MEREDITH MONK – The Recordings – CD13 box limited – ECM2750

Disc 1: Dolmen Music (Meredith Monk, 1981):
1 / Gotham Lullaby / 4:14
2 / Travelling / 6:15
3 / The Tale / 2:47
4 / Biography / 9:26
5 / Dolmen Music: Overture And Men’s Conclave / Wa-Ohs / Rain / Pine Tree Lullaby / Calls / Conclusion / 23:39

Disc 2: Turtle Dreams (Meredith Monk, 1983):
1 / Turtle Dreams (Waltz) / 17:50
2 / View 1 / 10:14
3 / Engine Steps / 2:00
4 / Ester’s Song / 1:13
5 / View 2 / 6:02

Disc 3: Do You Be (Meredith Monk, 1987):
1 / Scared Song / 6:04
2 / I Don’t Know / 3:31
3 / Window In 7’s / 2:12
4 / Double Fiesta / 5:21
5 / Do You Be / 4:02
6 / Panda Chant I / 1:56
7 / Memory Song / 6:40
8 / Panda Chant II / 1:35
9 / Quarry Lullaby / 2:00
10 / Shadow Song / 1:57
11 / Astronaut Anthem / 4:56
12 / Wheel / 3:40

Disc 4: Book Of Days (Meredith Monk, 1990):
1 / Early Morning Melody / 1:28
2 / Travellers 1, 2, 3 / 2:31
3 / Dawn / 3:18
4 / Travellers 4/Curchyard Entertainment / 6:34
5 / Afternoon Melodies) / 4:46
6 / Fields/Clouds) / 2:21
7 / Dusk / 2:31
8 / Eva’s Song / 0:48
9 / Evening / 2:51
10 / Travellers 5 / 1:55
11 / Jewish Storyteller/Dance/Dream / 4:54
12 / Plague / 3:10
13 / Madwoman’s Vision / 7:40
14 / Cave Song / 3:48

Disc 5: Facing North (Meredith Monk w/ Robert Een, 1992):
Facing North:
1 / Northern Lights 1 / 1:58
2 / Chinook / 4:45
3 / Long Shadows 1 / 2:24
4 / Keeping Warm / 4:13
5 / Northern Lights 2 / 2:58
6 / Chinook Whispers / 0:32
7 / Arctic Bar / 4:34
8 / Hocket / 4:21
9 / Long Shadows 2 / 5:39
Vessel: an opera epic:
10 / Epic / 9:25
11 / Fire Dance / 1:58
12 / Little Epiphany/Sybil Song / 4:23
13 / Mill / 3:01
Recent Ruins:
14 / Boat Song / 4:22

Disc 6: Atlas – An Opera In Three Parts (Meredith Monk, 1993):
Part I – Personal Climate:
1 / Overture (Out of Body 1) / 3:07
2 / Travel Dream Song / 5:07
3 / Home Scene / 2:38
4 / Future Quest (The Call) / 11:15
5 / Rite of Passage A / 0:57
6 / Choosing Companions / 7:44
7 / Airport / 9:19
Part II (1) – Night Travel:
8 / Night Travel / 3:14
9 / Guides’ Dance / 1:51
10 / Agricultural Community / 14:36

Disc 7: Atlas – An Opera In Three Parts (Meredith Monk, 1993):
Part II (2) – Night Travel:
1 / Loss Song / 4:14
2 / Campfire/Hungry Ghost / 7:43
3 / Father’s Hope / 1:13
4 / Ice Demons / 6:20
5 / Explorer #5/Lesson/Explorers’ Procession / 6:04
6 / Lonely Spirit / 3:33
7 / Forest Questions / 10:19
8 / Desert Tango / 7:52
9 / Treachery (Temptation) / 2:11
10 / Possibility of Destruction / 2:46
Part III – Invisible Light:
11 / Out of Body 2 / 2:58
12 / Other Worlds Revealed / 1:28
13 / Explorers’ Junctures / 2:42
14 / Earth Seen From Above / 7:34
15 / Rite of Passage B / 1:42

