Amelia [LP]

Just this spring, Laurie Anderson was honored with the 2024 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for her life's work, and now the iconic US artist has announced the release of a new album. It is entitled "Amelia", will be released via Nonesuch Records and is her first since "Landfall" in 2018, which was also awarded a Grammy the following year.

"Amelia", the title of her new album, refers to the famous aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. On the album's 22 tracks, Anderson dedicates herself to her tragic last flight in 1937. Anderson, who according to Pitchfork "sees the future but first pays close attention to what surrounds her", wrote the music and lyrics for this subjective narrative work. On the album, she is accompanied by the Czech orchestra Filharmonie Brno under the direction of Dennis Russell Davies, as well as the artists Anohni, Gabriel Cabezas, Rob Moose, Ryan Kelly, Martha Mooke, Marc Ribot, Tony Scherr, Nadia Sirota and Kenny Wollesen.