''Dolmen Music'' is a 1981 studio album by American composer and vocalist

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. Recorded in March 1980 and January 1981, it was released on the

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label. The recording is Monk's first of 12 recordings with the ECM record label.

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sampled "Dolmen Music" on the track "

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" from '' Endtroducing.....'' (1996). ''

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'' named it as the 42nd best album of 1981. In 2017,

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placed it at number 147 on its list of the "150 Greatest Albums Made by Women".

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes. *

— voice, piano *

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— 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)

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1981 albums ECM New Series albums Meredith Monk albums Albums produced by Manfred Eicher