CD 1
DOLMEN MUSIC
1 Gotham Lullaby 04:14
2 Travelling 06:15
3 The Tale 02:47
4 Biography 09:26
5 Overture And Men's Conclave / Wa-Ohs / Rain / Pine Tree Lullaby / Calls / Conclusion 23:39
CD 2
TURTLE DREAMS
1 Turtle Dreams (Waltz) 17:50
2 View 1 10:14
3 Engine Steps 02:00
4 Ester's Song 01:13
5 View 2 06:02
CD 3
DO YOU BE
1 Scared Song 06:04
2 I Don't Know 03:31
3 Window In 7's 02:12
4 Double Fiesta 05:21
5 Do You Be 04:02
6 Panda Chant I 01:56
7 Memory Song 06:40
8 Panda Chant II 01:35
9 Quarry Lullaby 02:00
10 Shadow Song 01:57
11 Astronaut Anthem 04:56
12 Wheel 03:40
CD 4
BOOK OF DAYS
1 Early Morning Melody 01:28
2 Travellers 1, 2, 3 02:31
3 Dawn 03:18
4 Travellers 4 / Curchyard Entertainment 06:34
5 Afternoon Melodies 04:46
6 Fields/Clouds 02:21
7 Dusk 02:31
8 Eva's Song00:48
9 Evening 02:51
10 Travellers 5 01:55
11 Jewish Storyteller/Dance/Dream 04:54
12 Plague 03:10
13 Madwoman's Vision 07:40
14 Cave Song 03:48
CD 5
FACING NORTH
1 Northern Lights 1 01:58
2 Chinook 04:45
3 Long Shadows 1 02:24
4 Keeping Warm 04:13
5 Northern Lights 2 02:58
6 Chinook Whispers 00:32
7 Arctic Bar 04:34
8 Hocket 04:21
9 Long Shadows 2 05:39
10 Epic 09:25
11 Fire Dance 01:58
12 Little Epiphany/Sybil Song 04:23
13 Mill 03:01
14 Boat Song 04:22
CD 6
ATLAS - AN OPERA IN THREE PARTS (1)
1 Overture (Out of Body 1) 03:07
2 Travel Dream Song 05:07
3 Home Scene 02:38
4 Future Quest (The Call) 11:15
5 Rite of Passage A 00:57
6 Choosing Companions 07:44
7 Airport 09:19
8 Night Travel 03:14
9 Guides' Dance 01:51
10 Agricultural Community 14:36
CD 7
ATLAS - AN OPERA IN THREE PARTS (2)
1 Loss Song 04:14
2 Campfire/Hungry Ghost 07:43
3 Father's Hope 01:13
4 Ice Demons 06:20
5 Explorer #5/Lesson/Explorers' Procession 06:04
6 Lonely Spirit 03:33
7 Forest Questions 10:19
8 Desert Tango 07:52
9 Treachery (Temptation) 02:11
10 Possibility of Destruction 02:46
11 Out of Body 2 02:58
12 Other Worlds Revealed 01:28
13 Explorers' Junctures 02:42
14 Earth Seen From Above 07:34
15 Rite of Passage B 01:42
CD 8
VOLCANO SONGS
1 Walking Song 02:58
2 Lost Wind0 3:12
3 Hips Dance 01:58
4 Cry #10 2:38
5 New York Requiem 10:57
6 Offering 02:36
7 Boat Man 02:11
8 Skip Song 01:36
9 Old Lava 02:42
10 Cry #20 2:41
11 St. Petersburg Waltz 07:50
12 Three Heavens and Hells 21:11
13 Click Song #1 01:58
14 Click Song #2 03:44
CD 9
MERCY
1 braid 1 and leaping song 08:14
2 braid 2 02:35
3 urban march (shadow) 03:10
4 masks 01:43
5 line 1 01:14
6 doctor / patient 08:21
7 line 2 01:01
8 woman at the door 05:55
9 line 3 and prisoner 05:23
10 epilogue 01:54
11 shaking 03:05
12 liquid air 03:53
13 urban march (light) 06:05
14 core chant 04:43
CD 10
IMPERMANENCE
1 last song 07:16
2 maybe 1 02:03
3 little breath 01:43
4 liminal 10:56
5 disequilibrium 02:26
6 particular dance 04:57
7 between song 06:08
8 passage 01:55
9 maybe 2 03:07
10 skeleton lines 04:19
11 slow dissolve 02:35
12 totentanz 03:59
13 sweep 1 01:28
14 rocking 05:17
15 sweep 2 01:24
16 mieke's melody #5 05:15
CD 11
SONGS OF ASCENSION
1 clusters 1 03:19
2 strand (gathering) 01:55
3 winter variation 01:51
4 cloud code 03:31
5 shift 01:51
6 mapping 02:07
7 summer variation 03:16
8 vow 03:12
9 clusters 2 02:28
10 falling 02:54
11 burn 04:16
12 strand (inner psalm) 03:12
13 autumn variation 02:48
14 ledge dance 01:50
15 traces 01:20
16 respite 05:56
17 mapping continued 01:29
18 clusters 3 02:09
19 spring variation 04:03
20 fathom 04:37
21 ascent 09:26
CD 12
PIANO SONGS
1 Obsolete Objects 01:52
2 Ellis Island 02:59
3 Folkdance 04:00
4 Urban march (shadow) 03:07
5 Tower 01:37
6 Paris 03:09
7 Railroad (Travel Song) 02:12
8 Parlour Games 07:31
9 St. Petersburg Waltz 07:03
10 Window in 7’s 02:46
11 Totentanz 03:06
12 Phantom Waltz 07:14
CD 13
ON BEHALF OF NATURE
1 Dark/Light 1 04:27
2 High Realm 01:26
3 Fractal Activity 02:57
4 Environs 1 01:51
5 Eon 02:56
6 Duet with Shifting Ground 05:22
7 Environs 2 00:56
8 Pavement Steps 02:04
9 Evolution 04:40
10 Ritual Zone 04:08
11 Water/Sky Rant 05:48
12 Memory Zone 04:23
13 Environs 3 00:55
14 Harvest 03:18
15 Dark/Lit 2 03:07
16 High Realm Reprise 01:01
17 Fractal Mirror 01:56
18 Ringing 03:29
19 Spider Web Anthem 06.07
Intrerprete
Merdith Monk Piano y voces más músicos participantes se detalla en cada CD.
“Monk ha mapeado un mundo que nunca existió en la historia de las artes. A la vez visceral y etérea, cruda y absorta, sus obras desvanecen las complejidades espurias de la vida urbana y revelan una especie de civilización subterránea, que canta, baila y medita sobre fuerzas eternas”.
Alex Ross, The New Yorker
Meredith Monk – The Recordings, una edición en caja limitada de 13 CD que compila todas las grabaciones de Meredith Monk ECM New Series hasta la fecha, se publica con motivo del 80 cumpleaños de lacompositora y cantante. Meredith fue la primera cantante en tener una voz líder en ECM Records y ha lanzado su música con el sello desde Dolmen Music en 1981.
Esta caja de hermoso diseño incorpora un libro de 300 páginas que repite todas las notas originales, así como nuevos textos y entrevistas. Además, el libro incluye un ensayo introductorio de Frank J. Oteri, “Los mundos de Meredith Monk”, un texto autobiográfico de Meredith titulado “El mensajero del alma” y un prefacio de Manfred Eicher. Además: muchas fotografías (algunas inéditas), citas de prensa, documentos de archivo y más.