ARTISTS COME TOGETHER TO PAY TRIBUTE TO MOONDOG

On Saturday 30th May, a selection of musicians, including quite a few from Domino's roster, will be coming together to pay tribute to iconic American composer Moondog.
 
Moondog was the pseudonym of Louis Thomas Hardin (1916-1999), a blind American composer, musician, cosmologist and poet. He spent much of the 1950s and 1960s living on the streets of New York; the Viking costume that he adopted made him one of the most photographed and familiar urban figures of the period.  Moondog's prolific works have been sampled, cited and celebrated by generations of musicians, on both sides of the Atlantic.

This unique concert event features a number of guest artists who reflect the extraordinary range of the composer. The first half will feature the specially–assembled Moondog Choir featuring the idiosyncratic vocals of Lightspeed Champion, Pictish Trail and Adem; they will perform with London Saxophonic, joined by pianist Liam Noble, percussionist Paul Clarvis and others. Clinic will also perform two Moondog compositions in the Hall before their own set on the post-show Clubstage.  In the interval there will be a Clubstage DJ set from Caribou.
 
In the second half the Britten Sinfonia will perform under the baton of André de Ridder of the Viva Orchestra, along with Andi Toma (of Mouse On Mars), who collaborated with Moondog on the music for Elpmas while the composer was living in Germany. The Britten Sinfonia will perform some gems from Moondog’s classic CBS repertoire as well as previously unheard works.
 
Alongside Clinic on the post-show Clubstage will be a DJ set from Four Tet, in which DJ Kieran Hebden mixes sounds from all kinds of genres and crosses any musical borders he can find.
 
 
The full lineup is as follows:

THE VIKING OF 6TH AVE - THE MUSIC OF MOONDOG
ANDI THOMA (MOUSE ON MARS)
BRITTEN SINFONIA
LONDON SAXOPHONIC
CLINIC
GRUFF RHYS AND BUNF (SUPER FURRY ANIMALS)
LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION
ADEM
PICTISH TRAIL
MAX DE WARDNER AND TOM SKINNER
CARIBOU (DJ SET)
FOUR TET (DJ SET)


Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, Silk Street London EC2Y 8DS 020 7638 4141
Saturday 30 May 2009
7:30pm
Tickets £15 / 20 / 25
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020 7638 8891