Kronos Quartet Discography - Contributions

Contributions

Year Album details Notes
1986 Philip Glass, Songs from Liquid Days
  • Released: 1986
  • Label:
  • Format: CD
  • Kronos plays "Freezing" and "Forgetting." Vocals by Linda Ronstadt (both tracks), backing vocals by The Roches ("Forgetting").
1987 John Zorn, Spillane
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: Elecktra/Nonesuch
  • Format: LP & CD
  • Kronos plays "Forbidden Fruit" with Christian Marclay on turntables and vocals by Ohta Miromi with original texts by Reck.
1993 Chance Operation: The John Cage Tribute
  • Released: 1993
  • Label:
  • Format: CD
  • Tribute to John Cage; Kronos plays "Thirty Pieces for String Quartet Excerpt."
1995 In C: 25th Anniversary Concert
  • Released: 9 February 1995
  • Label:
  • Format: CD
  • Music by Terry Riley.
1995 Joan Armatrading, What's Inside
  • Released: 10 October 1995
  • Label:
  • Format: CD
  • Kronos plays on "Shapes and Sizes."
1995 Heat
  • Released: 19 December 1995
  • Label:
  • Format: CD
  • Soundtrack by Elliot Goldenthal; other artists include Einstürzende Neubauten, Moby, and Brian Eno; Kronos plays "Heat", "Refinery Surveillance", "Predator Diorama."
1996 David Grisman Quintet, DGQ-20
  • Released: 16 July 1996
  • Label:
  • Format: CD
  • Kronos plays on "Mondo Mando."
1998 Dave Matthews Band, Before These Crowded Streets
  • Released: 28 April 1998
  • Label:
  • Format: CD
  • Kronos plays on "The Stone."
1999 Jay Cloidt, Kole Kat Krush
  • Released: 1999
  • Label:
  • Format: CD
  • Kronos plays on "Kole Kat Krush."
1999 Café Tacuba, Reves/Yosoy
  • Released: 20 July 1999
  • Label:
  • Format: 2CD
  • Kronos plays "M.C." on the "Reves" disc of the double album, a cover of "La Muerte Chiquita" from the "Yosoy" disc.
2000 Andy Summers, Peggy's Blue Skylight
  • Released: 26 September 2000
  • Label:
  • Format: 2CD
  • Tribute to Charles Mingus; Kronos plays on "Myself When I Am Real."
2001 Osvaldo Golijov, The Man Who Cried
  • Released: 22 May 2001
  • Label:
  • Format: CD
  • 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.
2001 Ingram Marshall, Kingdom Come
  • Released: 17 July 2001
  • Label:
  • Format: CD
  • Kronos plays "Fog Tropes II for String Quartet and Tape", originally written for brass sextet and rearranged for Kronos Quartet.
2002 Big Bad Love (soundtrack)
  • Released: 19 February 2002
  • Label:
  • Format: CD
  • Kronos Quartet plays "Spiritual" (with Tom Verlaine); "a once-in-a-lifetime teaming of guitarist Tom Verlaine with the Kronos Quartet."
2003 Wesla Whitfield, September Songs: The Music of Wilder, Weill and Warren
  • Released: 13 May 2003
  • Label:
  • Format: CD
2003 Tiger Lillies, The Gorey End
  • Released: 16 September 2003
  • Label:
  • Format: CD
  • Kronos contribute to 9 of the 13 songs inspired by Edward Gorey.
2003 Bird Up: The Charlie Parker Remix Project
  • Released: 21 October 2003
  • Label:
  • Format: CD
2003 Nelly Furtado, Folklore
  • Released: 25 November 2003
  • Label:
  • Format: CD
  • Kronos plays on "One-Trick Pony."
2003 The Company (soundtrack)
  • Released: 9 December 2003
  • Label:
  • Format: CD
  • Kronos plays "an eerie Kronos Quartet version of "My Funny Valentine."
2003 Gustavo Santaolalla, 21 Grams (soundtrack)
  • Released: 9 December 2003
  • Label:
  • Format: CD
  • Kronos plays "When Our Wings Are Cut, Can We Still Fly."
2004 Rokia Traoré, Bowmboï
  • Released: 31 August 2004
  • Label:
  • Format: CD
  • Kronos plays "Manian", "Bowmboï."
2006 Dan Zanes, Catch that Train
  • Released: 16 May 2006
  • Label: Festival Five Records
  • Format: CD
  • Kronos plays on "Grey Goose."
2006 Matmos, The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast
  • Released: 9 May 2006
  • Label:
  • Format: CD
  • Kronos plays "Solo Buttons for Joe Meek."
2007 Healing the Divide: A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation
  • Released: 8 July 2007
  • Label:
  • Format: CD
  • 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."
2007 Osvaldo Golijov, Oceana
  • Released: 10 July 2007
  • Label:
  • Format: CD
  • 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."
2007 Nine Inch Nails, Year Zero Remixed
  • Released: 20 December 2007
  • Label:
  • Format: CD
  • Kronos plays "Another Version of the Truth" with Enrique Gonzalez Müller.
2008 Philip Glass, Glass Box: A Nonesuch Retrospective
  • Released: 30 September 2008
  • Label: Nonesuch
  • Format: CD
  • 10-CD collection of the work of Philip Glass on Nonesuch.
2008 Kronos Quartet, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Kronos plays Holmgreen
  • Released: 28 October 2008
  • Label:
  • Format: CD
  • Kronos plays "Moving", "Still." With Danish National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Dausgaard.
2009 Dark Was The Night
  • Released: 16 February 2009
  • Label: 4AD
  • Format: CD
  • 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.
2012 Michael Hearst, Songs For Unusual Creatures
  • Released: 8 May 2012
  • Label: Urban Geek Records
  • Format: CD
  • Kronos plays "Aye-aye", and "Weddell Seal."

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