Electronic music pioneer says album is “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”
Laurie Anderson will return this summer with Amelia, her first new album in five years.
Out Aug. 30 via Nonesuch Records, Amelia was influenced by aviation legend Amelia Earhart, the first woman to cross the Atlantic who disappeared on her 1937 flight around the world. You can hear a first taste of the album, the meditative track “Road to Mandalay,” below.
“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 said in a statement.
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