The electronic music pioneer says the album is “inspired by her pilot's diaries, the telegrams she wrote to her husband and my idea of what a woman flying around the world might be thinking.”
Laurie Anderson will return this summer with Amaliaher first new album in five years.
Out August 30 via Nonesuch Records, Amalia influenced by aviation legend Amelia Earhart, the first woman to cross the Atlantic who disappeared on her 1937 round-the-world flight. You can listen to a first taste of the album, the meditative track 'Road to Mandalay', 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 think,” Anderson said in a statement.
Amalia it contains 22 tracks and features contributions from Anohni, violinist-arranger Rob Moose, Gabriel Cabezas, Martha Mooke, Marc Ribot and others, as well as the Czech Philharmonie Brno, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies.
Anderson's last album was in 2018 Rejection. Earlier this year, he received a Lifetime Achievement Grammy. “I make a kind of music that doesn't have an apt name,” he said at the ceremony. “It's called 'multimedia' or 'art music', or what I like least, 'experimental', which sounds like you're making things in a lab that might explode. So it's really an honor to be here with my honorees who really know how to groove but also make beautiful, soulful music.”
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