Moondog Girl, by Noodle Shop

Moondog Girl

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1.	Leopold in Mali 06:17	buy track
2.	Old World Kraftsmanship 04:57	buy track
3.	Every Pregnant Woman's Worst Nightmare 08:32	buy track
4.	Moondog's Blues 03:29	buy track
5.	Distressed Passenger/Like Walkin' On your Nose 13:36	buy track
6.	I Wasn't Aware I Wasn't Awake/The Sonny Blount Side of the Street 09:40	buy track
7.	Neon Noodle 01:48	buy track

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Moondog and Moondog Girl
By John Kruth

Midtown Manhattan was a different world from the Village I’ve known since the late 60s. For me and my friends there were few reasons to venture north of Washington Square, or at most, 14th Street… unless we were headed to Manny’s Guitars on 48th Street, or Central Park for a lovely stroll through the foliage or occasional free concert, and then there was Carnegie Hall of course, where I saw Ravi Shankar and Ornette Coleman, whenever I could. Perhaps the oddest show I ever saw there was An Evening with Groucho Marx in May, 1972. Love the genius/Dadaist/comedian as I did, the sight of Moondog standing on the corner in full Viking regalia, after the show was second only to the first time, I witnessed Sun Ra’s Mothership. It was as if he’d suddenly appeared from another dimension and double-parked his galleon somewhere down the block on 57th Street. I stood listening, enthralled as the old man with a long white beard sang some nonsensical operatic ditty. I had no idea he wrote symphonies. I just assumed, like most people who briefly stopped to gawk and drop a few coins in his cup, that he was another street freak trying his best to scrounge up some lunch money in the most creative manner. Whenever I’d take a date up Central Park, I’d always walk past Carnegie Hall to see if Moondog was on the street. I found him down the block sporadically, holding court. As a teenager I was too shy to talk with him, but always dropped some coins into the blind visionary’s cup. I soon found his records, which were refreshingly original and brilliant. On September 8, 1999, the day of Louis Hardin (aka Moondog)’s passing, Elliott Sharp, Jonathan Segel, Turkish drummer Atilla Engin and I (jointly known as Noodle Shop) recorded an improvised album title Moondog Girl in his honor.

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released February 1, 2024

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John Kruth New York, New York

With 12 solo albums to date, multi-instrumentalist, John Kruth plays mandolin, banjo, guitar and sitar as well as flute and harmonica. The former leader of the NYC "other-world" music ensemble TriBeCaStan, Kruth has played with Ornette Coleman, Allen Ginsberg, Sam Shepherd, John Prine, Rick Danko and Violent Femmes, and worked with producers Joel Dorn and Hal Willner. ... more

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