Book of Days (Meredith Monk album)

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Book of Days
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Studio album by
Meredith Monk
Released1990
RecordedJune 1989 (1989-06) at Clinton Studios, New York City
Genre Minimalism
Length48:35
Label ECM New Series
Producer Manfred Eicher
Meredith Monk chronology
Do You Be
(1987)		Book of Days
(1990)		 Facing North
(1992)
Professional ratings
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Book of Days is the seventh album by Meredith Monk, released in 1990 through ECM New Series.

Meredith Monk American musician

Meredith Jane Monk is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. Since the 1960s, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recording extensively for ECM Records. In 1991, Monk composed an opera called Atlas with the Houston Opera.

ECM Records German independent record label

ECM is an independent record label founded by Karl Egger, Manfred Eicher and Manfred Scheffner in Munich in 1969. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a variety of recordings, and ECM's artists often refuse to acknowledge boundaries between genres. ECM's motto is "the Most Beautiful Sound Next to Silence", according to a 1971 review of ECM releases in Coda, a Canadian jazz magazine.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Meredith Monk, except "Dusk" by Wayne Hankin.

Wayne Hankin is an American musician, conductor and composer. He is known for his performance in early music, theater and creation of musical compositions for unusual instruments.

No.TitleLength
1."Early Morning Melody"1:28
2."Travellers 1, 2, 3"2:31
3."Dawn"3:18
4."Travellers 4/Churchyard Entertainment"6:34
5."Afternoon Melodies"4:46
6."Fields/Clouds"2:21
7."Dusk"2:31
8."Eva's Song"0:48
9."Evening"2:51
10."Travellers 5"1:55
11."Jewish Storyteller/Dance/Dream"4:54
12."Plague"3:10
13."Madwoman's Vision"7:40
14."Cave Song"3:48

Personnel

Musicians
Singing act of producing musical sounds with the voice

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, gazal and popular music styles such as pop, rock, electronic dance music and filmi.

Robert Een is an American composer, cellist, and vocalist.

Cello musical instrument

The cello ( CHEL-oh; plural cellos or celli) or violoncello ( VY-ə-lən-CHEL-oh; Italian pronunciation: [vjolonˈtʃɛllo]) is a string instrument. It is played by bowing or plucking its four strings, which are usually tuned in perfect fifths an octave lower than the viola: from low to high, C2, G2, D3 and A3. It is the bass member of the violin family, which also includes the violin, viola and the double bass, which doubles the bass line an octave lower than the cello in much of the orchestral repertoire. After the double bass, it is the second-largest and second lowest (in pitch) bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. The cello is used as a solo instrument, as well as in chamber music ensembles (e.g., string quartet), string orchestras, as a member of the string section of symphony orchestras, most modern Chinese orchestras, and some types of rock bands.

Production

Manfred Eicher is a German record producer and the founder of ECM Records.

Record producer individual who oversees and manages the recording of an artists music

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Sound recording and reproduction recording of sound and playing it back

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References

  1. ↑ Allender, Mark W.B. "Book of Days". Allmusic. Retrieved June 28, 2013.
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