The music is never a slave to any one fixed agenda and much of the material here sounds as if its gathered from some undiscovered culture - it's all-but impossible to compare this with anything else from the era, but when the longer-form pieces arrive they augment the more primal, outsider aesthetics with visceral, jazzy arrangements.
'Up Broadway' is an urgent and thorny construction combining the rhythmic complexity found elsewhere with aggressive horns, while 'In A Doorway' lets a little of the outside world into its recording, embracing the street sounds that so influenced Moondog's early works and intermingling them with instrumentation. It's a curious combination of musical improvisation and concrete sound which, once again, you simply would not associate with this era.
Up Broadway Perpetual Motion
Perpetual Motion
Gloving It
Improvisation
Ray Malone Softshoe
Two Quotations in Dialogue
5/8 in Two Shades
Moondog's Theme
9In a Doorway
Duet
Trimbas in Quarters
Wildwood
Trimbas in Eighths
Organ Rounds