Label: Lovely Music - LCD 1051

オリジナルはIncrease Recordsより1971年にリリース、67年から70年までの3年間で作曲された「見えない劇場」をコンセプトとした女性重鎮作曲家/ボイスパフォーマーMeredith Monkの歴史的名盤[Key]。本作はLovely Musicによる95年CD再発版。各曲、異なる声質のキャラクター、風景、感情を意識した抽象的及びキネティックな形式で展開する超名演揃い。





1995 release. Originally released in 1971. Key contains Meredith Monk's earliest compositions for voice. The songs that make up Key were composed and performed in a three year period between 1967 and 1970, when Monk collected them into this 45-minute "invisible theater" experience. Meredith Monk on the release: "In Key I wanted to create a constantly shifting ambience. Each song dealt with a different vocal character, landscape, technical concern or emotional quality. I was trying for a visceral, kinetic song form that had the abstract qualities of a painting or a dance. I knew that I didn't want to set music to a text; for me, the voice itself was a language which seemed to speak more eloquently than words. I chose certain phonemes for their particular sound qualities. In a sense, each song became a world in itself with its own timbre, texture and impulse." Personnel: Meredith Monk - voice, organ, jews harp; Daniel Ira Sverdlik, Dick Higgins, Collin Walcott, Lanny Harrison, Mark Monstermaker - voices.