Laurie Anderson is releasing a new album about Amelia Earhart’s final flight on August 30, titled Amelia.
The first single, “Road to Mandalay,” gives a glimpse into Anderson’s interpretation of Earhart’s journey. The lyrics are drawn from Amelia’s pilot diaries, telegrams to her husband, and Anderson’s own thoughts on what it must have been like for a woman flying solo around the globe. To bring this vision to life, she’s joined forces with the Czech orchestra Filharmonie Brno led by Dennis Russell Davies, as well as artists like Anohni and Gabriel Cabezas.
It’s interesting how people can find inspiration in such different places.
This is Anderson’s first full album in six years since her award-winning record Landfall. In 2019, she worked with Tenzin Choegyal and Jesse Paris Smith on Songs From the Bardo, where she read translated passages from The Bardo Thodol. Earlier this year, she was honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Amelia‘s tracklist includes:
01 To Circle the World
02 I See Something Shining
03 Take-Off
04 Aloft
05 San Juan
06 Brazil
07 Crossing the Equator
08 The Badlands
09 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
