Louis Hardin, alias Moondog, was certainly one of the most brilliant American composer of the 20th century and yet one of the most ignored, even still today. Percussionnist strongly influenced by his meetings with Indian traditions of his native Kansas, growing up with a missionary father, he had an accident which turned him a blind man at the age of 16. Moondog went to meet the population of the streets of New York in the 40-50’s, where he played to make a living. He there met Allen Ginsberg, Charlie Parker, Leonard Bernstein, but always had the will to create a music of his own, of an almost childish simplicity on the first spot but of a great rhythmic complexity, ritual and secular at the same time, symphonic and intimist, mixing poetry, street sounds and percussion instruments of his own creation.
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