Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson (Chicago, 5 June 1947) is an American performance artist and composer. Although she played the violin from childhood, she received her formal training in the visual arts. Her work has incorporated graphics, lighting, sculpture, mime, slides, film, speech, music and many electronics, some of her own design. By 1976, her performances were featured prominently in museums and concert venues across Europe and North America.

In 1981, Anderson's single O Superman reached number two on the British pop charts. Until then music had been only one of the media employed in her work. Anderson has achieved greater visibility than most composers of her generation, her unexpected crossover into the popular domain brought her a degree of fame usually unavailable to avant-garde artists.


Big Science (1982)

1 From The Air 4:29
Bass [Farfisa] - Roma Baran
Drums - David Van Tieghem
Saxophone [Alto] - Bill Obrecht
Saxophone [Tenor], Clarinet - Peter Gordon
Vocals, Effects [Vocoder], Keyboards [Farfisa] - Laurie Anderson
2 Big Science 6:14
Harmonica [Glass] - Roma Baran
Percussion [Bottles] - Perry Hoberman
Percussion [Rototoms], Timpani - David Van Tieghem
Percussion [Sticks] - Laurie Anderson , Perry Hoberman , Roma Baran
Vocals, Synthesizer [Obxa], Percussion, Electronics - Laurie Anderson
3 Sweaters 2:18
Bagpipes - Rufus Harley
Drums - David Van Tieghem
Vocals, Violin [Violins] - Laurie Anderson
4 Walking & Falling 2:10
Vocals, Electronics - Laurie Anderson
5 Born, Never Asked 4:56
Marimba - David Van Tieghem
Percussion [Claps] - Laurie Anderson , Perry Hoberman , Roma Baran
Vocals, Violin [Violins], Keyboards - Laurie Anderson
6 O Superman (For Massenet) 8:21
Flute, Saxophone - Perry Hoberman
Keyboards [Farfisa], Synthesizer [Casio] - Roma Baran
Vocals, Effects [Vocoder], Electronics - Laurie Anderson
7 Example #22 2:59
Accordion - Roma Baran
Backing Vocals - Leanne Ungar , Perry Hoberman
Drums, Percussion - David Van Tieghem
Flute, Piccolo Flute - Perry Hoberman
Saxophone [Alto], Saxophone [Tenor] - Chuck Fisher
Saxophone [Bari], Clarinet, Bassoon, Clarinet [Bass] - Richard Cohen
Vocals, Violin, Keyboards [Farfisa] - Laurie Anderson
Whistling - Laurie Anderson , Roma Baran
8 Let X=X 3:51
Percussion [Claps] - Laurie Anderson , Perry Hoberman , Roma Baran
Percussion [Rototoms] - David Van Tieghem
Trombone [Trombones] - George Lewis
Vocals, Effects [Vocoder], Keyboards [Farfisa], Synthesizer [Obxa], Marimba - Laurie Anderson
9 It Tango 3:01
Percussion [Claps] - Laurie Anderson , Perry Hoberman , Roma Baran
Percussion [Rototoms] - David Van Tieghem
Vocals, Keyboards [Farfisa], Synthesizer [Obxa], Marimba - Laurie Anderson


m.a.n.d.y. & booka shade feat. laurie anderson

12" Single
01 - o superman [audiofly x remix]
02 - o superman [felix da housecat remix]
03 - o Superman [Robag's Pumper-Nikkel Remix]
04 - o superman [matt john remix]
05 - o superman [original mix]
06 - o superman [reboot's 20 cubans rework]



Mister Heartbreak (1983)

