mercy (Meredith Monk album)

mercy

Released

October 29, 2002

Recorded

March 19–20, 2002 at Sorcerer Sound, New York

Length

57:16

Tom Bogdan, Meredith Monk

Volcano Songs
(1997)

mercy
(2002)

Impermanence
(2008)

mercy is the eleventh album by Meredith Monk, released on October 29, 2002 through ECM New Series.

Track listing

mercy: Opera for 6 voices, 2 keyboards, percussion, violin & theremin
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"braid 1 and leaping song" (for voices and ensemble)	Meredith Monk	8:14
2.	"braid 2" (for voices and ensemble)	Meredith Monk	2:35
3.	"urban march (shadow)" (for voices, synthesizer and piano)	Meredith Monk	3:10
4.	"masks" (for voices)	Meredith Monk	1:43
5.	"line 1" (for cymbals with microphone)	Bohdan Hilash, John Hollenbeck, Allison Sniffi	1:14

mercy: Opera for 6 voices, 2 keyboards, percussion, violin & theremin
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"doctor/patient" (for voices, piano, marimba and vibraphone)	Meredith Monk	8:21
7.	"line 2" (for cymbals with microphone and violin)	Bohdan Hilash, John Hollenbeck, Allison Sniffi	1:01

mercy: Opera for 6 voices, 2 keyboards, percussion, violin & theremin
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
8.	"woman at the door" (for voices, piano and melodica)	Meredith Monk	5:55
9.	"line 3 and prisoner" (voices and ensemble)	Bohdan Hilash, John Hollenbeck, Allison Sniffi	5:23
10.	"epilogue" (for voice, clarinet, piano and melodica)	Meredith Monk	1:54
11.	"shaking" (for voices and ensemble)	Meredith Monk	3:05
12.	"liquid air" (for voices and bowed vibraphone)	Meredith Monk	3:53
13.	"urban march (light)" (for voices and ensemble)	Meredith Monk	6:05
14.	"core chant" (for voices and marimba)	Meredith Monk	4:43

Allison Easter – vocals (1)
Theo Bleckmann – vocals (1-4, 6, 8, 9, 11-14)
Katie Geissinger – vocals (1-4, 8, 9, 11-14)
Ching Gonzalez – vocals (1-4, 8, 9, 11-14)
Bohdan Hilash – A clarinet (1), soprano clarinet (1, 10), bass clarinet (9, 13), E♭ clarinet (13), contrabass clarinet (13)
John Hollenbeck – bells (1, 9), xylophone (1, 11), vibraphone (1, 6, 12, 13), marimba (1, 2, 6, 13, 11, 14), piano (3), vocals (4), cymbals (5, 7, 9), melodica (8, 10), percussion (9), cowbell (11), gong (11), bass drum (13), percussion (13), triangle (13)
Meredith Monk – vocals (1, 2, 4, 6, 8-14), production
Allison Sniffin – viola (1), vocals (1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 13), piano (1, 6, 8-11, 14), synthesizer (3), violin (7)

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 Possible Sky Stringsongs

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