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Released
  
June 22, 2010

Homeland (2010)
  
(TBA)

Release date
  
22 June 2010

Length
  
66:00

Artist
  
Laurie Anderson

Label
  
Nonesuch Records Inc.

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Recorded
  
2007–2010 at Masterdisk, NYC

Genres
  
Experimental music, Pop music, Avant-garde, Avant-garde music

Producers
  
Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Roma Baran

Similar
  
Laurie Anderson albums, Pop music albums

Homeland is the eighth studio album by Laurie Anderson. It is her first album of new material since 2001's Life on a String.

Contents

The record was produced by Anderson, Lou Reed and Roma Baran. Anderson has been touring the project since late 2007, and the album was slated for release since as early as 2008. Because the project kept changing in form, the release was pushed back several times. The final release was a two-disc set consisting of a CD of music and a DVD.

The song "Only an Expert" was released as a 12" vinyl single on May 18, 2010. A song titled "Pictures and Things" was the single's B-side.

Track listing

  1. "Transitory Life" (6:52)
  2. "My Right Eye" (5:01)
  3. "Thinking of You" (4:12)
  4. "Strange Perfumes" (4:46)
  5. "Only an Expert" (7:26)
  6. "Falling" (3:19)
  7. "Another Day in America" (11:24)
  8. "Bodies in Motion" (7:10)
  9. "Dark Time in the Revolution" (5:19)
  10. "The Lake" (5:39)
  11. "The Beginning of Memory" (2:45)
  12. "Flow" (2:15)

DVD

  1. "Homeland: The Story of the Lark" (41:00)
  2. "Laurie's Violin" (7:00)

Personnel

  • Laurie Anderson – vocals, keyboards, percussion, violin (on tracks 3, 7, 12), radio (9)
  • Peter Scherer – keyboards
  • Rob Burger – keyboards (2-5, 8, 9), orchestron (2-3, 8), accordion (3, 4, 9, 10), marxophone (4)
  • Eyvind Kang – viola
  • Tuvan group Chirgilchin – vocals (1, 11), igil (1)
  • Lou Reed – additional percussion (2), guitar (5)
  • Antony Hegarty – vocals (4), background vocals (7)
  • Shahzad Ismaily – percussion (4)
  • Kieran Hebden – keyboards (5)
  • Omar Hakim – drums (5)
  • Skúli Sverrisson – bass (7, 9), guitar (8)
  • Ben Witman – percussion and drums (7)
  • John Zorn – alto saxophone (8, 11)
  • Lolabelle – piano (8)
  • Joey Baron – drums (9)
  • Mario J. McNulty – percussion (11)
  • Produced by Laurie Anderson with Lou Reed and Roma Baran
  • Engineered by Laurie Anderson, Pat Dillett, Mario J. McNulty, and Marc Urselli
  • Mixed by Mario J. McNulty
  • Mastered by Scott Hull at Masterdisk, New York, NY


    • DVD

  • Directed by Braden King
  • Produced by Katie Stern Truckstop Media

    • Reception

    Nina Power, previewing the album in The Wire magazine, claimed that Homeland "reminds us why Anderson, now in her sixties, is the (modulated) voice of America's conscience."

    Margaret Wappler of The Los Angeles Times wrote of the album, "'Homeland' isn't so much an album as it is a poetic capturing of the still moments of a restless mind".

    Charts

    Album

    Songs

    1Transitory Life6:53
    2My Right Eye5:00
    3Thinking of You4:14

    References

    Homeland (Laurie Anderson album) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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