Laurie Anderson has announced her first album in six years, Amelia, set to be released on August 30th via Nonesuch. Cited from Brooklyn Vegan, Anderson’s Amelia album is based on the historical figure, Amelia Earhart, and her tragic flight. Anderson is quoted as saying she was heavily inspired by Amelia Earheart’s pilot diaries and the telegrams she wrote to her husband.
Amelia comes a few months after Anderson’s performance at the Big Ears Festival. Brooklyn Vegan also reports that the album “features Czech orchestra Filharmonie Brno conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, and contributions from ANOHNI, Gabriel Cabezas, Rob Moose, Ryan Kelly, Martha Mooke, Marc Ribot, Tony Scherr, Nadia Sirota, and Kenny Wollesen.”
Amelia Track List:
To Circle the World
I See Something Shining
Take-off
Aloft
San Juan
Brazil
Crossing the Equator
The Badlands
Waves of Sand
The Letter
India And On Down to Australia
This Modern World
Flying at Night
The Word for Woman Here
Road to Mandalay
Broken Chronometers
Nothing But Silt
The Wrong Way
Fly Into the Sun
Howland Island
Radio
Lucky Dime
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