Disc 8: Volcano Songs (Meredith Monk, 1997):
Volcano Songs: Duets:
1 / Walking Song / 2:58
2 / Lost Wind / 3:12
3 / Hips Dance / 1:58
4 / Cry #1 / 2:38
New York Requiem:
5 / New York Requiem / 10:57
Volcano Songs: Solos:
6 / Offering / 2:36
7 / Boat Man / 2:11
8 / Skip Song / 1:36
9 / Old Lava / 2:42
10 / Cry #2 / 2:41
St. Petersburg Waltz:
11 / St. Petersburg Waltz / 7:50
Three Heavens And Hells:
12 / Three Heavens and Hells / 21:11
From Light Songs:
13 / Click Song #1 / 1:58
14 / Click Song #2 / 3:44

Disc 9: Mercy (Meredith Monk, 2002):
1 / braid 1 and leaping song / 8:14
2 / braid 2 / 2:35
3 / urban march (shadow) / 3:10
4 / masks / 1:43
5 / line 1 / 1:14
6 / doctor/patient / 8:21
7 / line 2 / 1:01
8 / woman at the door / 5:55
9 / line 3 and prisoner / 5:23
10 / epilogue / 1:54
11 / shaking / 3:05
12 / liquid air / 3:53
13 / urban march (light) / 6:05
14 / core chant / 4:43

Disc 10: Impermanence (Meredith Monk, 2008):
1 / last song / 7:16
2 / maybe 1 / 2:03
3 / little breath / 1:43
4 / liminal / 10:56
5 / disequilibrium / 2:26
6 / particular dance / 4:57
7 / between song / 6:08
8 / passage / 1:55
9 / maybe 2 / 3:07
10 / skeleton lines / 4:19
11 / slow dissolve / 2:35
12 / totentanz / 3:59
13 / sweep 1 / 1:28
14 / rocking / 5:17
15 / sweep 2 / 1:24
16 / mieke’s melody #5 / 5:15

Disc 11: Songs Of Ascension (Meredith Monk, 2011)
1 / clusters 1 / 3:19
2 / strand (gathering) / 1:55
3 / winter variation / 1:51
4 / cloud code / 3:31
5 / shift / 1:51
6 / mapping / 2:07
7 / summer variation / 3:16
8 / vow / 3:12
9 / clusters 2 / 2:28
10 / falling / 2:54
11 / burn / 4:16
12 / strand (inner psalm) / 3:12
13 / autumn variation / 2:48
14 / ledge dance / 1:50
15 / traces / 1:20
16 / respite / 5:56
17 / mapping continued / 1:29
18 / clusters 3 / 2:09
19 / spring variation / 4:03
20 / fathom / 4:37
21 / ascent / 9:26

Disc 12: Piano Songs (Meredith Monk / Ursula Oppens & Bruce Brubaker, 2014)
1 / Obsolete Objects / 1:52
2 / Ellis Island / 2:59
3 / Folkdance / 4:00
4 / urban march (shadow) / 3:07
5 / Tower / 1:37
6 / Paris / 3:09
7 / Railroad (Travel Song) / 2:12
8 / Parlour Games / 7:31
9 / St. Petersburg Waltz / 7:03
10 / Window in 7’s / 2:46
11 / totentanz / 3:06
12 / Phantom Waltz / 7:14

Disc 13: On Behalf Of Nature (Meredith Monk, 2016)
1 / Dark/Light 1 / 4:27
2 / High Realm / 1:26
3 / Fractal Activity / 2:57
4 / Environs 1 / 1:51
5 / Eon / 2:56
6 / Duet with Shifting Ground / 5:22
7 / Environs 2 / 0:56
8 / Pavement Steps / 2:04
9 / Evolution / 4:40
10 / Ritual Zone / 4:08
11 / Water/Sky Rant / 5:48
12 / Memory Zone / 4:23
13 / Environs 3 / 0:55
14 / Harvest / 3:18
15 / Dark/Light 2 / 3:07
16 / High Realm Reprise / 1:01
17 / Fractal Mirror / 1:56
18 / Ringing / 3:29
19 / Spider Web Anthem / 6:07