Impermanence (album)

Impermanence

Studio album by Meredith Monk

Released

March 18, 2008

Recorded

January 2007 at Avatar Studios, New York

Genre

Minimalism

Length

65:06

Meredith Monk chronology

mercy
(2002)

Impermanence
(2008)

Beginnings
(2009)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Impermanence is the twelfth album by Meredith Monk, released on March 18, 2008 through ECM New Series.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
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

References

↑ Eddins, Stephen. "Meredith Monk: Impermanence". Allmusic. Retrieved July 4, 2013.

Meredith Monk

Studio albums	Key Our Lady of Late Songs from the Hill/Tablet Dolmen Music Turtle Dreams Do You Be Book of Days Facing North Atlas: An Opera in Three Parts Volcano Songs mercy Impermanence Songs of Ascension

Compilation albums	Beginnings

Compositions	Atlas

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