Nonesuch

After its US premiere in Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall, the Boston Globe wrote that "musically, Homeland is perhaps Anderson's most sophisticated and intriguing work." "Mambo and Bling," now available in the Nonesuch Store as a special, limited-edition 7" vinyl single, is the first recorded music from the project to be released. The single's B-side, "Behind the Screen," comes from the short film Hidden Inside Mountains, written and directed by Laurie Anderson.

These songs originated in a 1996 re-staging of Sam Shepard's Tooth of Crime and evolved over a decade into this dark, atmospheric disc. Among Burnett's co-conspirators are singer Sam Phillips, guitarist Marc Ribot, multi-instrumentalist Jon Brion, and Shepard himself.

Kronos’s career-long collaboration with minimalist pioneer Terry Riley continues with this work, written for the Quartet and pipa virtuoso Wu Man. The piece, "with its lullabies and entrancing Chinese songs and sweet disposition, brims with joy," writes the Los Angeles Times. Exclusive Nonesuch Store bonus download: “Tusen Tankar,” a traditional Scandinavian folk song.

Released in the UK in the fall of 2007, Orchestra Baobab’s Made in Dakar has landed on many British year-end best-of lists. Their first album in six years "tingles with rejuvenating glee, confirming their status as the jewel in the crown of African pop" (The Mirror, UK). Includes the exclusive Nonesuch Store bonus download, "Mamadou."

These 15 MP3s contain the complete music—over three hours—from all three Friday-night sets of the Trio's October 2006 residency at the Village Vanguard featured on their two-disc Live album, including tunes by Thelonious Monk, Benny Goodman, Paul Simon, and Radiohead.

Cooder’s trilogy exploring a historic/mythic/surreal California (Chavez Ravine, My Name Is Buddy) culminates with this remarkable 14-song album in which Cooder assumes the gruff yet chummy voice of Kash Buk, a hard-living, car-racing, guitar-playing man with a space-alien sidekick.