{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Do You Be | type = studio | artist = Meredith Monk | cover = Meredith Monk - Do You Be.jpeg | alt = | released = 1987 | recorded = {{hlist|{{Start date|1986|06}}|{{Start date|1987|01}}}} | venue = | studio = | genre = Modern classical, minimalism | length = 43:54 | label = ECM New Series 1336 | producer = Manfred Eicher | prev_title = Turtle Dreams | prev_year = 1983 | next_title = Book of Days | next_year = 1990 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |first=Mark W.B. |last=Allender |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r158351|pure_url=yes}}|title=Do You Be |publisher=Allmusic |date= |accessdate=June 28, 2013}}</ref> }}
'''''Do You Be''''' is the sixth album by Meredith Monk, recorded over two sessions in June 1986 and January 1987 and released on the ECM New Series later in 1987.
== Background == The liner notes state, "This album was made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts."
== Track listing == {{Track listing | all_writing = Meredith Monk | title1 = Scared Song | length1 = 6:04 | title2 = I Don't Know | length2 = 3:31 | title3 = Window in 7's | length3 = 2:12 | title4 = Double Fiesta | length4 = 5:21 | title5 = Do You Be | length5 = 4:02 | title6 = Panda Chant I | length6 = 1:56 | title7 = Memory Song | length7 = 6:40 | title8 = Panda Chant II | length8 = 1:35 | title9 = Quarry Lullaby | length9 = 2:00 | title10 = Shadow Song | length10 = 1:57 | title11 = Astronaut Anthem | length11 = 4:56 | title12 = Wheel | length12 = 3:40 }}
=== Notes ===
* tracks 1–4 from "Acts from Under and Above", a music/theatre piece by Meredith Monk and Lanny Harrison. * track 5 from "Vessel: An Opera Epic" by Meredith Monk. * tracks 6–8 & 10–12 from "The Games", a science fiction opera by Meredith Monk and Ping Chong. * track 9 from "Quarry", an opera by Meredith Monk.
== Personnel ==
=== June 1986 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg (tracks 1, 2, 5–10 & 12) ===
* Meredith Monk – vocals, piano <small>(2, 5)</small>, synthesizer <small>(1)</small> * Robert Een – vocals <small>(6, 8, 9)</small> * Andrea Goodman – vocals <small>(6–9, 12)</small> * Ching Gonzalez – vocals <small>(8, 9)</small> * Wayne Hankin – vocals <small>(6, 8, 9)</small>, keyboards <small>(7)</small>, bagpipes <small>(12)</small> * Naaz Hosseini – vocals <small>(6–9, 12)</small>, violin <small>(7)</small> * Nurit Tilles – piano <small>(1)</small>, keyboards <small>(7)</small>, synthesizer <small>(12)</small>, vocals <small>(8, 9)</small>
=== January 1987 at Clinton Sounds, New York (tracks 3, 4 & 11) ===
* Meredith Monk – vocals, piano <small>(11)</small> *Johanna Arnold, Robert Een, John Eppler, Andrea Goodman, Ching Gonzalez, Wayne Hankin, Naaz Hosseini, Nicky Paraiso – vocals <small>(11</small><small>)</small> *Edmund Niemann – piano <small>(4)</small> *Nurit Tilles – piano <small>(3, 4)</small>
=== Technical personnel ===
*Manfred Eicher – production *Martin Wieland – recording <small>(June 1986)</small>, mixing **mixed at Tonstudio Bauer *James Farber – recording <small>(January 1987)</small> *Barbara Wojirsch – design *Yoshio Yabara – design *JoAnn Verburg – photography
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== External links == * {{Discogs master |master=32889 |name=Do You Be |type=album}}
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Category:1987 albums Category:Albums produced by Manfred Eicher Category:ECM New Series albums Category:Meredith Monk albums
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