Track Listing
Click tracks with speaker icon to listen| 1.01 | Here with You | 3:14 |
| 1.02 | Statue of Liberty | 4:21 |
| 1.03 | Let X=X | 6:42 |
| 1.04 | Sweaters | 2:17 |
| 1.05 | My Compensation | 2:30 |
| 1.06 | Washington Street | 5:11 |
| 1.07 | Pieces and Parts | 3:44 |
| 1.08 | Strange Angels | 5:56 |
| 1.09 | Dark Angel | 4:46 |
| 2.01 | Wildebeests | 4:39 |
| 2.02 | One Beautiful Evening | 2:41 |
| 2.03 | Poison | 4:43 |
| 2.04 | Broken | 3:38 |
| 2.05 | Progress | 3:32 |
| 2.06 | Animals | 3:12 |
| 2.07 | Life on a String | 3:11 |
| 2.08 | Beginning French | 2:04 |
| 2.09 | O Superman | 8:55 |
| 2.10 | Slip Away | 5:35 |
| 2.11 | White Lily | 2:34 |
| 2.12 | Puppet Motel | 3:18 |
| 2.13 | Love Among the Sailors | 3:58 |
| 2.14 | Coolsville | 5:25 |
News & Reviews
- Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed to Curate Two-Week Festival at Sydney Opera House
Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed will curate Vivid LIVE, a two-week festival at Sydney Opera House celebrating the world’s best contemporary artists and cultural interpreters, from May 27 to June 11. The primary focus of the festival will be on exploration through improvisation and collaboration. “For me," says Anderson, "the point is to present a lot of things that you wouldn’t normally go to but gives people the chance to jump off their street."
- Friday, February 19, 2010
Georgia Straight: Laurie Anderson's "Delusion" Among Her Best, "Smart, Funny, Emotionally Engaging, and Flat-Out Beautiful"
Laurie Anderson unveiled her latest multimedia piece, Delusion, at the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre this week as part of the 2010 Cultural Olympiad. "Delusion ranks with Anderson’s best," says the Georgia Straight. It is, above all, "smart, funny, emotionally engaging, and flat-out beautiful—in short, everything you’d expect from an artist of Anderson’s stature and reputation."
About this Album
“She sang about lover’s quarrels, angels, wanderlust, and New York … The songs didn’t promise solace, only clear observations and new questions ... [W]hat once seemed off-handed or oblique had turned chillingly prophetic.” —New York Times
The performances on Laurie Anderson's 2002 two-CD live recording, Live in New York, were recorded in New York City at Town Hall on September 19 and 20, 2001, just a week after the September 11 attacks on the city. The dates were part of an intimate US tour by Anderson in support of her critically acclaimed Nonesuch debut, Life on a String; it was her first tour with a band.
The two-disc set features ten songs from Life on a String as well as new arrangements of such vintage Anderson works as “Let X=X,” “Strange Angels,” and “O Superman.” Anderson, who performs on violin, keyboards, and effects, was joined on stage by Skúli Sverrisson (bass), Peter Scherer (keyboards), and Jim Black (drums).
Credits
MUSICIANS
Laurie Anderson, vocals, violin, keyboards
Skúli Sverrisson, bass, concertina
Jim Black, drums, electronic percussion
Peter Scherer, keyboards, samplers
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Laurie Anderson
Musical Director: Skuli Sverrisson
Recorded September 19-20, 2001 at Town Hall, New York City, by Jody Elff and Adam Blackburn (Effanel Music)
Assistant Engineer: Brandon Karp (Effanel Music)
Mixed by Jody Elff
Mastered by Robert C. Ludwig at Gateway Mastering Studios, Portland, ME
Production Manager: Bill Berger
MIDI and keyboard tech: Rick Van Benschotten
All songs written by Laurie Anderson and published by Difficult Music (BMI), except: “My Compensation,” lyrics by Laurie Anderson and music by Laurie Anderson/Skúli Sverrisson, published by Difficult Music (BMI); “Poison” and “Puppet Motel,” written by Laurie Anderson/Brian Eno and published by Difficult Music (BMI)/Upala Music (BMI).
Design by John Gall
Executive Producer: David Bither
