News & Reviews
- Friday, October 10, 2008
Nonesuch Events for the Weekend of October 10–12
Brad Mehldau and Chris Thile perform Bach at a Barack Obama benefit in NYC ... Adams and Rzewski works are on the program for an Obama benefit in Baltimore, while the Pittsburgh Symphony pairs Adams with Dvořák and the San Francisco Ballet brings Mark Morris's Joyride, with Adams music, to New York ... Laurie Anderson returns to Homeland after a trip to the Arctic ... Andriessen meets Kubrick when the Dresdner Sinfoniker pairs De Stijl with 2001 ... The Black Keys return to Akron ... David Byrne heads West with Eno songs, a white-clad band, and dancers ... Bill Frisell sets up shop at Yoshi's in Oakland with Russell Malone ... Philip Glass plays to the poetry of Leonard Cohen at the Sydney Opera House ... k.d. lang is back on tour in California ... The Magnetic Fields kick off their fall tour in Minneapolis ... Randy Newman plays the Midwest too ... Choreographer de Keersmaeker's Steve Reich Evening plays two nights in Aix-en-Provence ... and more ...
- Monday, October 6, 2008
Laurie Anderson in 2008 Disko Bay Expedition
Laurie Anderson is participating in Cape Farewell's 2008 Disko Bay Expedition, in which 40 artists, musicians and scientists travel to Greenland's Disko Bay area. Anderson joins fellow musicians Ryuichi Sakamoto, Feist, Martha Wainwright, and Robyn Hitchcock, as well as writers, architects, photographers, and oceanographers, in the project, which aims to draw attention to climate change. The expedition will visit Greenland's largest and fastest-moving glacier.
About this Album
For much of 2008, Laurie Anderson has been touring the world with her latest performance piece, Homeland. 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 disc comes in a plain white sleeve with a thumbnail of the instantly recognizable silhouette above printed on the label. An album of music from Homeland is due to be released by Nonesuch Records in 2009.
The single's B-side, "Behind the Screen," comes from the short film Hidden Inside Mountains, written and directed by Laurie Anderson. The film debuted in Japan at EXPO 2005 and was an official selection at the Locarno, Toronto, Edinburgh, Telluride, Montreal, Prague, and Tribeca film festivals. It is a film of short stories about nature, artifice, and dreams; its haunting music features violins, bells, dog barks, and melody as well as Anderson's signature electronic sounds.
Credits
MUSICIANS
Laurie Anderson, violin and keyboards (1, 2)
Peter Scherer, additional keyboards (1)
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Track 1 recorded by Charlie Campbell; mixed by Laurie Anderson
Track 2 from the film Hidden Inside Mountains; mixed by Mario McNulty
