{"id":112580,"date":"2023-12-24T15:08:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T20:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/?post_type=records&p=112580"},"modified":"2023-12-24T15:08:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T20:08:42","slug":"pan-m-360-top-100-kronos-quartet-ghost-train-orchestra-the-music-of-moondog","status":"publish","type":"records","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/records\/pan-m-360-top-100-kronos-quartet-ghost-train-orchestra-the-music-of-moondog\/","title":{"rendered":"PAN M 360 \/ TOP 100 : Kronos Quartet\/Ghost Train Orchestra \u2013 The Music of Moondog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In my top 5 of the most influential 20th-century scholarly composers from \u201cunconventional\u201d backgrounds and genres, there\u2019s certainly Ennio Morricone, Frank Zappa and Moodog (aka Louis Hardin, or vice-versa). While the first two have achieved a degree of recognition from the contemporary establishment, Moondog has yet to be formalized as such. And yet, this creator who was also blind, who wrote vertical scores on cardboard sheets in Braille, and who was incredibly prolific (over 400 works), adored by a whole underground musical fauna, still remains scorned by the academic world. A huge mistake. Listen to this joyful Songs and Symphoniques \u2013 The Music of Moondog by the Ghost Train Orchestra assisted by the very \u201clegit\u201d Kronos Quartet and you\u2019ll be won over. Unless you\u2019re irredeemably purist and uptight, you\u2019ll discover and accept the fact that Moondog is such an unclassifiable composer, so vibrant with luminous good humour, so simple and naive in his discreet and appealing sophistication, so fiercely authentic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n