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Meredith Monk
The Recordings (13 CD Box)
FormatCDLabelECM RecordsGenreExperimental
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Restocked, reduced price * 13-CD limited edition box set with 300 page booklet * The Recordings, a box set edition compiling all Meredith Monk ECM New Series discs to date, is issued on the occasion of the composer and singer’s 80th birthday. With Dolmen Music in 1981 Meredith became the first singer to be the front person on an ECM recording.
Included here are the albums Dolmen Music, Turtle Dreams, Do You Be, Book of Days, Facing North, ATLAS, Volcano Songs, mercy, impermanence, Songs of Ascension, Piano Songs, and On Behalf of Nature. Each album is a revelation.
This beautifully designed box set incorporates a 300-page book reprising all original liner notes, as well as new texts and interviews. Additionally, the book includes an introductory essay by Frank J. Oteri, “The Worlds of Meredith Monk”, an autobiographical text by Meredith titled “The Soul’s Messenger” and a preface by Manfred Eicher. Plus: many photographs (some previously unpublished), quotes from the press, archival documents, and more.
“Monk has mapped a world that never quite existed in the history of the arts. At once visceral and ethereal, raw and rapt, her works banish the spurious complexities of urban life and reveal a kind of underground civilization, one that sings, dances, and meditates on timeless forces.”
Alex Ross, The New Yorker
Includes the following CDs:
I - Dolmen Music
II - Turle Dreams
III - Do You Be
IV - Book of Days
V - Facing North
VI - ATLAS
VII - Volcano Songs
VIII - mercy
IX - impermanence
X - Songs of Ascension
XI - Piano Songs
XII - On Behalf of Nature
Format
- Cardboard Slipcase including 12 4-panel digifiles - Also included is a 300-page book reprising all original liner notes, as well as new texts and interviews, an introductory essay by Frank J. Oteri, “The Worlds of Meredith Monk”, an autobiographical text by Meredith Monk titled “The Soul’s Messenger” and a preface by Manfred Eicher. Plus: many photographs (some previously unpublished), quotes from the press, archival documents, and more.
Release notes
- Cardboard Slipcase including 12 4-panel digifiles - Also included is a 300-page book reprising all original liner notes, as well as new texts and interviews, an introductory essay by Frank J. Oteri, “The Worlds of Meredith Monk”, an autobiographical text by Meredith Monk titled “The Soul’s Messenger” and a preface by Manfred Eicher. Plus: many photographs (some previously unpublished), quotes from the press, archival documents, and more. -Barcode etc. printed on the bottom of the Slipcase …
| Dolmen Music | |||
| 1-1 | Gotham Lullaby (1975) | 4:15 | |
| 1-2 | Travelling (1973) | 6:15 | |
| 1-3 | The Tale (1973) | 2:47 | |
