Moondog - The Viking Of Sixth Avenue Available On:2LP manning the musical saw

manning the musical saw

with access to the original tapes

the sense that something has cratered and someone has walked away

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Moondog - The Viking Of Sixth Avenue Available On:2LP manning the musical sawMoondog learned rhythm from American Indians and counterpoint from J. S. Bach. Many of his recordings feature instruments he built himself: trimba, yukh, tuji, oo. Sometimes you can hear in the background the streets of New York, where Moondog often slept rough (even though blind, since an accident when he was 15). Sometime in the 1950s, fed up with being mistaken on the street for Christ his regular busking spot was uptown on Sixth Moondog put on a