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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

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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.

Contents

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Track listing

All compositions by Meredith Monk
  1. "Gotham Lullaby" - 4:15
  2. "Travelling" - 6:15
  3. "The Tale" - 2:47
  4. "Biography" - 9:24
  5. "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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