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Avant-Garde Icon Laurie Anderson Gets Her Hands Dirty on NTS Podcast “Digging with Flo”
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Laurie Anderson sat down with Flo Dill for the latest episode of NTS’s “Digging with Flo,” recorded in a greenhouse, with gardening involved. The conversation covers Anderson’s expansive career and creative life. Dill introduces her guest as “a polymathic, pioneering multimedia artist,” and the episode lives up to that billing. It is available to watch and hear now.
Anderson’s latest album, ‘Amelia,’ is out now on Nonesuch Records. The twenty-two-track record explores the final flight of aviator Amelia Earhart, with music and lyrics written entirely by Anderson. She is joined on the record by Filharmonie Brno, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, alongside Anohni, Marc Ribot, Martha Mooke, Nadia Sirota, and Kenny Wollesen, among others. It is the kind of album that expands what the format can do.
Coming up, Anderson heads to Knoxville at the end of March for the Big Ears Festival, then returns to Europe for a tour of her new piece “Republic of Love” with jazz band Sexmob starting in April. On top of that, Anderson and Sexmob’s live album ‘Let X=X’ arrives May 8 on Nonesuch Records, a triple-LP and double-CD set recorded during their 2023 tour together.
‘Let X=X’ spans twenty-three songs drawn from across Anderson’s career, performed in new arrangements, including a version of “Junior Dad” by Lou Reed and Metallica. Nonesuch Store orders include an exclusive autographed print from Anderson, while supplies last.