Laurie Anderson - Bright Red - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This newly re-mastered and expanded version of BIG SCIENCE includes liner notes from Anderson herself, a video clip for InchO Superman,Inch and the original b-side from her 110 Records single, the gleefully weird InchWalk the Dog.Inch

Lighthouse is for anyone who has experienced the loss of someone close. It is, above all else, a love story... This album was created from letters and journals written on a journey through grief. And while the inspiration for the album came from our dear friend Ashley, it's message is universal. This album as a whole represents a journey through grief that has been separated into 9 tracks. The music was composed by Grej (Gregory Harrison) in collaboration with Maureen. The concept is a marriage between classical and electronic genres that utilizes voice, piano, harmonium, synthesizer, and field recordings.

Songs from the Bardo begins with a bell ringing out once, twice, three times, as a ritualistic chant emerges from the dense silence. The collaborative composition by avant-garde icon Laurie Anderson, Tibetan multi-instrumentalist Tenzin Choegyal, and composer and activist Jesse Paris Smith is a guided journey through the visionary text of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, unfolding in an 80-minute ebb and flow of sound and words. Songs from the Bardo is a transporting experience, meant to draw the listener into the present moment and provide a framework for inner exploration. Anderson, Choegyal, and Smith fuse modern compositional techniques with the mystique of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy to make these visionary traditions more accessible to a new generation of listeners and to reveal the ancient wisdoms contained within.