LAURIE ANDERSON About Her Late Husband’s Timeless Classic ‘WALK ON THE WILD SIDE’
16 February 2025
And the colored girls go doo,
do-doo, do-doo, do-do-doo.
R.I.P.
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Image: cover of Laurie‘s album ‘Strange Angels‘
Laurie Anderson
LAURIE ANDERSON About Her Late Husband LOU REED
11 December 2024
Eternal love.
Last August Laurie Anderson released her remarkable album Amelia.
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(Image on top: cover of her album ‘Strange Angels’)
LAURIE ANDERSON Released Her 9th LP – A Cinematic Tribute To The Legendary American Aviator ‘AMELIA’
New longplayers
3 September 2024
Avant-garde artist and Lou Reed’s widow LAURIE ANDERSON
just launched her 9th LP, her first in 6 years. It’s titled AMELIA.
Order info here.
Album artwork
The new album is centered around female pioneering aviator
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) who was the first woman to cross
the Atlantic Ocean. She went missing after a fatal flight in 1937.
Anderson: “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. Helping bring her musical vision to life are Czech orchestra Filharmonie Brno
with conductor Dennis Russell Davies, Anohni, Gabriel Cabezas, Rob Moose, Ryan Kelly,
Martha Mooke, Marc Ribot, Tony Scherr, Nadia Sirota, and Kenny Wolleson.”
Spin says: “On Amelia, Anderson resurrects this courageous woman and gives her breath, heart, and soul. It is impossible to hear this aerial ballet and walk away unaffected.”
TUTV: This is not an ordinary album structurally, sonically nor vocally. This record is the soundtrack to an Amelia documentary yet to be made. Anderson tells (short) stories about Amalia‘s adventures, only on the 3 songs featuring endearing voice Anohni and one other track there’s some singing. The album is a 34-minute symphony honoring a legendary aviator. Captivating experience it is. Give it a couple of spins and enjoy the flight, it’s an awesome one.
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LA: Instagram
LAURIE ANDERSON Has Her New Album ‘AMELIA’ Out In August – Hear First Single ‘ROAD TO MANDALEY
New striking strokes
21 June 2024
Avant-garde artist and Lou Reed widow LAURIE ANDERSON has revealed
details of her first LP in 6 years, her 9th one. It’s titled AMELIA and comes
out on August 30. More info here.
Album artwork
The new album is centered around pioneering aviator Amelia’s
Earhart’s who went missing after a fatal flight in 1937.
Anderson: “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. Helping bring her musical vision to life are Czech orchestra Filharmonie Brno
with conductor Dennis Russell Davies, Anohni, Gabriel Cabezas, Rob Moose, Ryan Kelly,
Martha Mooke, Marc Ribot, Tony Scherr, Nadia Sirota, and Kenny Wolleson.”
First single ROAD TO MANDALEY. A smoothly synth-trippy spoken word reflection.
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LA: Instagram
Hear The Previously Unreleased Funky-Groovy LOU REED Track ‘OPEN INVITATION’ Here
New striking strokes
18 March 2023
A book named The Art of the Straight Line: My Tai Chi was released this week.
It captures the energy of Lou Reed’s worlds of Tai Chi, music, and meditation. It was
edited by his widow Laurie Anderson, with Stephan Berwick, Bob Currie, and Scott Richman.
Along with the book comes a previously unreleased track titled OPEN INVITATION
from the sessions of his 1984 album New Sensations, one of his rare upbeat LPs.
Listen here to a funky-groovy Lou Reed.
LOU REED: Instagram – Facebook
Available via Amazon.
Happy 75 To Superwoman LAURIE ANDERSON
5 June 2022
Experimental musician LAURIE ANDERSON was born on 5 June 1947 in Illinois.
Happy 75 to the avant-garde artist who released 7 studio albums between
1984 and 2010, with Homeland as her most recent one. She collaborated
with countless artists too.
Laurie and late legend Lou Reed were partners for 21 years, they
married in 2008, five years before her husband passed away, in 2013.
Her best-known album Big Science was released 40 years ago (April 1982).
Three great Laurie Anderson moments.
– O SUPERMAN-
– LANGUAGE IS A VIRUS –
From her 1986 LP Home Of The Brave
– HANG ON TO YOUR EMOTIONS –
A Reed song from his 1996 album Set the Twilight Reeling
LAURIE ANDERSON Released Her Brilliant Debut Album ‘BIG SCIENCE’ 40 Years Ago Today
Back in time
19 April 2022
Artist: LAURIE ANDERSON
Who: Beloved avant-garde artist.
Lou Reed’s widow (74 now).
Active: 1969-present / 7 LPs
Anniversarsy album: BIG SCIENCE
Released: 19 April 1982 – 40 years ago today
AllMusic said: “There was a backlash against Laurie Anderson in “serious” musical and
artistic circles after the completely unexpected mainstream commercial success of her debut album, Big Science. (The eight-plus-minute single “O Superman” was a chart hit in England, unbelievably enough.) A fair listen to Big Science leaves the impression that jealousy must have been at the root of the reception because Big Science is in no way a commercial sellout. It’s a landmark release in the New York art scene of the ’80s, and quite possibly the best art rock album of the decade.” Score: 4.5/5.
TUTV: Big brilliant broadcast. Relevant then, now and in the future.
Single: Oh Superman…
Full album on Spotify…
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LAURIE ANDERSON: All Albums – Facebook
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Poster This! LAURIE ANDERSON 1989
ARCA Remixes LAURIE ANDERSON
New striking strokes
21 January 2022
Experimental musician LAURIE ANDERSON‘s breakthrough
album Big Science was reissued last year on vinyl for the
first time in 30 years (see below).
Venezuela musician/producer ARCA shows her love for
the late Lou Reed‘s widow and her music with her new
remix of Big Science‘s title track.
Pretty ghostly…
More info about the vinyl reissue right here.
