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Amelia Vinyl is by Laurie Anderson . Now available from Vinyl Records Manchester on sale in stock and in a brand new condition priced at only £27 + delivery. Nonesuch Records releases Laurie Andersons Amelia, the 2024 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipientamp39s first new album since 2018s Grammywinning Landfall. The record comprises 22 tracks about renowned female aviator Amelia Earharts tragic last flight.Anderson, who Pitchfork says, sees the future, but she starts by paying attention, wrote the music and lyrics for this subjective narrativepiece. On the album, she is joined by the Czech orchestra Filharmonie Brno, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, and Anohni,Gabriel Cabezas, Rob Moose, Ryan Kelly, Martha Mooke, Marc Ribot, Tony Scherr, Nadia Sirota, and Kenny Wolleson.Earhart was a passionate pioneer of early aviation, achieving fame as the first woman to cross the Atlantic, in 1932. Five years later, sheembarked on a flight around the world. Before she could complete the voyage, her plane disappeared without a trace it has never beenfound. The words used in Amelia are inspired by her pilot diaries, the telegrams she wrote to her husband, and my idea of what a womanflying around the world might think about, Anderson says. First premiered at Carnegie Hall in 2000, the updated piece was recentlyperformed across Europe.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 Minutesprofile, Anderson Cooper said she is a pioneer of the avantgarde, but … that doesnt begin to describe what she creates. Her work isntsold in galleries. 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, and the Guardian has called Anderson one of the great popular artists and storytellers of our time.Anderson released her first album with Nonesuch Records in 2001, the critically lauded Life on a String. Her subsequent releases on thelabel include Live in New York 2002, Homeland 2010, the soundtrack to Andersons acclaimed film Heart of a Dog 2015, and herGrammywinning collaboration with Kronos Quartet, Landfall 2018. Additionally, Andersons virtualreality film La Camera Insabbiata, with HsinChien 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 exhibitionto date, The Weather, at Washington, DCs Smithsonians Hirshhorn Museum of Modern Art and Looking into a Mirror Sideways atStockholms Moderna Museet, which was her largest European exhibition to date. Anderson recently toured with Sex Mob, performing her piece Let X61X. Earlier this year, she 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.Nonesuch released a remastered edition of Andersons landmark 1982 album Big Science in 2007 for its 25 th anniversary, followed by avinyl LP reissue in 2021 its beloved single, O Superman, became a surprise viral hit on TikTok earlier this year.. Vinyl Hit the Read More Button, for more track details and delivery information.