Laurie Anderson has announced Amelia, her first album in six years, which will be out August 30 via Nonesuch. The album is about pilot Amelia Earhart’s tragic, final flight and features Czech orchestra Filharmonie Brno conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, and contributions from ANOHNI, Gabriel Cabezas, Rob Moose, Ryan Kelly, Martha Mooke, Marc Ribot, Tony Scherr, Nadia Sirota, and Kenny Wollesen.
“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 says. You can listen to “Road to Mandalay” from the album below.
Amelia:
1. To Circle the World
2. I See Something Shining
3. Take-off
4. Aloft
5. San Juan
6. Brazil
7. Crossing the Equator
8. The Badlands
9. Waves of Sand
10. The Letter
11. India And On Down to Australia
12. This Modern World
13. Flying at Night
14. The Word for Woman Here
15. Road to Mandalay
16. Broken Chronometers
17. Nothing But Silt
18. The Wrong Way
19. Fly Into the Sun
20. Howland Island
21. Radio
22. Lucky Dime