Dolmen Music

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Released 1981 Dolmen Music(1981) Turtle Dreams(1983) Release date 1981		Length 46:20 Artist Meredith Monk Label ECM Records

Recorded March 1980 and January 1981 Genre Contemporary classical music Producers Collin Walcott, Manfred Eicher Similar Meredith Monk albums, Other albums

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Dolmen Music is an album by American composer and vocalist Meredith Monk recorded in 1980-81 and released on the ECM New Series label.

Hip hop artist DJ Shadow sampled "Dolmen Music" on the track "Midnight in a Perfect World" from the Endtroducing..... album in 1995.

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Track listing

All compositions by Meredith Monk

"Gotham Lullaby" - 4:15
"Travelling" - 6:15
"The Tale" - 2:47
"Biography" - 9:24
"Dolmen Music: Overture and Men's Conclave/Wa-ohs/Rain/Pine Tree Lullaby/Calls/Conclusion" - 23:39

Recorded at Hometown Studios in New York City in March 1980 (track 5), and at Tonstudio Bauer in Ludwigsburg, West Germany in January 1981 (tracks 1-4)

Personnel

Meredith Monk — voice, piano

Collin Walcott — percussion, violin (tracks 1-4)

Steve Lockwood — piano (track 3)

Andrea Goodman — voice (track 5)

Monika Solem — voice (track 5)

Paul Langland — voice (track 5)

Robert Een — voice, cello (track 5)

Julius Eastman — percussion, voice (track 5)

Songs

1Gotham Lullaby4:19
2Travelling6:18
3The Tale2:51

References

Dolmen Music Wikipedia

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