Key
by Meredith Monk
- Type: Album
- Released: 1978
- Label: Lovely Music
- Country: United States
- Community rating: 3.9/5 from 4 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Initially composed in the early seventies and finally captured to tape here, 'Key' introduces Monk's groundbreaking extended vocal techniques to a recorded medium. The stark, repetitive vocalizations heavily bypass language in favor of primal, abstract emotional expression.
Genres
Descriptors: minimalistic, avant-garde, experimental, vocal, minimal, long-form, nonlexical-vocables, repetitive, ritualistic
Tracklist
Credits
- Meredith Monk - primary artist, composed by, voice [travelling], jew's harp, organ [electric]
- Daniel Ira Sverdlik - voice [companion]
- Dick Higgins - voice [companion]
- Lanny Harrison - voice [vision]
- Mark Monstermaker - voice [vision]