4766391 M Monk: Impermanence - Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble

4766391 M Monk: Impermanence - Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble

Label - ECM

Cat. No. - 4766391

Impermanence is Meredith Monk's first ECM recording since mercy (472 4682) in 2002. Embodying a broad spectrum of emotions, the phenomenal American artist and her dynamic Vocal Ensemble take the audience on a poetic journey to a place where music, dance and video portraits reflect the delicacy and power of the human spirit. Each section provides a non-narrative look at "the different facets of impermanence and the joy and wonder of being". Accompanied by voice, piano, clarinet, breath, marimba, vibraphone, bicycle tyre and other inventive percussive instruments, the many scenes create a collage of emotion, image, and sound that gently transports the audience through a haunting, mysterious, and essentially human experience. Impermanence was recorded at Avatar Studios in New York in January last year but it was premiered at the Riverside Studios in London in July 2004 as part of the first festival mounted by Rosetta Life, an organisation which sends professional artists into hospices to work with people who have life-threatening illnesses. Monk had been invited to lead some workshops in London - "a deeply moving experience" - and the work was inspired by the patients she encountered and also by the death in 2002 of her long term partner, Dutch choreographer and dance teacher Mieke van Hoek.

American composer, vocal innovator, choreographer, dancer, multimedia artist, Meredith Monk has defined the very concept of interdisciplinary performance art in the course of her long, illustrious career. She's been associated with ECM since 1980 and Impermanence is her ninth recording for the label. In early March, Monk and her Vocal Ensemble will be in residence at Dartington College of Arts in Devon to develop a major new work, Songs of Ascension, which will premiere and tour in 2008-2009.
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