028948573349

The Recordings

Meredith Monk

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Format: 13CD

Cat No: 4857334

Release Date:  11 November 2022

Label:  ECM New Series

Packaging Type:  Box Set

No of Units:  13

Barcode:  028948573349

Genres:  Classical  Contemporary Classical  

  • Description

    Meredith Monk - The Recordings, a 13-CD limited box set edition compiling all Meredith Monk ECM New Series recordings to date, is issued on the occasion of the composer and singer's 80th birthday. Meredith was the first singer to have a leader-date on ECM Records and has released her music with the label since Dolmen Music in 1981.

    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 Plus: many photographs (some previously unpublished), quotes from the press, archival documents, and more.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

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Gotham Lullaby
      • 2. Travelling
      • 3. The Tale
      • 4. Biography
      • 5. Overture And Men's Conclave/Wa-Ohs/Rain/Pine Tree Lullaby/Calls/Conclusion

      Disc 2

      • 1. Turtle Dreams (Waltz)
      • 2. View 1
      • 3. Engine Steps
      • 4. Ester's Song
      • 5. View 2

      Disc 3

      • 1. Scared Song
      • 2. I Don't Know
      • 3. Window In 7's
      • 4. Double Fiesta
      • 5. Do You Be
      • 6. Panda Chant I
      • 7. Memory Song
      • 8. Panda Chant II
      • 9. Quarry Lullaby
      • 10. Shadow Song
      • 11. Astronaut Anthem
      • 12. Wheel

      Disc 4

      • 1. Early Morning Melody
      • 2. Travellers 1, 2, 3
      • 3. Dawn
      • 4. Travellers 4/Curchyard Entertainment
      • 5. Afternoon Melodies
      • 6. Fields/Clouds
      • 7. Dusk
      • 8. Eva's Song
      • 9. Evening
      • 10. Travellers 5
      • 11. Jewish Storyteller/Dance/Dream
      • 12. Plague
      • 13. Madwoman's Vision
      • 14. Cave Song

      Disc 5

      • 1. Northern Lights 1
      • 2. Chinook
      • 3. Long Shadows 1
      • 4. Keeping Warm
      • 5. Northern Lights 2
      • 6. Chinook Whispers
      • 7. Arctic Bar
      • 8. Hocket
      • 9. Long Shadows 2
      • 10. Epic
      • 11. Fire Dance
      • 12. Little Epiphany/Sybil Song
      • 13. Mill
      • 14. Boat Song

      Disc 6

      • 1. Overture (Out of Body 1)
      • 2. Travel Dream Song
      • 3. Home Scene
      • 4. Future Quest (The Call)
      • 5. Rite of Passage A
      • 6. Choosing Companions
      • 7. Airport
      • 8. Night Travel
      • 9. Guides' Dance
      • 10. Agricultural Community

      Disc 7

      • 1. Loss Song
      • 2. Campfire/Hungry Ghost
      • 3. Father's Hope
      • 4. Ice Demons
      • 5. Explorer #5/Lesson/Explorers' Procession
      • 6. Lonely Spirit
      • 7. Forest Questions
      • 8. Desert Tango
      • 9. Treachery (Temptation)
      • 10. Possibility of Destruction
      • 11. Out of Body 2
      • 12. Other Worlds Revealed
      • 13. Explorers' Junctures
      • 14. Earth Seen From Above
      • 15. Rite of Passage B

      Disc 8

      • 1. Walking Song
      • 2. Lost Wind
      • 3. Hips Dance
      • 4. Cry #1
      • 5. New York Requiem
      • 6. Offering
      • 7. Boat Man
      • 8. Skip Song
      • 9. Old Lava
      • 10. Cry #2
      • 11. St. Petersburg Waltz
      • 12. Three Heavens and Hells
      • 13. Click Song #1
      • 14. Click Song #2

      Disc 9

      • 1. braid 1 and leaping song
      • 2. braid 2
      • 3. urban march (shadow)
      • 4. masks
      • 5. line 1
      • 6. doctor/patient
      • 7. line 2
      • 8. woman at the door
      • 9. line 3 and prisoner
      • 10. epilogue
      • 11. shaking
      • 12. liquid air
      • 13. urban march (light)
      • 14. core chant

      Disc 10

      • 1. last song
      • 2. maybe 1
      • 3. little breath
      • 4. liminal
      • 5. disequilibrium
      • 6. particular dance
      • 7. between song
      • 8. passage
      • 9. maybe 2
      • 10. skeleton lines
      • 11. slow dissolve
      • 12. totentanz
      • 13. sweep 1
      • 14. rocking
      • 15. sweep 2
      • 16. mieke's melody #5

      Disc 11

      • 1. clusters 1
      • 2. strand (gathering)
      • 3. winter variation
      • 4. cloud code
      • 5. shift
      • 6. mapping
      • 7. summer variation
      • 8. vow
      • 9. clusters 2
      • 10. falling
      • 11. burn
      • 12. strand (inner psalm)
      • 13. autumn variation
      • 14. ledge dance
      • 15. traces
      • 16. respite
      • 17. mapping continued
      • 18. clusters 3
      • 19. spring variation
      • 20. fathom
      • 21. ascent

      Disc 12

      • 1. Obsolete Objects
      • 2. Ellis Island
      • 3. Folkdance
      • 4. urban march (shadow)
      • 5. Tower
      • 6. Paris
      • 7. Railroad (Travel Song)
      • 8. Parlour Games
      • 9. St. Petersburg Waltz
      • 10. Window in 7's
      • 11. totentanz
      • 12. Phantom Waltz

      Disc 13

      • 1. Dark/Light 1
      • 2. High Realm
      • 3. Fractal Activity
      • 4. Environs 1
      • 5. Eon
      • 6. Duet with Shifting Ground
      • 7. Environs 2
      • 8. Pavement Steps
      • 9. Evolution
      • 10. Ritual Zone
      • 11. Water/Sky Rant
      • 12. Memory Zone
      • 13. Environs 3
      • 14. Harvest
      • 15. Dark/Light 2
      • 16. High Realm Reprise
      • 17. Fractal Mirror
      • 18. Ringing
      • 19. Spider Web Anthem