Moog Indigo
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Moog Indigo is the eighth solo album by electronic music
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey
Jean-Jacques Perrey
Jean-Jacques Perrey is a French electronic music producer and was an early pioneer in the genre. He is best known within the sphere of popular music as a member of the influential electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley, and for his unusually light-hearted style of music.-Biography:Perrey was...

. It was released in 1970 on Vanguard Records
Vanguard Records
Vanguard Records is a record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. It started as a classical label, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal folk and blues artists from the 1960s; the Bach Guild was a subsidiary...

, an independent label. The ninth song, a cover of Beethoven's Turkish March
Turkish March (Beethoven)
The Turkish March is a well-known classical march theme by Ludwig van Beethoven. It was written in the Turkish style popular in music of the time....

 called "The Elephant Never Forgets", was used as the theme song for El Chavo del Ocho.

Contrary to what some might expect, the title track bears no resemblance to the jazz standard
Jazz standard
Jazz standards are musical compositions which are an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians, in that they are widely known, performed, and recorded by jazz musicians, and widely known by listeners. There is no definitive list of jazz standards, and the list of songs deemed to be...

 Mood Indigo
Mood Indigo
"Mood Indigo" is a jazz composition and song, with music by Duke Ellington and Barney Bigard with lyrics by Irving Mills.-Disputed authorship:In a 1987 interview, Mitchell Parish claimed to have written the lyrics:...

; in any case, the intended pun
Pun
The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use and abuse of homophonic,...

 wouldn't work as Moog rhymes with "vogue".

Track listing

  1. "Soul City"
  2. "E.V.A."
  3. "The Rose and the Cross"
  4. "Cat in the Night"
  5. "Flight of the Bumblebee
    Flight of the Bumblebee
    "Flight of the Bumblebee" is an orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899–1900. The piece closes Act III, Tableau 1, during which the magic Swan-Bird changes Prince Gvidon Saltanovich into an insect so that he can fly away to...

     (Harry Breuer, Gary Carol, Jean-Jacques Perrey
    Jean-Jacques Perrey
    Jean-Jacques Perrey is a French electronic music producer and was an early pioneer in the genre. He is best known within the sphere of popular music as a member of the influential electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley, and for his unusually light-hearted style of music.-Biography:Perrey was...

    )"
  6. "Moog Indigo"
  7. "Gossipo Perpetuo"
  8. "Country Rock Polka"
  9. "The Elephant Never Forgets"
  10. "18th Century Puppet"
  11. "Hello Dolly"
  12. "Passport to the Future"
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