Year |
Album details |
Notes |
1986 |
Philip Glass, Songs from Liquid Days
- Released: 1986
- Label:
- Format: CD
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- Kronos plays "Freezing" and "Forgetting." Vocals by Linda Ronstadt (both tracks), backing vocals by The Roches ("Forgetting").
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1987 |
John Zorn, Spillane
- Released: 1987
- Label: Elecktra/Nonesuch
- Format: LP & CD
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- Kronos plays "Forbidden Fruit" with Christian Marclay on turntables and vocals by Ohta Miromi with original texts by Reck.
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1993 |
Chance Operation: The John Cage Tribute
- Released: 1993
- Label:
- Format: CD
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- Tribute to John Cage; Kronos plays "Thirty Pieces for String Quartet Excerpt."
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1995 |
In C: 25th Anniversary Concert
- Released: 9 February 1995
- Label:
- Format: CD
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1995 |
Joan Armatrading, What's Inside
- Released: 10 October 1995
- Label:
- Format: CD
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- Kronos plays on "Shapes and Sizes."
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1995 |
Heat
- Released: 19 December 1995
- Label:
- Format: CD
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- Soundtrack by Elliot Goldenthal; other artists include Einstürzende Neubauten, Moby, and Brian Eno; Kronos plays "Heat", "Refinery Surveillance", "Predator Diorama."
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1996 |
David Grisman Quintet, DGQ-20
- Released: 16 July 1996
- Label:
- Format: CD
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- Kronos plays on "Mondo Mando."
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1998 |
Dave Matthews Band, Before These Crowded Streets
- Released: 28 April 1998
- Label:
- Format: CD
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- Kronos plays on "The Stone."
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1999 |
Jay Cloidt, Kole Kat Krush
- Released: 1999
- Label:
- Format: CD
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- Kronos plays on "Kole Kat Krush."
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1999 |
Café Tacuba, Reves/Yosoy
- Released: 20 July 1999
- Label:
- Format: 2CD
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- Kronos plays "M.C." on the "Reves" disc of the double album, a cover of "La Muerte Chiquita" from the "Yosoy" disc.
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2000 |
Andy Summers, Peggy's Blue Skylight
- Released: 26 September 2000
- Label:
- Format: 2CD
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- Tribute to Charles Mingus; Kronos plays on "Myself When I Am Real."
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2001 |
Osvaldo Golijov, The Man Who Cried
- Released: 22 May 2001
- Label:
- Format: CD
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- Kronos plays "Close Your Eyes (instrumental)", "Ceasar's Song", "Without A Word", "Close Your Eyes (vocal)." Other tracks by Salvatore Licitra, Taraf de Haïdouks, and others.
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2001 |
Ingram Marshall, Kingdom Come
- Released: 17 July 2001
- Label:
- Format: CD
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- Kronos plays "Fog Tropes II for String Quartet and Tape", originally written for brass sextet and rearranged for Kronos Quartet.
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2002 |
Big Bad Love (soundtrack)
- Released: 19 February 2002
- Label:
- Format: CD
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- Kronos Quartet plays "Spiritual" (with Tom Verlaine); "a once-in-a-lifetime teaming of guitarist Tom Verlaine with the Kronos Quartet."
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2003 |
Wesla Whitfield, September Songs: The Music of Wilder, Weill and Warren
- Released: 13 May 2003
- Label:
- Format: CD
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2003 |
Tiger Lillies, The Gorey End
- Released: 16 September 2003
- Label:
- Format: CD
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- Kronos contribute to 9 of the 13 songs inspired by Edward Gorey.
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2003 |
Bird Up: The Charlie Parker Remix Project
- Released: 21 October 2003
- Label:
- Format: CD
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2003 |
Nelly Furtado, Folklore
- Released: 25 November 2003
- Label:
- Format: CD
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- Kronos plays on "One-Trick Pony."
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2003 |
The Company (soundtrack)
- Released: 9 December 2003
- Label:
- Format: CD
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- Kronos plays "an eerie Kronos Quartet version of "My Funny Valentine."
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2003 |
Gustavo Santaolalla, 21 Grams (soundtrack)
- Released: 9 December 2003
- Label:
- Format: CD
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- Kronos plays "When Our Wings Are Cut, Can We Still Fly."
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2004 |
Rokia Traoré, Bowmboï
- Released: 31 August 2004
- Label:
- Format: CD
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- Kronos plays "Manian", "Bowmboï."
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2006 |
Dan Zanes, Catch that Train
- Released: 16 May 2006
- Label: Festival Five Records
- Format: CD
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- Kronos plays on "Grey Goose."
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2006 |
Matmos, The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast
- Released: 9 May 2006
- Label:
- Format: CD
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- Kronos plays "Solo Buttons for Joe Meek."
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2007 |
Healing the Divide: A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation
- Released: 8 July 2007
- Label:
- Format: CD
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- Kronos plays on "Way Down in the Hole", "God's Away on Business", "Lost In The Harbor", and "Diamond In Your Mind", four songs with Tom Waits (vocals) and Greg Cohen (bass). "Thanks to Waits' complex sense of the human condition, these are among Kronos' most powerful, satisfying performances. Highly recommended."
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2007 |
Osvaldo Golijov, Oceana
- Released: 10 July 2007
- Label:
- Format: CD
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- Kronos plays "Tenebrae 1", "Tenebrae 2." "This is Kronos far afield from pop flirtations, spiritually resplendent and leaving you wanting more at the same time."
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2007 |
Nine Inch Nails, Year Zero Remixed
- Released: 20 December 2007
- Label:
- Format: CD
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- Kronos plays "Another Version of the Truth" with Enrique Gonzalez Müller.
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2008 |
Philip Glass, Glass Box: A Nonesuch Retrospective
- Released: 30 September 2008
- Label: Nonesuch
- Format: CD
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- 10-CD collection of the work of Philip Glass on Nonesuch.
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2008 |
Kronos Quartet, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Kronos plays Holmgreen
- Released: 28 October 2008
- Label:
- Format: CD
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- Kronos plays "Moving", "Still." With Danish National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Dausgaard.
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2009 |
Dark Was The Night
- Released: 16 February 2009
- Label: 4AD
- Format: CD
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- A 2 disc compilation benefiting the Red Hot Organization, a charity fighting HIV and AIDS. Kronos contributes the title track, a cover of a Blind Willie Johnson song.
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2012 |
Michael Hearst, Songs For Unusual Creatures
- Released: 8 May 2012
- Label: Urban Geek Records
- Format: CD
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- Kronos plays "Aye-aye", and "Weddell Seal."
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