| 1-4 | Biography (1972) | 9:24 | |
| Dolmen Music (1979) | |||
| 1-5a | Overture And Men's Conclave | ||
| 1-5b | Wa-Ohs | ||
| 1-5c | Rain | ||
| 1-5d | Pine Tree Lullaby | ||
| 1-5e | Calls | ||
| 1-5f | Conclusion | ||
| Turtle Dreams | |||
| 2-1 | Turtle Dreams (Waltz) | 17:50 | |
| 2-2 | View 1 | 10:14 | |
| 2-3 | Engine Steps | 2:00 | |
| 2-4 | Ester's Song | 1:13 | |
| 2-5 | View 2 | 6:02 | |
| Do You Be | |||
| 3-1 | Scared Song | 6:04 | |
| 3-2 | I Don't Know | 3:31 | |
| 3-3 | Window In 7's | 2:12 | |
| 3-4 | Double Fiesta | 5:12 | |
| 3-5 | Do You Be | 4:02 | |
| 3-6 | Panda Chant I | 1:56 | |
| 3-7 | Memory Song | 6:40 | |
| 3-8 | Panda Chant II | 1:35 | |
| 3-9 | Quarry Lullaby | 2:00 | |
| 3-10 | Shadow Song | 1:57 | |
| 3-11 | Astronaut Anthem | 4:56 | |
| 3-12 | Wheel | 3:40 | |
| Book Of Days | |||
| 4-1 | Early Morning Melody | 1:28 | |
| 4-2 | Travellers 1, 2, 3 | 2:31 | |
| 4-3 | Dawn | 3:18 | |
| 4-4 | Travellers 4 (Churchyard Entertainment) | 6:34 | |
| 4-5 | Afternoon Melodies | 4:46 | |
| 4-6 | Fields / Clouds | 2:21 | |
| 4-7 | Dusk | 2:31 | |
| 4-8 | Eva's Song | 0:48 | |
| 4-9 | Evening | 2:51 | |
| 4-10 | Travellers 5 | 1:55 | |
| 4-11 | Jewish Storyteller / Dance / Dream | 4:54 | |
| 4-12 | Plague | 3:10 | |
| 4-13 | Madwoman's Vision | 7:40 | |
| 4-14 | Cave Song | 3:48 | |
| Facing North | |||
| 5-1 | Northern Lights 1 | 1:58 | |
| 5-2 | Chinook | 4:45 | |
| 5-3 | Long Shadows 1 | 2:24 | |
| 5-4 | Keeping Warm | 4:13 | |
| 5-5 | Northern Lights 2 | 2:58 | |
| 5-6 | Chinook Whispers | 0:32 | |
| 5-7 | Arctic Bar | 4:34 | |
| 5-8 | Hocket | 4:21 | |
| 5-9 | Long Shadows 2 | 5:39 | |
| Vessel: An Opera Epic (1971) | |||
| 5-10 | Epic | 9:25 | |
| 5-11 | Fire Dance | 1:58 | |
| 5-12 | Little Epiphany / Sybil Song | 4:23 | |
| 5-13 | Mill | 3:01 | |
| Recent Ruins (1979) | |||
| 5-14 | Boat Song | 4:22 | |
| Atlas - An Opera In Three Parts | |||
| Part I: Personal Climate | |||
| 6-1 | Overture (Out Of Body 1) | 3:07 | |
| 6-2 | Travel Dream Song | 5:07 | |
| 6-3 | Home Scene | 2:38 | |
| 6-4 | Future Quest (The Call) | 11:15 | |
| 6-5 | Rite Of Passage A | 0:57 | |
| 6-6 | Choosing Companions | 7:44 | |
| 6-7 | Airport | 9:19 | |
| Part II: Night Travel | |||
| 6-8 | Night Travel | 3:14 | |
| 6-9 | Guide's Dance | 1:51 | |
| 6-10 | Agricultural Community | 14:36 | |
| 7-1 | Loss Song | 4:14 | |
| 7-2 | Campfire / Hungry Ghost | 7:43 | |
| 7-3 | Father's Hope | 1:13 | |
| 7-4 | Ice Demons | 6:20 | |
| 7-5 | Explorer #5 / Lesson / Explorer`s Procession | 6:04 | |
| 7-6 | Lonely Spirit | 3:33 | |
| 7-7 | Forst Questions | 10:19 | |
| 7-8 | Desert Tango | 7:52 | |
| 7-9 | Treachery (Temptation) | 2:11 | |
| 7-10 | Possibility Of Destruction | 2:46 | |
| Part III: Invisible Light | |||
| 7-11 | Out Of Body 2 | 2:58 | |
| 7-12 | Other Worlds Revealed | 1:28 | |
| 7-13 | Explorers Junctures | 2:42 | |
