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If you appreciate the works of artists like *Steve Reich* or the *Kronos Quartet*, you will find great enjoyment in exploring Meredith Monk's extraordinary musical creations.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-recordings","title":"The Recordings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeredith Monk - The Recordings\u003c\/i\u003e, a 13-CD limited box set edition compiling all Meredith Monk ECM New Series recordings to date, is issued on the occasion of the composer and singer's 80th birthday. Meredith was the first singer to have a leader-date on ECM Records and has released her music with the label since \u003ci\u003eDolmen Music\u003c\/i\u003e in 1981.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis beautifully designed box set incorporates a 300-page book reprising all original liner notes, as well as new texts and interviews. Additionally the book includes an introductory essay by Frank J. 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It's much easier to conceive of bridging public divides -- or even containing multitudes, as an individual -- when you witness a synthesis like the one created in Cellular Songs.\" The second part of an interdisciplinary trilogy begun with On Behalf of Nature, Cellular Songs looks inward, at the fabric of life itself, and draws inspiration from cellular activity including replication and mutation, in the course of some of Meredith Monk's most adventurous vocal music. The composer describes her process in spatial terms: \"Earlier, my music had much more to do with layering. 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