Our Lady of Late

by Meredith Monk

Our Lady of Late cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1973
  • Label: Minona
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 42:52
  • Community rating: 3.06/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A profound and deeply hypnotic piece of the 1970s New York avant-garde, the composer's second album relies solely on her extraordinary extended vocal techniques accompanied by the sustained drone of rubbed wine glasses. The stark, incredibly meditative recording explores extreme microtonal shifts and mesmerizing repetition, creating a profoundly unsettling, highly ritualistic atmosphere. It solidified her status as a revolutionary pioneer of minimalist vocal composition.

Genres

Descriptors: repetitive, minimalistic, avant-garde

Tracklist

  1. Prologue (2:24)
  2. Unison (4:34)
  3. Knee (1:23)
  4. Hey Rhythm (2:40)
  5. Cow Song (2:17)
  6. Sigh (2:32)
  7. Morning (1:33)
  8. Slide (2:59)
  9. Waltz (1:32)
  10. Prophecy (3:09)
  11. Dumb (2:19)
  12. Conversation (2:54)
  13. Low Ring (3:04)
  14. High Ring (1:46)
  15. Free (2:29)
  16. Edge (1:31)
  17. Scale Down (2:51)
  18. Epilogue (0:55)

Credits

  • Meredith Monk - primary artist, voice, synthesizer [gms]
  • William Dunas - other [instrumentation / title]
  • Heiner Stadler - supervised by

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