Beginnings (Meredith Monk album)

Beginnings
Compilation album by Meredith Monk
Released	November 24, 2009
Recorded	1966 (1966)–1980 (1980)
Genre	Minimalism
Length	57:39
Label	Tzadik
Producer	Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk chronology
Impermanence (2008) Beginnings (2009) Songs of Ascension (2011)

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Beginnings is a compilation album by Meredith Monk, released on November 24, 2009 through Tzadik Records.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Meredith Monk, except "Candy Bullets and Moon" co-written with Don Preston

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Greensleeves"	4:07
2.	"Nota"	1:41
3.	"Duet for Voice and Echoplex"	3:21
4.	"Candy Bullets and Moon"	4:26
5.	"Trance"	5:17
6.	"Epic I"	3:20
7.	"Paris"	3:23
8.	"Biography"	7:49
9.	"Mill"	2:18
10.	"The Tale"	1:48
11.	"Quarry Weave"	2:51
12.	"Epic II"	1:58
13.	"Tower"	1:39
14.	"Mill"	1:44
15.	"Do You Be?"	3:28
16.	"Quarry Procession"	5:05
17.	"Porch"	3:24

Personnel

Musicians

• Andrea Goodman – vocals (11)
• Lanny Harrison – percussion (5)
• Susan Kampe – vocals (11)
• Meredith Monk – vocals (1–6, 8–17), piano (7–10, 16), organ (6, 12–15), guitar (1, 2), bass guitar (4), Jew's harp (5), production
• Don Preston – drums (4), organ (4), recording (4)
• Monica Solem – vocals (11)
• Collin Walcott – percussion (5)

Production

• David Behrman – recording (17)
• Heung-Heung Chin – design
• Scott Hull – mastering (5)
• Jack Mitchell – photography
• Peter Pilafian – recording (5)
• Robert Withers – recording (2)
• Daniel Zellman – recording (1, 3)