Dolmen Music Explained

Dolmen Music
Type:	studio
Artist:	Meredith Monk
Cover:	Dolmen Music.jpg
Recorded:	March 1980; January 1981
Studio:	Hometown Studios, New York City; Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg
Genre:	Contemporary classical music
Label:	ECM New Series 1197
Producer:	Collin Walcott, Manfred Eicher
Prev Title:	Songs from the Hill/Tablet
Prev Year:	1979
Next Title:	Turtle Dreams
Next Year:	1983

Dolmen Music is a 1981 studio album by American composer and vocalist Meredith Monk recorded over two sessions in March 1980 and January 1981 and released on the ECM New Series—her first of twelve releases for the label.^{[1] [2]}

Background

DJ Shadow sampled "Dolmen Music" on the track "Midnight in a Perfect World" from Endtroducing..... (1996).^[3]

Reception

NME named it as the 42nd best album of 1981.^[4] In 2017, NPR placed it at number 147 on its list of the "150 Greatest Albums Made by Women".^[5]

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes.

• Meredith Monk - voice, piano
• Collin Walcott - percussion (tracks 1-4), violin (tracks 1-4)
• Steve Lockwood - piano (track 3)
• Andrea Goodman - voice (track 5)
• Monika Solem - voice (track 5)
• Paul Langland - voice (track 5)
• Robert Een - voice (track 5), cello (track 5)
• Julius Eastman - voice (track 5), percussion (track 5)

Notes and References

1. Web site: ECM discography. https://web.archive.org/web/20091028085219/http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/New_Series/1100/1197.php. October 28, 2009. September 20, 2011.
2. News: Woolfe . Zachary . November 28, 2014 . Meredith Monk Celebrates 50 Years of Work . The New York Times . August 1, 2017 . 0362-4331.
3. Web site: The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s: 20–01. Pitchfork. September 3, 2010. August 1, 2017.
4. Web site: Albums And Tracks Of The Year: 1981. NME. October 10, 2016. August 1, 2017.
5. Web site: The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women. NPR. July 24, 2017. August 1, 2017.