Atlas: An Opera in Three Parts
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{{Infobox album
| name = Atlas: An Opera in Three Parts
| type = studio
| artist = Meredith Monk
| cover = Meredith Monk - Atlas.jpg
| alt =
| released = June 1993
| recorded = {{Start date|1992|6}}
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Modern classical, minimalism
| length = 128:27
| label = ECM New Series
ECM 1491/92
| producer = Manfred Eicher
| prev_title = Facing North
| prev_year = 1992
| next_title = Volcano Songs
| next_year = 1997
}}
Atlas: An Opera in Three Parts is the ninth studio album and first double album by Meredith Monk, recorded in June 1992 and released on the ECM New Series a year later, consisting a full-length recording of Monk's 1991 opera Atlas.{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite web |first=Mark W.B. |last=Allender |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r201988|pure_url=yes}}|title=Atlas: An Opera in 3 Parts |publisher=Allmusic |date= |accessdate=June 30, 2013}}
}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| headline = Disc one
I: Personal Climate
| all_writing = Meredith Monk
| title1 = Overture (Out of Body)
| length1 = 3:07
| title2 = Travel Dream Song
| length2 = 5:07
| title3 = Home Scene
| length3 = 2:38
| title4 = Future Quest (The Call)
| length4 = 11:15
| title5 = Rite of Passage A
| length5 = 0:57
| title6 = Choosing Companions
| length6 = 7:44
| title7 = Airport
| length7 = 9:19
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = II: Night Travel
| title8 = Night Travel
| length8 = 3:14
| title9 = Guides' Dance
| length9 = 1:51
| title10 = Agricultural Community
| length10 = 14:36
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Disc two
| title1 = Loss Song
| length1 = 4:14
| title2 = Campfire/Hungry Ghost
| length2 = 7:43
| title3 = Father's Hope
| length3 = 1:13
| title4 = Ice Demons
| length4 = 6:20
| title5 = Explorer #5/Lesson/Explorers' Procession
| length5 = 6:04
| title6 = Lonely Spirit
| length6 = 3:33
| title7 = Forest Questions
| length7 = 10:19
| title8 = Desert Tango
| length8 = 7:52
| title9 = Treachery (Temptation)
| length9 = 2:11
| title10 = Possibility of Destruction
| length10 = 2:46
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = III: Invisible Light
| title11 = Out of Body 2
| length11 = 2:58
| title12 = Other Worlds Revealed
| length12 = 1:28
| title13 = Explorers' Junctures
| length13 = 2:42
| title14 = Earth Seen from Above
| length14 = 7:34
| title15 = Rite of Passage B
| length15 = 1:42
}}
Personnel
= Musicians =
- Carlos Arévalo – vocals
- Thomas Bogdan – vocals
- Victoria Boomsma – vocals
- Janis Brenner – vocals
- Kathleen Carroll – viola
- Shi-Zheng Chen – vocals
- John Cipolla – bass clarinet
- Allison Easter – vocals
- Robert Een – vocals
- Diana Emerson – vocals
- Dina Emerson – vocals
- Emily Eyre – vocals
- Emily K. Eyre – vocals
- Arthur J. Jr. Fiacco – cello
- Katie Geissinger – vocals
- Ching Gonzalez – vocals
- Dana Hanchard – vocals
- Wayne Hankin – conductor, shawm, sheng, vocals
- Bill Hayes – glass harmonica
- Wendy Hill – vocals
- Susan Iadone – violin
- Stephen Kalm – vocals
- Darryl Kubian – violin
- Steve Lockwood – orchestration, keyboards
- David Meschter – sampler
- Meredith Monk – vocals, cello
- Bobby Osborne – vocals
- Robert Osborne – vocals
- Wilbur Pauley – vocals
- Anthony Pirollo – cello
- Cynthia Powell – keyboards
- Thad Wheeler – percussion
- James F. Wilson – French horn
- Randall K. Wong – vocals
= Technical personnel =
- Manfred Eicher – production
- Jan Erik Kongshaug – engineer
- James Farber – engineer
- Carol Bokuniewicz – design
- Jim Caldwell – photography
- Peter Moore – photography
- Larry Watson – photography
References
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