| 7-14 | Earth Seen From Above | 7:34 | |
| 7-15 | Rite Of Passage B | 1:42 | |
| Volcano Songs | |||
| 8-1 | Walking Song | 2:58 | |
| 8-2 | Lost Wind | 3:12 | |
| 8-3 | Hips Dance | 1:58 | |
| 8-4 | Cry #1 | 2:38 | |
| 8-5 | New York Requiem (1993) | 10:57 | |
| Volcano Songs: Solos (1994) | |||
| 8-6 | Offering | 2:36 | |
| 8-7 | Boat Man | 2:11 | |
| 8-8 | Skip Song | 1:36 | |
| 8-9 | Old Lava | 2:42 | |
| 8-10 | Cry #2 | 2:41 | |
| 8-11 | St. Petersburg Waltz (1993) | 7:50 | |
| 8-12 | Three Heavens And Hells (1992) | 21:11 | |
| From Light Songs (1988) | |||
| 8-13 | Click Song #1 | 1:58 | |
| 8-14 | Click Song #2 | 3:44 | |
| Mercy | |||
| 9-1 | Braid 1 And Leaping Song | 8:14 | |
| 9-2 | Braid 2 | 2:35 | |
| 9-3 | Urban March (Shadow) | 3:10 | |
| 9-4 | Masks | 1:43 | |
| 9-5 | Line1 | 1:14 | |
| 9-6 | Doctor / Patient | 8:21 | |
| 9-7 | Line 2 | 1:01 | |
| 9-8 | Woman At The Door | 5:55 | |
| 9-9 | Line 3 And Prisoner | 5:23 | |
| 9-10 | Epilouge | 1:54 | |
| 9-11 | Shaking | 3:05 | |
| 9-12 | Liquid Air | 3:53 | |
| 9-13 | Urban March (Light) | 6:05 | |
| 9-14 | Core Chant | 4:43 | |
| Impermanence | |||
| 10-1 | Last Song | 7:16 | |
| 10-2 | Maybe 1 | 2:03 | |
| 10-3 | Little Breath | 1:43 | |
| 10-4 | Liminal | 10:56 | |
| 10-5 | Disequilibrium | 2:26 | |
| 10-6 | Particular Dance | 4:57 | |
| 10-7 | Between Song | 6:08 | |
| 10-8 | Passage | 1:55 | |
| 10-9 | Maybe 2 | 3:07 | |
| 10-10 | Skeleton Lines | 4:19 | |
| 10-11 | Slow Dissolve | 2:35 | |
| 10-12 | Totentanz | 3:59 | |
| 10-13 | Sweep 1 | 1:28 | |
| 10-14 | Rocking | 5:17 | |
| 10-15 | Sweep 2 | 1:24 | |
| 10-16 | Mieke's Melody #5 | 5:15 | |
| Songs Of Ascension | |||
| 11-1 | Clusters 1 | 3:19 | |
| 11-2 | Strand (Gathering) | 1:55 | |
| 11-3 | Winter Variation | 1:51 | |
| 11-4 | Cloud Code | 3:31 | |
| 11-5 | Shift | 1:51 | |
| 11-6 | Mapping | 2:07 | |
| 11-7 | Summer Variation | 3:16 | |
| 11-8 | Vow | 3:12 | |
| 11-9 | Clusters 2 | 2:28 | |
| 11-10 | Falling | 2:54 | |
| 11-11 | Burn | 4:16 | |
| 11-12 | Strand (Inner Psalm) | 3:12 | |
| 11-13 | Autumn Variation | 2:48 | |
| 11-14 | Ledge Dance | 1:50 | |
| 11-15 | Traces | 1:20 | |
| 11-16 | Respite | 5:56 | |
| 11-17 | Mapping Continued | 1:29 | |
| 11-18 | Clusters 3 | 2:09 | |
| 11-19 | Spring Variation | 4:03 | |
| 11-20 | Fathom | 4:37 | |
| 11-21 | Ascent | 9:26 | |
| Piano Songs | |||
| 12-1 | Obsolete Objects | 1:52 | |
| 12-2 | Ellis Island | 2:52 | |
| 12-3 | Folkdance | 4:00 | |
| 12-4 | Urban March (Shadow) | 3:07 | |
| 12-5 | Tower | 1:37 | |
| 12-6 | Paris | 3:09 | |
| 12-7 | Railroad (Travel Song) | 2:12 | |
| 12-8 | Parlour Games | 7:31 | |
| 12-9 | St. Petersburg Waltz | 7:03 | |
| 12-10 | Window In 7's | 2:46 | |
| 12-11 | Totentanz | 3:06 | |
| 12-12 | Phantom Waltz | 7:14 | |
| On Behalf Of Nature | |||
| 13-1 | Dark / Light 1 | 4:27 | |
| 13-2 | High Realm | 1:26 | |
