Our catalogue of recordings, released and unreleased, by the Monks and others.
More releases coming soon. Click on the titles or the cover images to see more information and to hear some sample tracks.
Improvised Explosive Devices
MONXCD001
Vanita & Joe Monk
Duets and small group manipulations (earliest recordings)
With Pierre Verbeek, Miriam Siebenstädt, Mariëtte Kleisen, Henk van Schaik, Ruslan Amarinsky, Mira Ursić, Peter Sterk & Victor Biao Snijtsheuvel.
December 2003 and January 2004
Improvised Explosive Devices #1-92.
Talking To A Different Drum
MONXCD002 (in preparation)
Vanita & Joe Monk
Experiments in Words, Music and Social Engineering
With Pierre Verbeek, Miriam Siebenstädt, Mariëtte Kleisen, Henk van Schaik, Ruslan Amarinsky, Mira Ursić, Peter Sterk, Victor Biao Snijtsheuvel & Willy Bakker.
December 2003 and January 2004
My Voice; My Instrument; Not My Instrument;
Dirty Life #1; 1st Counterpoint On Dirty Life #4;
Is There Anything I Can Do For You (I Asked Myself);
La Grande River Blues.
Wet Beast Breaking Through Ice
MONXCD003
Vanita & Joe Monk
Early Liberations of Music and Literature
With Bruno Ferro Xavier da Silva, Robin Schaeverbeke, Jelis Stam, Remco Takken, Simone Tecla, Victor Biao Snijtsheuvel, Lukas Simonis, Nina Hitz & Robert Kroos
December 2004 to July 2007
Left, Right; 7(+2) Songs From Wet Grass (Song Of The Rain - March Of The Rain - Song Of The Memories - March Of The Memories - Song of Mattress, Candle and Gin - Song Of The Road - Blind Rain Boogie - Song Of The Virgin - One More Time Song); Fear Of Nothing; Nothing But Nothing Itself; Dirty Life #6; Frog Story; Song For Pierre; The Warrior's Love Song; Dirty Words (Open Als Wat); Dirty Life #7.
Vanita & Joe Monk
Keyboard and woodwind improvisations
January 2006 to January 2007
I Am A Ghost - parts 1, 2;
I See A Ghost Too - parts 1, 2, 3;
Always These Ghosts - parts 1, 2, 3;
Ghosts (theme by Albert Ayler).
Free Discipline For About 17 Improvisers
(officially unreleased, available for free online)
Not Necessarily Music Orchestra
(Willy Bakker, Vanita Monk, Jola Meijer, Joe Monk, Rob van Schaik, Hans Lagerweij, Henk van Schaik, Jelis Stam, Victor Snijtsheuvel, Remco Takken, J.W. Van Hemert, Joost van Oosten, Jeroen Visser, Károly Tóth, Han van Hulzen, Hugo van Rooij)
June 8, 2007
The Secret Word For Tonight Is Discipline;
And Discipline Begins With Silence.
Various unreleased tracks
which haven't made it to a proper CD release (yet)
This Is A Dangerous Group Uh Groups
That We're Dealing With Now
Pierre Bastien, Joe Monk, Vanita Monk, Károly Tóth [Zeroglab]
March 3, 2007
