MEREDITH MONK : The Recordings

Tracklist
I Dolmen Music
1-1 Gotham Lullaby (1975) 4:14
1-2 Travelling (1973) 6:16
1-3 The Tale (1973) 2:47
1-4 Biography (1972) 9:26
- Dolmen Music (1979) (23:39)
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
II Turtle Dreams
2-1 Turtle Dreams (Waltz) 17:50
2-2 View 1 10:14
2-3 Engine Steps 2:00
2-4 Easter`s Song 1:13
2-5 View 2 6:02
III 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 5:21
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
IV 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 Curchyard 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
V Facing North
- Facing North (1990)
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
VI 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
VII Volcano Songs
- Volcano Songs: Duets (1993)
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
VIII 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
IX 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
X 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
XI 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
XIII 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

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.