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LAURIE ANDERSON: PRESS
For interview requests or inquiries regarding Laurie Anderson, please contact Brad Hampton at Canal Street Communications, brad@difficultmusic.com/212.431.1355. On Laurie Anderson:
"Laurie Anderson...has broken through and made some of the most interesting art of the late 20th Century...earning as she goes a reputation as one of the world's premiere performance artists."
"To devotees, Laurie Anderson is the most stimulating female artist on the planet. Confronted by her best work, it's almost possible to remove the word "female" from that description...pushing the barriers but always supremely musical, Anderson is manna for the heart, soul AND mind."
"Laurie Anderson is a singer-songwriter of crushing poignance - a minimalist painter of melancholy moods who addresses universal themes in the vernacular of the commonplace."
"Anderson continues to imbue her work with a singular perspective that is both haunting and timeless."
"[Laurie Anderson is] the reigning performance artist of her time."
"[Laurie Anderson's] tone has grown less droll and more elegiac, and what once seemed offhanded or oblique has turned chillingly prophetic....There was grief in the songs, but not despair. The songs acknowledged the worst and pondered where to go from here."
"[Laurie Anderson is] an acutely humane observer, finding warmth and humor in stories about the ordinary turned exotic."
"[Laurie Anderson's] music seems emblematic of the city: ambitious, insightful, humorous and always teeming with four or five parts that really donšt seem like they should fit together but do."
"[Anderson] has never achieved such a deep resonant chord as in The End of the Moon...a beautifully modulated series of vignettes, the stories are interspersed with Anderson's prettiest, and most mournful, violin solos."
"It's wry, witty, provocative, slyly inventive and hypnotic- Anderson, once again, at the top of her captivating form."
"...the whole performance felt like an uninterrupted melody. Her studied speech and violin playing were like currents upon which she could gracefully catch a ride anytime she wanted."
"It makes you feel as though the secrets of the universe are being whispered in your ear by a fallen angel who just might be a little tipsy."
"Laurie Anderson is a necessary artist and The End of the Moon is an important work for this moment in American culture, [it] is as touching as it is beautiful."
"Anderson tells us more about herself in Happiness than in any other work. But in doing so, she also tells us important things about ourselves and what we have all experienced over the past few months. In a voice that falls somewhere between speech and song, Anderson says what needs now to be said in exactly the way it can be best heard."
"Anderson has always been full of surprises. Happiness...is simply the latest and one of the most stimulating in a long line."
"[Anderson] is a master storyteller who uses the microphone as an instrument of intimacy, conspiracy and seduction....Anderson's best work has always had a deeply emotional undercurrent, projecting empathy as much as irony. This was particularly true of Happiness."
"[Happinessis] an insightful initiation into the Cult of Laurie Anderson."
"Anderson's search for Happinessis the theme of the piece, among the most brilliant and moving she has ever done."
"Happiness unfolds on stage with exquisite focus....With Happiness, the legendary composer, musician, poet, visual artist and electronics wizard emerges as a masterful storyteller."
"[Happiness] is a mesmerizing mix of musings, observations and stories." |
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