| Book of Days | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 78629
Category: Music
Publisher: Ecm Records
Studio: Ecm Records
Manufacturer: Ecm Records
Label: Ecm Records
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 042283962422
EAN: 0004228396242
ASIN: B000025ZJM
Release Date: February 1, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | Early Morning Melody | | • | Travellers 1, 2, 3 | | • | Dawn | | • | Travellers 4 | | • | Churchyard Entertainment | | • | Afternoon Melodies | | • | Fields/Clouds | | • | Eva's Song | | • | Evening | | • | Travellers 5 | | • | Jewish Storyteller/Dance/Dream | | • | Plauge | | • | Madwoman's Vision |
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| Customer Reviews:
Meredith Monk "Book of Days" January 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
When I heard this album in vinyl edition, about 16 years ago, I was very surprised to hear how the human voice can be used as a musical instrument, producing all sorts of sounds and evoking images and feelings without using a single word. This is what Meredith Monk and her vocal ensemble have achieved, with only a faint use of musical instruments such as keybords and pipes, by using mainly the voice as a vehicle to convey these feelings and images. For example "Plague" is a piece with sounds where the music is almost absolutely absent, to create the nightmarish impression of a serious disease. "Madwoman's vision" uses sounds that give us the impression of wailing. Other tracks like "Early Morning Melody" or "Eva's song" are lighter, "easier" to listen.
Although this is characterised an avantgarde album, it can appeal to someone who listens to it for the first time, because of the richness of images and feelings it evokes.
Near perfection... May 18, 2001
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
Being an instrumentalist, I've never been bothered by the complaints of my friends that Meredith Monk has no lyrics -- like a great, perfectly blended wind ensemble, her cast gives a flawless and nuanced performance throughout. At equal turns ecstasy of beauty, eery and haunting, and laugh-out-loud spritely, the two parts I didn't like on this CD were, unsuprisingly, the improvisational bagpipe and the eery but jarring Madwoman's Song. But with an experimenter like Meredith Monk, not everything will hit with everybody, and these thematically provided appropriate contrast to the unrelenting beauty of the rest of the CD. Ms. Monk's unique style and ever strong voice fit perfectly with the medieval setting. Now, anyone know where to find the movie this is the soundtrack to? I've been intrigued with finding it since the day I got this CD of peace and beauty...
Her most satisfying work November 12, 2000
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
The finest, most fully realized Meredith Monk cd, methinks. The medieval theme does her well, puts her vocal explorations in a context that really brings out the magic in the music. One of the few CDs I know that can completely transform the feel of a room it's being played in. Wonderful.
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