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Cover of ATLAS

ATLAS

Meredith Monk

1993

Opera

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Tracklist 25 tracks, 2:08:39

Disc 1

  1. 1Atlas: Part I "Personal Climate": Overture (Out of Body 1)3:07
  2. 2Atlas: Part I "Personal Climate": Travel Dream Song5:07
  3. 3Atlas: Part I "Personal Climate": Home Scene2:38
  4. 4Atlas: Part I "Personal Climate": Future Quest (The Call)11:15
  5. 5Atlas: Part I "Personal Climate": Rite of Passage A0:57
  6. 6Atlas: Part I "Personal Climate": Choosing Companions7:44
  7. 7Atlas: Part I "Personal Climate": Airport9:19
  8. 8Atlas: Part II "Night Travel": Night Travel3:15
  9. 9Atlas: Part II "Night Travel": Guides' Dance1:51
  10. 10Atlas: Part II "Night Travel": Agricultural Community14:35

Disc 2

  1. 1Atlas: Part II "Night Travel": Loss Song4:15
  2. 2Atlas: Part II "Night Travel": Campfire - Hungry Ghost7:43
  3. 3Atlas: Part II "Night Travel": Father's Hope1:14
  4. 4Atlas: Part II "Night Travel": Ice Demons6:21
  5. 5Atlas: Part II "Night Travel": Explorer #5 - Lesson - Explorers' Procession6:05
  6. 6Atlas: Part II "Night Travel": Lonely Spirit3:34
  7. 7Atlas: Part II "Night Travel": Forest Questions10:20
  8. 8Atlas: Part II "Night Travel": Desert Tango7:53
  9. 9Atlas: Part II "Night Travel": Treachery (Temptation)2:12
  10. 10Atlas: Part II "Night Travel": Possibility of Destruction2:46
  11. 11Atlas: Part III "Invisible Light": Out of Body 22:59
  12. 12Atlas: Part III "Invisible Light": Other Worlds Revealed1:29
  13. 13Atlas: Part III "Invisible Light": Explorers' Junctures2:43
  14. 14Atlas: Part III "Invisible Light": Earth Seen From Above7:35
  15. 15Atlas: Part III "Invisible Light": Rite of Passage B1:42

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10/10

I've read that Monk wrote very little of this opera down. She just had some general ideas and came into the studio and improvised a lot of what you hear on here. And that's just fine with me! Monk excels at interpretation, confident in her own skill and talent (and it's definitely a bit of both). So what is this modern opera largely without words? Is it about traveling? About following an atlas book, like a map? Or is it about Atlas himself, the god punished to hold up the world? No idea. This one is all about the strange, wordless, weird vocal gymnastics.