Recommendation #01

.....Volume 2 begins Tuesday. Today and tomorrow I'll be stepping out of the past and sharing info on things that have caught my attention in the here and now.

.....As of this writing, npr.org is providing access to Laurie Anderson's as-yet unreleased new album, "HOMELAND", which I believe is out for sale June 22. At the moment you can listen to it track by track or in its entirety for free. On the left side of this page you'll find a link to npr.org. If you click on it you may want to give it a minute or so to load; their homepage is an enormous layout composed almost entirely of links. Once it's loaded, scroll down their left side about half way and click on the large word "music". You should have no trouble finding the link to "HOMELAND" once you're on the Music page.

.....This will be the first original album from Anderson since "LIFE ON A STRING" nearly ten years ago. She has been giving live performances all this time including a few that have been released. She's also made guest appearances on other people's recordings and contributed songs to tribute projects and other various artists' albums. And of course, music is only one medium of many in which she works. She's the artist in residence at NASA, the last I heard, and since one of the responsibilities of that position is determining the meaning of the position, that's got to be keeping her busy.

I do know that there were live shows in New York two years ago including one at the Rose Theater at Lincoln Center that went under the name "HOMELAND", although I don't know how much of that material overlaps the studio album. For more information, I'll be adding her official website to "Listen, Rinse, Repeat...", my list of links.