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Nonesuch Records releases Let X=X, by Laurie Anderson with Sexmob. This triple-LP/double-CD set was recorded live during a 2023 tour by Anderson and the jazz band Sexmob Steven Bernstein and Briggan Krauss on brass, Kenny Wollesen on percussion, Douglas Wieselman on winds and guitar, and Tony Scherr on bass. Its cover and interior packaging feature paintings by Anderson. The album features 23 songs, including many favourites from throughout Andersons career, performed in new arrangements plus one by Lou Reed and Metallica, Junior Dad. Anderson and Sexmob play more US and international dates this spring and summer (details below).
The New York Times said Anderson and Sexmobs concert at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) wasnt a historical recreation of past recordings; Sexmobs sound is a beefier one than on Andersons albums. With musicians who can double on electric guitar and bass clarinet, its members offered a rich range of textural variation throughout the evening.
Laurie Anderson is one of Americas most renowned and daring creative pioneers. Her work, which encompasses music, visual art, poetry, film, and photography, has challenged and delighted audiences around the world for more than 40 years. In a recent 60 Minutes profile, Anderson Cooper said she is a pioneer of the avant-garde, but that doesnt begin to describe what she creates Its experienced by audiences who come to see her perform: singing, telling stories, and playing strange violins of her own invention she [blends] the beautiful and the bizarre, challenging audiences with homilies and humor. She blurs boundaries across music, theater, dance, and film. The Washington Post has said she doesnt just tell stories; she draws out every word with a kind of physical pleasure, tasting its flavor as she probes the everyday mysteries of life.
Anderson released her first album with Nonesuch Records, the critically lauded Life on a String, in 2001. Her subsequent releases on the label include Live in New York (2002); Homeland (2010); the soundtrack to her acclaimed film Heart of a Dog (2015); and her Grammy-winning collaboration with Kronos Quartet, Landfall (2018). Nonesuch released a re-mastered edition of Big Science in 2007 for its 25th anniversary, followed by a vinyl LP re-issue in 2021; the album includes Andersons beloved, surprise hit, song, O Superman, which also is featured on Let X=X. Her recent Nonesuch release was 2024s Amelia, about renowned female aviator Amelia Earharts tragic last flight.
Andersons virtual-reality film La Camera Insabbiata, with Hsin-Chien Huang, won the 2017 Venice Film Festival Award for Best VR Experience, and, in 2018, Skira Rizzoli published her book All the Things I Lost in the Flood: Essays on Pictures, Language and Code, the most comprehensive collection of her artwork to date. Recent exhibitions and installations of Andersons work include Habeas Corpus at New Yorks Park Avenue Armory; her largest exhibition to date, The Weather, at Washington, DCs Smithsonians Hirshhorn Museum of Modern Art; and Looking into a Mirror Sideways at Stockholms Moderna Museet, which was her largest European exhibition to date.
Laurie Anderson was awarded the 2024 Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication, along with Christopher Nolan and David Attenborough, and the International Astronomical Union named a minor planet in her honour: Asteroid 270588, Laurieanderson. That same year, she was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Laurie Anderson gets back to having a good time: with the jazz combo Sexmob, this enduring avant-gardist revisited vintage and recent songs with a grooving spirit. New York Times
[Anderson is] one of the great popular artists and storytellers of our time Guardian
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