushes creating forms which disappear as they take shape. Each track on Jisei is infused with restraint and stillness.
A wonderful collection of almost-not-there, sighing sound pieces.
Thanks Lowlife, first few tracks sound great, looking forward to the rest.
I've now played this album about six times since it arrived on Friday morning. If you are a Springsten fan it is brilliant, IMO. Springsteen and the E Street Band at their best but aged 70!
@ Peterfrederics - The Fill Your Head with Rock, and Rock Machine Turns You On albums take me back many decades. I owned both LPs, probably still got them somewhere. In those days, with so little access to recorded music they were ways that you coud listen to artists and work out if you wanted to buy a whole album. As a student then I had a very limited budget for music, so they were a great way into new artists. What is also intersting is the range of genres on one album - we listened to a much wider range of music then compared to what a 20 year old would now. Perhaps explains why I still listen toa wide range of artists now!
- A landmark piece of Esquivel, the futuristic sleeve, the tightening of
the arrangements and the teasing promise of “music from the future” all
make for a key space age bachelor pad music album. There is cheese, of
course, but its tempered by the orchestrations and the use of stereo
effects and the closing track, ‘It Had To Be You’ is worth the entrance
fee alone, elsewhere there's discordant noises and affected trad
melodies aplenty.
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Was (Not Was)
1980 Wheel Me Out 1983 Born To Laugh At Tornadoes
1988 What Up, Dog? 1990 Are You Okay?
2008 The Sparrow And The Crow
2009 La Commission Scolaire
Now that's weird I came across a blog post just yesterday featuring this album. Are we following each other around the web?
Jerry Jeff Walker
1975 Ridin' High 1976 It's A Good Night For Singin'
1977 A Man Must Carry On 1979 Too Old To Change
First off the Third Ear Band and now Moondog! Brings back those heady days of the late 60s and early 1970s when CBS introduced the concept of the sampler album (well they did for me!).
Moondog featured on the "Fill Your Head With Rock" album released in 1970 together with Santana, Spirit, Laura Nyro, Steamhammer, Leonard Cohen, Johnny Winter, Tom Rush, Al Kooper, BS&T, Black Widow, Skin Alley, Al Stewart, Janis Joplin, Flock, Michael Bloomfield - the list goes on and on!
It was a real education into some of the best rock of its day.
Includes great tracks from Bob Dylan, Santana, Chicago, Spirit, Moby Grape, The Zombies, BS&T, Electric Flag, Simon & Garfunkel, The Byrds, Tim Rose, Taj Mahal etc. A real embarrassment of riches!
1991 The Williams Brothers
Time Machine (1982 - 2002)
2002 The Emotional Rescue LP 2004 We Fight Til Death
2005 Giving Up The Ghost 2008 How We Lost
2004 Harem Of The Sundrum & The Witness Figg 2010 Death Seat
Emusic
Light Pipe by M Geddes Gengras
Still a favorite release.
2006 Let It Roll 2008 Pilgrim Road
ps Another set that I'd forgotten how good it was. (Robert Fisher) I see emusic has some others but they will have to wait till next go around.
2006 Streets Of New York
ps I've a soft spot for all those folks that make me think about Bob Dylan-
Pss ...or Johnny Dowd
Thanks Lowlife, first few tracks sound great, looking forward to the rest.
I've now played this album about six times since it arrived on Friday morning. If you are a Springsten fan it is brilliant, IMO. Springsteen and the E Street Band at their best but aged 70!
@ Peterfrederics - The Fill Your Head with Rock, and Rock Machine Turns You On albums take me back many decades. I owned both LPs, probably still got them somewhere. In those days, with so little access to recorded music they were ways that you coud listen to artists and work out if you wanted to buy a whole album. As a student then I had a very limited budget for music, so they were a great way into new artists. What is also intersting is the range of genres on one album - we listened to a much wider range of music then compared to what a 20 year old would now. Perhaps explains why I still listen toa wide range of artists now!
The Legendary Wolfgang Press And Other Tall Stories 1986 Standing Up Straight
1994 Funky Little Demons Everything Is Beautiful (A Retrospective 1983-1995)
2015 Stainless 2016 Chambers
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