Talking To A Different Drum
MONXCD002
Vanita & Joe Monk
Adventures in words, music and social engineering
December 2003 and January 2004
La Grande River Blues
Social engineering with a human face
Everyone except me knows exactly why they're here
The order of life is transparent
An ant farm between two plates of glass
There's no unemployment office in this town
No old folks home either
The common workers sleep in barracks
If they lose their jobs they lose their beds
In the long subarctic winter
The human moles digging the underground powerhouses
See the sun only once a week
The pay is fabulous but there's nothing to spend it on.
Collective Personnel:
- Joe Monk: lead & backing vocal, reading, clarinet, keyboard, signal processing, voice
- Vanita Monk: lead vocal, reading, keyboard, voice
- Pierre Verbeek: lead vocal, cello, electric guitar, voice
- Mariette Kleisen: soprano & tenor saxophone, clarinet, voice
- Ruslan Amirinsky: soprano saxophone, recorder, voice
- Miriam Siebenstädt: alto & baritone saxophone, voice
- Henk van Schaik: tenor saxophone, backing vocal, voice
- Victor Suy Bio Snijtsheuvel: electric guitar, voice
- Mira Uršić: violin, voice
- Peter Sterk: cello, broken pianos, voice
- Willy Bakker: backing vocal, voice
© 2004, 2010 Monastery Records. All rights reserved.
All words copyright © 2004, 2008 by Vanita & Joe Monk
(all rights reserved), except:
'My Voice' and 'My Instrument'
words improvised by the vocalists
All music composed and conducted by Vanita & Joe Monk, except:
'La Grande River Blues'
music by Pierre Verbeek and Vanita & Joe Monk
'Is There Anything I Can Do For You?'
music by Mariette Kleisen and Vanita & Joe Monk
Recorded in December 2003 and January 2004
at the Jazz Bunker and the Poortgebouw, Rotterdam.
Recorded by Joe Monk, Pierre Verbeek and Katja Vetter.
Produced by Vanita & Joe Monk.
Cover design by Vanita & Joe Monk.
Front cover photograph: Frances Densmore and Blackfoot leader Mountain Chief at the Smithsonian Institution in 1916, during a recording session for the Bureau of American Ethnology. Photographer unknown (Public Domain).
Warning: unauthorized reproduction is a violation of applicable laws.
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