Nonesuch Records releases Laurie Anderson’s Amelia, the 2024 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient's first new album since 2018’s Grammy-winning Landfall. The record comprises 22 tracks about renowned female aviator Amelia Earhart’s tragic last flight. Anderson, who Pitchfork says, ‘sees the future, but she starts by paying attention’, wrote the music and lyrics for this subjective narrative piece. On the album, she is joined by the Czech orchestra Filharmonie Brno, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, and Anohni, Gabriel Cabezas, Rob Moose, Ryan Kelly, Martha Mooke, Marc Ribot, Tony Scherr, Nadia Sirota, and Kenny Wolleson. Earhart was a passionate pioneer of early aviation, achieving fame as the first woman to cross the Atlantic, in 1932.

Five years later, she embarked on a flight around the world. Before she could complete the voyage, her plane disappeared without a trace; it has never been found. “The words used in Amelia are inspired by her pilot diaries, the telegrams she wrote to her husband, and my idea of what a woman flying around the world might think about,” Anderson says. First premiered at Carnegie Hall in 2000, the updated piece was recently performed across Europe.

Label
Nonesuch / Warner
Genre
Pop & Rock LP - SIDE A
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 (feat. ANOHNI)
LP - SIDE B
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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