| 13-3 | Fractal Activity | 2:57 | |
| 13-4 | Environs 1 | 1:51 | |
| 13-5 | Eon | 2:56 | |
| 13-6 | Duet With Shifting Ground | 5:22 | |
| 13-7 | Environs 2 | 0:56 | |
| 13-8 | Pavement Steps | 2:04 | |
| 13-9 | Evolution | 4:40 | |
| 13-10 | Ritual Zone | 4:08 | |
| 13-11 | Water / Sky Rant | 5:48 | |
| 13-12 | Memory Zone | 4:23 | |
| 13-13 | Environs 3 | 0:55 | |
| 13-14 | Harvest | 3:18 | |
| 13-15 | Dark / Light 2 | 3:07 | |
| 13-16 | High Realm Reprise | 1:01 | |
| 13-17 | Fractal Mirror | 1:56 | |
| 13-18 | Ringing | 3:29 | |
| 13-19 | Spider Web Anthem | 6:07 | |
- Meredith Monk
- Composed By [All Compositions By], Organ, Synthesizer [Mini-Moog, Casio] (2-1 to 2-5), Recorded By (2-3), Voice, Keyboards [Keyboard] (4-1 to 4-14), Voice, Piano (1-1 to 1-5, 2-1 to 2-5), Voice, Synthesizer, Piano (3-1 to 3-12)
- Wayne Hankin
- Composed By [An Improvisation By] (4-7), Voice, Bagpipes [Grosser Bock], Hurdy Gurdy, Bass Recorder (4-1 to 4-14), Voice, Synthesizer [Casio], Bagpipes (3-1 to 3-12)
- Yoshio Yabara
- Costume Designer [Costumes], Design
- Barbara Wojirsch
- Design
- James Farber
- Engineer [Clinton Sounds] (3-1 to 3-12, 4-1 to 4-14)
- Martin Balk
- Engineer [Hometown Studios] (1-1 to 1-5)
- Jan Erik Kongshaug
- Engineer [Rainbow Studio]
- Howard Kaufman
- Engineer [Recording] (2-2)
- John Kilgore
- Engineer [Recording] (2-1)
- Phil Lee
- Engineer [Recording] (2-2)
- Thomas Lazarus
- Engineer [Recording] (2-1)
- Martin Wieland
- Engineer [Tonstudio Bauer] (1-1 to 1-5, 2-1 to 2-5, 3-1 to 3-12), Mixed By (3-1 to 3-12)
- Nurit Tilles
- Keyboards [Keyboard], Hammered Dulcimer, Piano (4-1 to 4-14), Piano, Synthesizer [Casio], Voice (3-1 to 3-12)
- Julius Eastman
- Organ (2-1 to 2-5), Voice, Percussion (1-1 to 1-5)
- Collin Walcott
- Organ, Didgeridoo (2-1 to 2-5), Percussion, Violin (1-1 to 1-5), Producer [Produced By] (1-1 to 1-5, 2-1 to 2-5)
- Todd's
- Other [Colour Xerox]
- Dominique Lasseur
- Photography By [Cover Photo]
- Sarah Van Ouwerkerk
- Photography By [Cover Photo], Photography By [Cover Photo]
- Edmund Niemann
- Piano (3-1 to 3-12)
- Steve Lockwood
- Piano (1-3)
- Manfred Eicher
- Producer [Produced By] (1-1 to 1-5, 2-1 to 2-5, 3-1 to 3-12, 4-1 to 4-14)
- Lee Townsend
- Supervised By (3-1 to 3-12)
- Andrea Goodman
- Voice (1-1 to 1-5, 2-1 to 2-5, 3-1 to 3-12, 4-1 to 4-14)
- Ching Gonzalez
- Voice (3-1 to 3-12, 4-1 to 4-14)
- Joan Barber
- Voice (4-1 to 4-14)
- Johanna Arnold
- Voice (3-1 to 3-12, 4-1 to 4-14)
- John Eppler
- Voice (3-1 to 3-12, 4-1 to 4-14)
- Monica Solem
- Voice (1-1 to 1-5)
- Nicky Paraiso
- Voice (3-1 to 3-12, 4-1 to 4-14)
- Robert Een
- Voice (2-1 to 2-5, 3-1 to 3-12), Voice, Cello (4-1 to 4-14), Voice, Violoncello (1-1 to 1-5)
- Timothy Sawyer
- Voice (4-1 to 4-14)
- Toby Newman
- Voice (4-1 to 4-14)
- Naaz Hosseini
- Voice, Violin (3-1 to 3-12, 4-1 to 4-14)
