COLUMBIA / CARIBOU RSD LP 88985403691: Moondog - 2017 EU, White LP, MP3 SEALED

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Vinyl LP in BRAND NEW, FACTORY SEALED condition. Issued in 2017, made in the EU, issued for RSD 2017 on WHITE Vinyl and includes a digital download for the entire LP - this item is OUT OF PRINT - pictures are of the ACTUAL ITEM.
He was born Louis Hardin, but the world knew him as Moondog—and his avant-garde compositions influenced a generation of minimalist composers like Philip Glass and Steve Reich. Now, Moondog, The Viking of 6th Avenue’s seminal 1969 album recorded with producer James William Guercio, will be reissued on white vinyl, its first pressing in over a decade. Featuring original symphonic and classically-inspired works (including material dedicated to Charlie Parker and Benny Goodman), Moondog is an album that must be heard to be believed.

A mostly self-taught composer, Louis Hardin was born in Marysville, KS on May 26, 1916. The family eventually moved to Wyoming, where his father, who had been an Episcopalian minister, opened a trading post at Fort Bridger, and had two different ranches. Young Hardin went to school in a log cabin in Burnt Fork, WY, and fished, hunted, and trapped. Later, he rode a horse to school in Long Tree, a cattle community. He wrote that his first drum set " ...at the age of five, was a cardboard box". He also went with his father to an Arapho Sun Dance, where he sat on Chief Yellow Calf's lap and played the buffalo skin  tom-tom. Later, in 1949, he played tom-tom and flute at a Sun Dance held by the Blackfoot in Idaho. The constant "tom-tom" beat became incorporated in many of his later pieces, such as the complex canon for marimbas "Wind River Powwow: Arapa-Host, Arapa-Home, Arapa-Hope." He played drums in Hurley High School in 1929, and he lost his sight in his early teens when a dynamite cap exploded. He studied music and finished high school at the Iowa School for the Blind, and in 1933, studied braille at the Missouri School for the Blind in St. Louis. "I write all my music in braille. When I write for orchestra, I do not write scores any more, but just write out parts, for the score is in my head and just writing out the parts cuts the time and cost in half ... anyhow, if my pieces were ever in demand, a score to each could be made from the parts. I call this process 'intracting', as opposed to the opposite, having a score and 'extracting' parts from it. From the braille I dictate every slur, tie, expression mark." It is then written in pencil by another person, read back and corrected, then inked in by another person - " .. double trouble". Hardin lived in Batesville, AR until 1942 when he got a scholarship to study in Memphis. However, he mostly taught himself ear training and other musical skills, and theory from books in braille. In the fall of 1943, he came to New York and met Artur Rodzinski, Leonard Bernstein, and then Toscanini. In a legendary story, Hardin made to kiss Toscanini's hand " ... whereupon he pulled it away, saying, 'I am not a beautiful woman'". Hardin began using the name Moondog as a pen name in 1947 in honor of a dog "who used to howl at the moon more than any dog I knew of." His music, constructed of direct musical gestures and built mostly from pure modal themes expanded by sophisticated contrapuntal techniques, would now receive the avant-garde label of "minimal" or pattern music, but this sound has characterized his music since the late '40s, and is thus a precursor of that postmodern compositional style. In New York, Moondog began to meet legendary jazz performer-composers, such as Charlie Parker and Benny Goodman, and to incorporate jazz inflections, as well as humorous philosophical couplets and environmental sounds into his recorded compositions -- the early recordings on the Prestige label in 1956 - 1957 contain brief pieces such as "Up Broadway/The impressions of Moondog as He Passes Birdland and the Palladium up the Great White Way ... (a) Broadway and 52nd St., the Jazz Corner of the World. A dog Trot in 1/4 Time ... (b) Broadway and 53rd St, the Afro-Cuban Corner of the World -- A Bumbo in 4/4 time ...," and a duet for the whistle of the ocean liner the Queen Elizabeth and a bamboo flute. Moondog also sold his printed music and records, and performed on the streets of Manhattan. His music truly expressed a universal vision with the best of American musical sensibilities. Moondog passed away on September 8, 1999 in Germany at the age of 83. - Blue Gene Tyranny

Moondog's second self-titled album (the first one came out in 1956 on the independent jazz label Prestige) was the idiosyncratic composer's first release in 12 years, and it shows how much Moondog's already rich music had matured since 1957's The Story of Moondog. Where Moondog's '50s records were jazz-based, Moondog showcases the composer's orchestral side; producer James William Guercio assembled an orchestra of over 40 musicians from the classical and jazz worlds (including flutist Hubert Laws and bassist Ron Carter), and although the pieces are quite compact -- ranging from the expansive three-part ballet suite "Witch of Endor" to the eight-second spoken poem "Cuplet" -- Moondog uses the expanded range of tonal colors and dynamics impressively. For someone who spent most of his career performing solo on a street corner in Manhattan, Moondog's arrangements on pieces like the jazz-canon's "Stamping Ground" are not only admirably complex, but also richly melodic. 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. The best-known track on this album, "Bird's Lament," was the uncredited basis for dance DJ Mr. Scruff's "Get a Move On," which was used in an extended series of minivan commercials in 2002. - Stewart Mason

