Laurie Anderson has announced a new album centered around the tragic final flight of pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart. Amalia released August 30 via Unparalleled. Lead single “Road to Mandalay” is the first preview of Anderson's take on the subject, and you can listen to it below.
“The words used in Amalia they are inspired by her pilots' diaries, the telegrams she wrote to her husband, and my idea of what a woman flying around the world might be thinking,” Anderson explains. Helping bring her musical vision to life is Czech orchestra Filharmonie Brno with conductors Dennis Russell Davies, Anohni, Gabriel Cabezas, Rob Moose, Ryan Kelly, Martha Mooke, Marc Ribot, Tony Scherr, Nadia Sirota and Kenny Wolleson.
Amalia is Anderson's first proper album in six years, following her Grammy-winning record in 2018 Rejection. The following year, he joined Tenzin Choegyal and Jesse Paris Smith Songs From the Bardoin which Anderson reads passages from The Bardo Thodol translated into English by Choegyal. Earlier this year, Anderson received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Read the Sunday Review of Laurie Anderson's first live collection, 1984 United States Liveand revisit “How Experimental Musicians Are Soundtracking the End of the World.”
Amalia:
01 To circle the world
02 I see something shining
03 Take off
04 High
05 San Juan
06 Brazil
07 Crossing the Equator
08 The Badlands
09 Sand waves
10 The letter
11 India and under in Australia
12 This modern world
13 Flying at night
14 The Reason for the Woman Here
15 Road to Mandalay
16 Broken Timers
17 Nothing But Silt
18 The Wrong Way
19 Fly to the Sun
20 Howland Island
21 Radio
22 Lucky Dimes
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