Moondog through the 20th century

Passionate about the personality of Louis Thomas Hardin, alias Moondog, Amaury Cornut has been working since 2009 to promote this unique composer. After creating the website moondog.fr , organizing tribute concerts across France and founding the Minisym ensemble to perform Moondog's music on stage, Amaury published in March 2014 the French biography dedicated to the Viking of 6th Avenue (ed. Le Mot et le Reste).

François Mardirossian chose to dedicate his first album to Moondog, revealing a particular taste for originality and adventure, which can be found in the numerous recitals he has given on stage in France and abroad. Throughout this conference-concert and with the help of previously unseen photos and rare sound archives, they reveal the links that exist between this little-known artist and leading figures in 20th-century music: from Steve Reich to Elvis Costello, including Janis Joplin, Leonard Bernstein and numerous jazz musicians.