Dolmen Music
by Meredith Monk
- Type: Album
- Released: June 1981
- Label: ECM New Series
- Country: United States
- Length: 46:43
- Community rating: 4.04/5 from 5 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Vocal innovator Meredith Monk delivered a truly breathtaking, deeply avant-garde exploration of extended vocal techniques on 'Dolmen Music'. Accompanied primarily by sparse piano and cello, the ensemble utilizes rhythmic chanting, guttural shrieks, and incredibly hypnotic, wordless harmonies to construct a profoundly surreal, beautifully anxious milestone of modern classical minimalism.
Genres
Descriptors: avant-garde, choral, repetitive, atmospheric, vocal, a-cappella, ritualistic, ensemble
Tracklist
Credits
- Meredith Monk - primary artist, piano, voice, composed by
- Barbara Wojirsch - design
- Martin Balk - engineer
- Martin Wieland - engineer
- Ping Chong - illustration [drawing]
- Collin Walcott - percussion, violin, producer
- Sarah Van Ouwerkerk - photography by [cover photo]
- Nathaniel Tileston - photography by [liner photo]
- Steve Lockwood - piano
- Manfred Eicher - producer
- Andrea Goodman - voice
- Monica Solem - voice
- Paul Langland - voice
- Robert Een - voice, cello
- Julius Eastman - voice, percussion