1
Sharkey's Day 7:47
Backing Vocals - Brenda Nelson* , Dolette McDonald , Michelle Cobbs
Bass - Bill Laswell
Drums - Anton Fier
Guitar - Adrian Belew
Percussion [Iya, Ikonkolo, Shekere, Double Bell] - Daniel Ponce
Vocals, Synthesizer [Synclavier], Violin, Whistle - Laurie Anderson
2
Langue D'Amour 6:18
Backing Vocals - Peter Gabriel
Vocals, Synthesizer [Synclavier],
Percussion [Electronic Conches], Effects [Vocoder] - Laurie Anderson
3
Gravity's Angel 6:06
Backing Vocals - Peter Gabriel
Bass - Bill Laswell
Guitar - Adrian Belew
Percussion [Plywood, Bowls], Electronic Drums [Simmons],
Drums - David Van Tieghem
Vocals, Synthesizer [Synclavier], Bells [Bell] - Laurie Anderson
4
Kokoku 7:08
Backing Vocals - Atsuko Yuma , Phoebe Snow
Backing Vocals [Japanese Chorus] - Connie Harvey , Janet Wright
Bass - Bill Laswell
Drums, Percussion [Woodblock] - Anton Fier
Vocals, Synthesizer [Synclavier], Percussion - Laurie Anderson
Zither [Kayagum] - Sang Won Park
5
Excellent Birds 3:17
Bass - Bill Laswell
Guitar - Nile Rodgers
Vocals, Synthesizer [Synclavier] - Laurie Anderson
Vocals, Synthesizer [Synclavier], Drum Programming [Linn Drum] - Peter Gabriel
6
Blue Lagoon 7:08
Bass - Bill Laswell
Guitar - Adrian Belew
Saxophone [Soprano] - Bill Blaber
Steel Drums, Percussion [Gato, Bamboo] - David Van Tieghem
Vocals, Synthesizer [Synclavier] - Laurie Anderson
7
Sharkey's Night 2:29
Vocals - William S. Burroughs




United States Live (1984)


Part One
1-1 Say Hello 5:01
1-2 Walk The Dog 6:45
1-3 Violin Solo 2:13
1-4 Closed Circuits (For Voice And Amplified Mic Stand) 6:03
1-5 For A Large And Changing Room 2:50
1-6 Pictures Of It (For Acoustic Tape Bow) 1:31
1-7 The Language Of The Future 8:02
1-8 Cartoon Song 1:12
1-9 Small Voice (For Speaker-In-Mouth) 2:03
1-10 Three Walking Songs (For Tape Bow Violin) 4:19
1-11 The Healing Horn 3:01
1-12 New Jersey Turnpike 11:19
1-13 So Happy Birthday 6:23
1-14 EngliSH 2:08
1-15 Dance Of Electricity 3:02
1-16 Three Songs For Paper, Film And Video 6:02
2-1 Sax Solo (For Tape Bow Violin) 0:55
2-2 Sax Duet 0:38
2-3 Born, Never Asked 5:16



Part Two
2-4 From The Air 2:46
2-5 Beginning French 2:16
2-6 O Superman 11:05
2-7 Talkshow 6:57
2-8 Frames For The Pictures 1:08
2-9 Democratic Way 1:41
2-10 Looking For You 1:19
2-11 Walking And Falling 1:21
2-12 Private Property 3:04
2-13 Neon Duet (For Violin And Neon Bow) 3:52
2-14 Let X=X 6:17
2-15 The Mailman's Nightmare 0:46
2-16 Difficult Listening Hour 3:10
2-17 Language Is A Virus From Outer Space 7:55
2-18 Reverb 0:26
2-19 If You Can't Talk About It, Point To It (For Ludwig Wittgenstein And Reverend Ike) 0:33
2-20 Violin Walk 2:44
2-21 City Song 3:34
2-22 Finnish Farmers 5:13




Part Three
3-1 Red Map 1:57
3-2 Hey Ah 3:50
3-3 Bagpipe Solo 3:17
3-4 Steven Weed 1:05
3-5 Time And A Half 2:14
3-6 Violin And A Tape 1:28
3-7 Example #22 2:33
3-8 Strike 2:11
3-9 False Documents 1:59
3-10 New York Social Life 3:32
3-12 A Curois Phenomenon 1:06
3-12 Yankee See 7:58
3-13 I Dreamed That I Had To Take A Test… 1:19
3-14 Running Dogs 0:38
3-15 Four, Three, Two, One 1:15
3-16 The Big Top 2:52
3-17 It Was Up In The Mountains 2:14
3-18 Odd Objects (For Light-In-Mouth) 4:03
3-19 Dr. Miller 5:18
3-20 Big Science 7:20
3-21 Big Science Reprise 1:47




