Moondog - The Viking Of Sixth Avenue CD xx2023 “When JPD asked me to

“When JPD asked me to consider making a video for Thee Oh Sees with the sole stipulation that he didn’t want to do anything fake-y to playback

Recorded live at Total Refreshment Centre 18 & 19 October 2017 (CHICAGOxLONDON)

and thoughts jotted down in notebooks

pedal steel

pulsating polyrhythms to sparse

Moondog - The Viking Of Sixth Avenue CD xx2023 “When JPD asked me toMoondog 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