Impermanence (Meredith Monk album)
Impermanence is the twelfth album by Meredith Monk, released on March 18, 2008 through ECM New Series.
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| Released | March 18, 2008 | |||
| Recorded | January 2007 at Avatar Studios, New York | |||
| Genre | Minimalism | |||
| Length | 65:06 | |||
| Label | ECM New Series | |||
| Producer | Manfred Eicher | |||
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Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Last Song" (for voices and piano) | Meredith Monk | 7:18 |
| 2. | "Maybe 1" (for 8 pianos) | Meredith Monk | 2:03 |
| 3. | "Little Breath" (for 4 voices, bass clarinet and elephant bells) | Meredith Monk | 1:44 |
| 4. | "Liminal" (for 4 voices and chamber ensemble) | Meredith Monk | 10:59 |
| 5. | "Disequilibrium" (for 6 voices and bicycle wheel) | Meredith Monk | 2:26 |
| 6. | "Particular Dance" (for 7 voices, double ocarina, anklung, Balinese flute, zaphoon, punji, piano and percussion) | Meredith Monk | 5:01 |
| 7. | "Between Song" (for 3 voices, clarinet, bass clarinet, piano, bells and vibraphone) | Meredith Monk | 6:10 |
| 8. | "Passage" (for 7 voices) | Meredith Monk | 1:59 |
| 9. | "Maybe 2" (for 6 voices, bass clarinet and bass drum) | Meredith Monk | 3:07 |
| 10. | "Skeleton Lines" (for voice and chamber ensemble) | Meredith Monk | 4:19 |
| 11. | "Slow Dissolve" (for chorus, violin, bass clarinet and glockenspiel) | Meredith Monk | 2:35 |
| 12. | "Totentanz" (for 2 voices and chamber ensemble) | Meredith Monk | 3:59 |
| 13. | "Sweep 1" (for paddle drums) | Bohdan Hilash, John Hollenbeck, Allison Sniffin | 1:28 |
| 14. | "Rocking" (for chorus, bass clarinet, marimba and vibraphone) | Meredith Monk | 5:17 |
| 15. | "Sweep 2" (for voice, ocean drum, Chinese temple bells, magnets and percussion) | Bohdan Hilash, John Hollenbeck, Allison Sniffin | 1:26 |
| 16. | "Mieke's Melody No. 5" (for chorus, piano and vibraphone) | Mieke van Hoek | 5:15 |
Personnel
- Musicians
- Theo Bleckmann – vocals
- Sasha Bogdanowitsch – vocals
- Ellen Fisher – piano, vocals
- Katie Geissinger – piano, vocals
- Ching Gonzalez – piano, vocals
- Bohdan Hilash – aulos, bamboo flute, bass clarinet, drums, double ocarina, piano, soprano saxophone, woodwind, zafoon
- John Hollenbeck – Angklung, glockenspiel, marimba, percussion, piano, vibraphone
- Silvie Jensen – vocals
- Meredith Monk – piano, vocals
- Allison Sniffin – piano, violin, vocals
- Production
- Manfred Eicher – production
- Sascha Kleis – design
- James A. Farber – engineering
- John Sanchez – photography
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