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March 6, 2020

Influence And Style Traces: Moondog’s “Pacific Ocean (Rain Forest) (no date) and Steve Reich’s “Nagoya Marimbas” (1994)

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March 19, 2015

Outsider Music II: Notes On Moondog’s “A New Sound For An Old Instrument”

“I’m into swing. I get that from the American Indians like the Sioux, the Arapahoe and the Apache. They have this drum-beat, heart-beat. Bom, Bom, Bom…I got that influence when I was six years old in Wyoming. My father took us to an Arapahoe Indian reservation. The chief let me sit on his lap and Continue reading

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Thomas Brett is a musician and writer who holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from New York University. He is the author of Principles of Electronic Music Production and The Creative Electronic Music Producer, a book described by Sound On Sound magazine as “a deep philosophical analysis of the various creative inspirations, ideas and processes involved in producing electronic music.” His essays have appeared in the journals Popular Music and Popular Music and Society, as well as edited collections by Routledge, Oxford, and Cambridge University presses. Thomas has played percussion on Broadway since 1997 and writes about music at brettworks.com.

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Influence And Style Traces: Moondog’s “Pacific Ocean (Rain Forest) (no date) and Steve Reich’s “Nagoya Marimbas” (1994)

Outsider Music II: Notes On Moondog’s “A New Sound For An Old Instrument”