Laurie Anderson performed a pair of songs off her trailblazing 1982 album Big Science for the latest installment of NPR’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concerts.
For the 20-minute set from New York’s Canal Street Communications, Anderson delivered “Let x=x” and her classic “O, Superman,” with the musician accompanied on keyboards by Roma Baran, who performed on and co-produced Big Science.
“We put this out a very long time ago… just yesterday,” Anderson said of Big Science, which was remastered and reissued on red vinyl in April, the first vinyl...
For the 20-minute set from New York’s Canal Street Communications, Anderson delivered “Let x=x” and her classic “O, Superman,” with the musician accompanied on keyboards by Roma Baran, who performed on and co-produced Big Science.
“We put this out a very long time ago… just yesterday,” Anderson said of Big Science, which was remastered and reissued on red vinyl in April, the first vinyl...
- 5/20/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Update #2 (2/12): Black Pumas, Cage the Elephant and Annie Lennox have been added to the 34th Annual Tibet House Benefit Concert lineup.
“Our team is thrilled, not only to be a part of this esteemed event as the exclusive livestream partner, but also to flex our services as a top-to-bottom producer,” said Mary Kay Huse, CEO of Mandolin, which is co-producing the event. “We have been working around the clock alongside the Tibet House, from concepting creative and running production to managing artist booking and offering fundraising support. This partnership...
“Our team is thrilled, not only to be a part of this esteemed event as the exclusive livestream partner, but also to flex our services as a top-to-bottom producer,” said Mary Kay Huse, CEO of Mandolin, which is co-producing the event. “We have been working around the clock alongside the Tibet House, from concepting creative and running production to managing artist booking and offering fundraising support. This partnership...
- 2/12/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Laurie Anderson and Jesse Paris Smith support Tibetan artist Tenzin Choegyal on “Jigten,” the final track from the trio’s upcoming collaboration Songs From the Bardo. On the track, Choegyal sings text from the Bardo — the Tibetan Book of the Dead — over a contemplative backdrop of dranyen (a long-necked lute), orchestral strings, and piano. It’s a slow crescendo that suggests more joy than mourning in its beauty. Anderson speaks softly — “Awakened one, listen without distraction” — toward the end of the song. The album is due out September 27th.
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- 9/24/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Laurie Anderson reads from the Bardo Thodol, the Tibetan “Book of the Dead,” against a backdrop of flute, piano and percussion on “Lotus Born, No Need to Fear.” The track will appear on Songs From the Bardo, an upcoming release on Smithsonian Folkways, that highlights her 80-minute collaboration with Tibetan musician Tenzin Choegyal and composer and activist Jesse Paris Smith, due out September 27th.
The passage comes from the section on “Characteristics of Existence in the Intermediate State,” which narrates what you supposedly would feel when you realize you are dead,...
The passage comes from the section on “Characteristics of Existence in the Intermediate State,” which narrates what you supposedly would feel when you realize you are dead,...
- 7/25/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
The annual Tibet House benefit is a New York City musical tradition, always well-curated by composer and downtown arts ambassador emeritus Philip Glass. The organization’s mission is to preserve, protect, promote and advance Tibetan culture — and with its focus on peace (inner and outer), meditation, healing and happiness, that mission couldn’t be more timely. So the event, billed as the 32nd annual (give or take a few; no one seems to recall exactly), was especially welcome this year. And as usual, the music captured the spirit of the moment.
- 2/8/2019
- by Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
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