Laurie Anderson is back to announce amelia, their first album in six years, due out August 30 via Nonesuch. He also offered the first preview of the album, “Road to Mandalay.”
amelia is a concept album composed of 22 songs that follow the last flight of the renowned aviator Amelia Earhart. Laurie Anderson previously conceived amelia for a performance at Carnegie Hall in 2000, and the artist recently updated the composition and performed it throughout Europe. she recorded amelia with the Czech orchestra Filharmonie Brno, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies; They collaborated with Anohni, Gabriel Cabezas, Rob Moose, Ryan Kelly, Martha Mooke, Marc Ribot, Tony Scherr, Nadia Sirota and Kenny Wolleson.
The project traces the origins and subsequent misfortune of Amelia Earhart's transatlantic flight, which crashed at an unknown location and left the pioneering pilot stranded. “The words used in amelia “They are inspired by her pilot diaries, the telegrams she wrote to her husband, and my idea of what a woman flying around the world might think,” Anderson said of the project.
“Road to Mandalay”, the first single from the album, is a short and brilliant sample of amelia. He unfolds like Earhart's internal monologue, with stream-of-consciousness musings and a sense of both discovery and anxiety. As he concludes his verse, the orchestra swells: “Where am I?” Anderson asks Earhart, admittedly unable to answer his own question. Listen to “Road to Mandalay” below.
Anderson's last album was 2018. Landfall, which was inspired by Hurricane Sandy. Most recently, Anderson was the co-artistic director of this year's House of Tibet benefit concert at Carnegie Hall, which featured performances by Joan Baez, Maggie Rogers, Maya Hawke, Gogol Bordello and more.
amelia Album artwork:
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amelia Songs list:
01. “Go around the world”
02. “I see something shiny”
03. “Takeoff”
04. “On top”
05. “Saint John”
06. “Brazil”
07. “Crossing the equator”
08. “The Waste Lands”
09. “Waves of sand”
10. “The Letter”
11. “India and even Australia”
12. “This modern world”
13. “Flying at night”
14. “The word for women”
15. “Road to Mandalay”
16. “Broken stopwatches”
17. “Nothing but slime”
18. “The wrong way”
19. “Fly towards the sun”
20. “Howland Island”
21. “Radio”
22. “Lucky dime”
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