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Laurie Anderson’s Amelia comprises twenty-two tracks about renowned female aviator Amelia Earhart’s tragic last flight. Anderson wrote the music and lyrics for this subjective narrative piece. On the album, she is joined by the Czech orchestra Filharmonie Brno, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, and Anohni, Gabriel Cabezas, Rob Moose, Ryan Kelly, Martha Mooke, Marc Ribot, Tony Scherr, Nadia Sirota, and Kenny Wollesen. “I spend a lot of time in the studio by myself doing stuff ... with a bunch of instrument panels, and I felt like I was making something that was gonna go somewhere somehow, so I had a feel for her,” Anderson tells author and journalist Jonathan Cott in a conversation about the project and her connection to Earhart. You can see what else she had to say in that conversation and one with Dennis Russell Davies, as well as archival photographs and film, and songs from the album, in this video on the making of Amelia, made by Robert Edridge-Waks.
Watch This VideoAs part of the year-long celebration of Nonesuch Records' 60th anniversary, Laurie Anderson joins the Nonesuch Selects video series, in which artists stop by the Nonesuch office, pick some of their favorite albums from the music library, and share a few words on their choices. Anderson stopped by and chose recordings by Randy Newman, Steve Reich, Conor Oberst, Philip Glass, Bill Frisell, John Adams, and Rhys Chatham.
Watch This VideoNonesuch Records Chairman Emeritus Bob Hurwitz speaks with Laurie Anderson for In Our Time, a series of online discussions conceived for the New School's College of Performing Arts and UCLA.
Watch This VideoHere is the video for "CNN Predicts a Monster Storm," the opening track to Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet's 2018 album Landfall.
Watch This VideoLaurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet's "The Water Rises" and "Our Street Is a Black River" from the 2018 album Landfall.
Watch This VideoLaurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet's "We Learn to Speak Yet Another Language" from the 2018 album Landfall.
Watch This VideoLaurie Anderson's first feature film in 30 years, Heart of a Dog is a personal essay on joy and heartbreak and remembering and forgetting, at the heart of which is a lament for her late beloved dog Lolabelle. It's "one of the most moving and provocative films you’ll see this year," says New York. The Nonesuch album is the full audio recording of the film, including all music and spoken text.
Watch This VideoFenway Bergamot, Laurie Anderson's male alter ego, featured on her 2010 album Homeland, imagines life as a troubadour in pastoral France, with all that might entail—the good, the bad, the fantastical.
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