Meredith Monk: Facing North

Meredith Monk: Facing North

Meredith Monk: Facing North
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Composer: Meredith Monk
Performer: Meredith Monk
Performer: Robert Een
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2000-02-01
Music Label: Ecm Import
Soundtracks:
  1. Facing North: Northern Lights 1
  2. Facing North: Chinook
  3. Facing North: Long Shadows 1
  4. Facing North: Keeping Warm
  5. Facing North: Northern Lights 2
  6. Facing North: Chinook Whispers
  7. Facing North: Arctic Bar
  8. Facing North: Hocket
  9. Facing North: Long Shadows 2
  10. Vessel: An Opera Epic: Epic
  11. Vessel: An Opera Epic: Fire Dance
  12. Vessel: An Opera Epic: Little Epiphany - Sybil Song
  13. Vessel: An Opera Epic: Mill
  14. Recent Ruins: Boat Song

Music reviews of Meredith Monk: Facing North

Music Review: Monk the Magician
Rating: 5 Stars

This album by Meredith Monk and Robert Een is one of their finest conceptions. The miminal use of pitch pipe (and on tracks of the second piece, piano and organ) coupled with their inventive vocalizations captures the cold and barren arctic, its icepack itself a minimal environment, and the sounds of breaking ice and the play of wind. Indeed, the spirit is not far from the joiks and atmospheric music of the Sami people of arctic Scandinavia. "Facing North" is in essence a clever tone poem that grew out of Monk's preparation of her opera Atlas. It includes humor in the fun tracks of "Keeping Warm" (the stomping in place to keep warm and Inuit-styled breath games) and "Arctic Bar" (images of a rustic wooden shack of whisky and boisterous patrons), whose rhythm and vocalise was adapted into a recent TV advertisement. The second composition, Vessel has undergone major reductions from its initial large scale, ad hoc experimental performances. Inspired by the saga of Joan d'Arc, the pastiche maintains its epic storytelling. The last section, "Boat Song" is taken from Recent Ruins and has the theme of archeology and origins of human behavior. We can feel the slow pulls of the oar. Monk is a conjurer, whose simple tunes and wild vocalise take us to familiar places of land and of the heart.
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