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“Key encounters the composer at her raw beginnings - ambitious, challenging, and confrontational.”
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File under: Extended Voices
Meredith Monk
Key
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1995 release. Originally released in 1971. Key contains Meredith Monk's earliest compositions for voice. The songs that make up Key were composed and performed in a three year period between 1967 and 1970, when Monk collected them into this 45-minute "invisible theater" experience. Meredith Monk on the release: "In Key I wanted to create a constantly shifting ambience. Each song dealt with a different vocal character, landscape, technical concern or emotional quality. I was trying for a visceral, kinetic song form that had the abstract qualities of a painting or a dance. I knew that I didn't want to set music to a text; for me, the voice itself was a language which seemed to speak more eloquently than words. I chose certain phonemes for their particular sound qualities. In a sense, each song became a world in itself with its own timbre, texture and impulse." Personnel: Meredith Monk - voice, organ, jews harp; Daniel Ira Sverdlik, Dick Higgins, Collin Walcott, Lanny Harrison, Mark Monstermaker - voices.
Details
File under: Extended Voices
Cat. number: LCD 1051
Year: 1995
Format
All music written 1967-70. Recorded July 1970 - Jan. 1971 at Gary Weis' loft, Santa Monica, California; The Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, California; The House, New-York City; "Change" overdubbed ar the Farm, Los Angeles, California.
Originally released on LP in 1971 by Increase Records.
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Release notes
All music written 1967-70. Recorded July 1970 - Jan. 1971 at Gary Weis' loft, Santa Monica, California; The Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, California; The House, New-York City; "Change" overdubbed ar the Farm, Los Angeles, California. Originally released on LP in 1971 by Increase Records. .
Tracklist
| 1 | Porch | 2:16 | |
| 2 | Understreet | 4:19 | |
| 3 | What Does It Mean? | 3:58 | |
| 4 | Vision | 1:16 | |
| 5 | Fat Stream | 7:28 | |
| 6 | Vision | 2:03 | |
| 7 | Do You Be? | 4:12 | |
| 8 | Vision | 0:36 | |
| 9 | Change | 3:45 | |
| 10 | Dungeon | 6:49 |
Credits
- By Design
- Art Direction
- Paul Gruwell
- Art Direction
- Meredith Monk
- Composed By, Voice [Travelling], Jew's Harp, Organ [Electric]
- Ariel Peeri
- Design
- Allan Tucker
- Edited By, Remastered By
- Daniel Nagrin
- Engineer
- Peter Pilafian
- Engineer
- Tom Clack
- Engineer
- John Horton
- Engineer, Mixed By
- Ron Jacobs
- Executive-Producer
- Collin Walcott
- Percussion [Mrdingam], Producer [Production Supervisor], Voice [Companion]
- Peter Moore
- Photography By [Cover]
- Gary Harris
- Technician [Technical Consultant]
- Daniel Ira Sverdlik
- Voice [Companion]
- Dick Higgins
- Voice [Companion]
- Lanny Harrison
- Voice [Vision Monologues]
- Mark Berger
- Voice [Vision Monologues]
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