Laurie Anderson recently spoke with The Quietus about her new album, Homeland. The Quietus reviewer says: "Anderson had, has, foresight, and if she would consent to the idea of timeless, I'd use that adjective here." The Seattle Times describes it as "brilliant vocals, thought-provoking narratives, hypnotic violins and the most finely attuned poetic sensibility in rock."
Laurie Anderson, who will open the 2010 BAM Next Wave Festival in Brooklyn, New York, next month with the New York premiere of her piece Delusion, recently spoke with The Quietus about her latest Nonesuch release, Homeland. Two of the album's pieces are featured in Delusion, as is her male alter ego, Fenway Bergamot, who can be seen on the album's cover. Anderson talks with Quietus interviewer Robert Barry about the album and how Bergamot fits in to the political and personal nature of the new album. Read the interview at thequietus.com.
Barry's colleague at The Quietus, Hannah Gregory, in her review of Homeland, says: "Anderson had, has, foresight, and if she would consent to the idea of timeless, I'd use that adjective here." Read the review at thequietus.com.
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Speaking of timelessness, Anderson recently appeared on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live to offer her "Inheritance Tracks," a segment in which guests name one song they have inherited from their parents and one that they would pass on to the next generation. Anderson chose Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" and Part 1 of Philip Glass's Music in Twelve Parts.
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The Seattle Times has published a review of Homeland from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Tony Norman. "There's nothing didactic here," wrties Norman, "just brilliant vocals, thought-provoking narratives, hypnotic violins and the most finely attuned poetic sensibility in rock." Read more at seattletimes.com.
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For more on this fall's run of Delusion, visit bam.org. To pick up a copy of the Homeland CD/DVD, with the complete album as high-quality MP3s included at checkout, head to the Nonesuch Store.
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