• COLUMBIA / CARIBOU Records LP item
  

• Record Made in the EU (likely the UK)

• Pressing is in STEREO
  

• Limited Edition, RSD 2017 issue, WHITE vinyl, includes Digital Download
  

• Record Speed: 33 rpm

• Record Made / Issued in: 2017 (OUT OF PRINT)
  

• Record Catalog Number: MS 7335  (88985403691)

Featured on this item:

Moondog

RSD LP Title -

Moondog

Track Listing -

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         
Mini-Sym #1 - 5:45
B1a I - Allegro
B1b II - Andante Adagio
B1c II - Vivace
B2 Lament I, "Bird's Lament” - 1:42         
Witch Of Endor - 6:29
B3a I - Dance
B3b II - Trio
B3b1 A. Adagio (The Prophesy)
B3b2 B. Andante (The Battle)
B3b3 C. Agitato (Soul's Death)
B3c III - Dance (Reprise)
B4 Symphonique #1 (Portrait Of A Monarch) - 2:36

Performed By / Credits on this LP include -

• Distributed By – Sony Music Entertainment
• Pressed By – MPO
• Baritone Saxophone – Wally Kane
• Bass – Alfred Brown, George Duvivier, Louis Hardin, Ron Carter
• Bass Clarinet – Ernie Bright*
• Bass Trombone – Paul Faulise
• Bassoon – Don Macourt*, George Berg, Jack Knitzer, Joyce Kelly, Ryohei Nakagawa, Wally Kane
• Cello – Charles McCracken, George Ricci
• Clarinet – George Silfies, Jimmy Abato, Phil Bodner
• Composed By [All Selections], Liner Notes – Louis Hardin
• Contrabass – Joe Tekula
• Engineer [Engineering] – Arthur Kendy, Fred Plaut
• English Horn – Henry Shuman, Irving Horowitz
• Flugelhorn [Flügelhorn] – Joe Wilder
• Flute – Andrew Lolya, Harold Bennett
• French Horn – Brooks Tillotson, James Buffington, Ray Alonge, Richard Berg
• Percussion – Bob Rosengarden, Dave Carey*, Elayne Jones, Jack Jennings
• Piccolo Flute – Harold Jones, Hubert Laws
• Producer – James William Guercio
• Producer [Associate Producer For Poseidon Productions] – Alfred Brown
• Tenor Vocals [Tenore] – Eugene Becker, Raoul Poliakin
• Trombone [Tenor] – Buddy Morrow, Charles Small, Tony Studd
• Trumpet – Alan Dean, Joe Wilder, Mel Broiles, Teddy Weiss
• Trumpet [Bass] – Danny Repole
• Tuba – Bill Stanley, Don Butterfield
• Tuba [Tenor] – Bill Elton, Bill Stanley, John Swallow, Phil Giardina
• Viola – David Schwartz, Emanuel Vardi, Eugene Becker, Raoul Poliakin
• Violin – Aaron Rosand, Paul Gershman
Unipak Gatefold sleeve.
Includes download code.
Record Store Day limited release (2017) 
Made in EU
• Barcode: 0889854036911
• Matrix / Runout: 16-0738NL 88985403691 - A² - RE-1 MPO
• Matrix / Runout: 16-0738NL 88985403691 - B MPO
• Rights Society: BIEM / GEMA
• Label Code: LC 04456

CONDITION Details:

Jacket:

• The jacket is in MINT condition.

• The jacket has NO splits of any kind - it is solid and intact.
  

• It has NO drill holes or saw marks of any kind (see pics).
  

• There is NO writing on the front or back of the jacket.
  

• The cover has clean and sharp colors - see picture with this listing for more detail.
  

The LP (vinyl) itself:

• The LP is assumed to be in MINT condition as this item is BRAND NEW & NEVER PLAYED!

• This is the near mint copy you want for your collection - any super picky audiophile would be happy with this one!

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• Mint = Only used for sealed items.
• Near Mint = Virtually flawless in every way.
• Near Mint Minus = Item has some minor imperfections, some audible.
• Excellent = Item obviously played and enjoyed with some noise.
• Very Good Plus = Many more imperfections which are noticeable and obtrusive.

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The LP is an audiophile quality pressing (any collector of fine MFSL, half speeds, direct to discs, Japanese/UK pressings etc., can attest to the difference a quality pressing can make to an audio system).

Do not let this rarity slip by!