Meredith Monk: On Behalf of Nature (CD)
For five decades, vocalist-composer Meredith Monk has explored what she calls primordial
utterance, or non-verbal vocal sounds that lay beneath and beyond language, expressing that for
which we have no words. This exploration has led her to create music that The New Yorker
describes as "simultaneously visceral and ethereal, raw and rapt, an art that sings, dances and
meditates on timeless forces."
With her latest, multivalent ECM New Series album, Monk aimed to address ecology and climate change, she says: "Believing that music speaks more directly than words, I worked to make a piece with a fluid, perceptual field that could expand awareness of what we are in danger of losing. On Behalf of Nature is a meditation on our intimate connection to nature, its inner structures, the fragility of its ecology and our interdependence."
With her latest, multivalent ECM New Series album, Monk aimed to address ecology and climate change, she says: "Believing that music speaks more directly than words, I worked to make a piece with a fluid, perceptual field that could expand awareness of what we are in danger of losing. On Behalf of Nature is a meditation on our intimate connection to nature, its inner structures, the fragility of its ecology and our interdependence."
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Performer: Sidney Chen, Ellen Fisher, Katie Geissinger, Bruce Rameker, Allison Sniffin, et al.
Composer: Meredith Monk
Format: Audio CD
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Number of Discs: 1
Label: ECM
Track Listing
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
Composer: Meredith Monk
Format: Audio CD
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Number of Discs: 1
Label: ECM
Track Listing
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
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