SOUNDS OF MY CITY Tony Schwartz MOONDOG FOLKWAYS 1962 10" LP

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Artist: Tony Schwartz
Title: Sounds of My City
Record Label: Folkways Records
Record Condition: NM- 
Cover Condition: VG+ (solid seams with just a little bit of aging on the front)
The stories, music and sounds of the people of New York. label & cat. no.: ~ Folkways FC 7341 ~ pressed in: USA ~ date: 1962 ~ format: 10" 33rpm. Includes original booklet. Scarce album of sound collages and ambient atmospheres recorded and narrated by the legendary sound archivist Tony Schwartz in 1956 in New York City, with street musicians, conversations, restaurants, alleyways, construction machinery, churches, synagogues, etc. One segment showcases the playing of a "blind street musician using instruments of his own invention" who often performed near Schwartz' home, none other than Moondog - one of the earliest recordings of the legendary modern classical/jazz outsider! This fascinating lp documents Schwartz' investigations into his sonic neighborhood, making for an excellent source of unique sound effects for producers/DJs/turntablists as well as an interesting artifact for collectors of NYC historical ephemera and the obscure reaches of the Moondog discography. Includes 8 page insert. Tracks are: City Street Sounds; Sounds Outside My House; People Sing, Dance, Pray, Talk; Children Play, Sing. New York-based field recordist, engineer, and sound designer Tony Schwartz released several documentary albums for Folkways and Columbia, recorded some of the earliest Moondog sessions, and produced radio shows demonstrating an appreciation of sound and visionary understanding of electronic media that endeared him to Marshall McLuhan, Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, and Bill Moyers and placed him in the pantheon of 20th century aural innovators and magnetic tape pioneers alongside composers like John Cage, Pierre Schaeffer, Vladimir Ussachevsky, and Jim Fassett. He also published books and produced television commercials mostly of a public service or non-profit nature, including the famous Daisy Girl political ad for Lyndon Johnson and an anti-smoking ad credited with convincing the tobacco industry to halt television advertising. Moondog was a composer and NYC street musician influenced by jazz, native american, and medieval music, as well as by his friendships with Charlie Parker, Benny Goodman, Artur Rodzinski, Leonard Bernstein, Arturo Toscanini, Dmitri Mitropolous, George Szell, Martha Graham, and Duke Ellington. This field recording/sound effects record is the kind of unintentional turntablism/musique concrete tool used by artists like Pierre Schaeffer, Luc Ferrari, Jim Fassett, the Invisibl Skratch Piklz, DJ Shadow, The X-Ecutioners, Mix Master Mike, Q-Bert, Otomo Yoshihide, Christian Marclay, Martin Tetreault, Erik M, Negativland, Kid Koala, etc.......
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