Part Four
4-1 Cello Solo 2:44
4-2 It Tango 1:51
4-3 Blue Tango 9:38
4-4 Hothead (La Langue D'amour) 4:47
4-5 Stiff Neck 1:33
4-6 Telephone Song 1:34
4-7 Sweaters 3:58
4-8 We've Got Four Big Clocks (And They're All Ticking) 2:24
4-9 Song For Two Jims 2:56
4-10 Over The River 3:30
4-11 Mach 20 2:47
4-12 Rising Sun 3:25
4-13 The Visitors 3:01
4-14 The Stranger 1:57
4-15 Classified 5:25
4-16 Going Somewhere? 0:55
4-17 Fireworks 2:46
4-18 Dog Show 0:48
4-19 Lighting Out For The Territories 3:13

Recorded live during the world premiere of United States part 1-4 at Brooklyn Academy of music, February 7-10, 1983.
Discs packaged in jewel cases housed in a thick card slipcase.
Originally released as a 5xLP set.



Strange Angels (1987)

1 Strange Angels 3:51
2 Monkey's Paw 4:31
3 Coolsville 4:32
4 Ramon 5:03
5 Babydoll 3:38
6 Beautiful Red Dress 4:43
7 The Day The Devil 3:59
8 The Dream Before 3:02
9 My Eyes 5:27
10 Hiawatha 6:49

Artwork By - Robert Mapplethorpe
Bass - Peter Scherer (tracks: 3, 6)
Drums - Cyro Baptista (tracks: 6) , Joey Baron (tracks: 10) , Laurie Anderson (tracks: 3) , Sue Hadjopoulos (tracks: 1 to 3, 10)
Keyboards - Laurie Anderson (tracks: 2 to 5, 8 to 10) , Peter Scherer (tracks: 6, 10)
Producer, Vocals - Laurie Anderson
Vocals - Bobby McFerrin (tracks: 2, 4, 8)



Bright Red / Tightrope (1994)


1 Speechless 5:20
Bass - Ben Fenner
Temple Block, Gong - Cyro Baptista
2 Bright Red 3:12
Vocals - Arto Lindsay
3 The Puppet Motel 3:09
4 Speak My Language 3:38
Guitar - Jamie West-Oram
Triangle - Cyro Baptista
Violin - Laurie Anderson
5 Word Without End 2:47
Effects [Treatments] - Kevin Killen
6 Freefall 4:32
Effects [Drum Treatments] - Brian Eno
Guitar - Jamie West-Oram
Shaker - Neil Conti

Tightrope

7 Muddy River 3:02
Drums - Dougie Bowne
Effects [Treatments] - Kevin Killen
Loops - Brian Eno
Lyrics By [Additional Lyrics - The Owl And The Pussycat] - Edwin Lear
Violin - Laurie Anderson
8 Beautiful Pea Green Boat 4:20
9 Love Among The Sailors 2:49
10 Poison 3:47
Effects [Drum Treatments], Loops - Brian Eno
Guitar - Marc Ribot
11 In Our Sleep 2:31
Tambourine - Cyro Baptista
Vocals, Guitar, Lyrics By - Lou Reed
12 Night In Bagdad 3:23
Drums [Ceramic], Percussion [Tubes], Shaker, Triangle - Cyro Baptista
Keyboards - Peter Scherer
13 Tightrope 5:58
14 Same Time Tomorrow 3:51



The Ugly One With The Jewels

And Other Stories (1995)

1 The End Of The World 5:00
2 The Salesman 3:18
Gong - Cyro Baptista
3 The Night Flight From Houston 1:32
4 Word Of Mouth 4:48
5 The Soul Is A Bird 3:57
6 The Ouija Board 4:11
7 The Ugly One With The Jewels 5:06
8 The Geographic North Pole 5:22
9 John Lilly 3:34
10 The Rotowhirl 3:54
Drums - Joey Baron
11 On The Way To Jerusalem 1:20
12 The Hollywood Strangler 1:50
13 Maria Teresa Teresa Maria 5:43
Bass - Greg Cohen
Drums - Joey Baron
Guitar - Gerry Leonard
Keyboards - Brian Eno
14 Someone Else's Dream 2:25
Bass - Greg Cohen
15 White Lily 1:17
16 The Mysterious "J" 2:57
17 The Cultural Ambassador 6:47
18 Same Time Tomorrow 7:49
Surdo, Shaker - Cyro Baptista

A reading from Laurie Anderson's book "Stories From The Nerve Bible", recorded live at Saddler's Wells theatre, London.




Just The Music from The Puppet Motel (CD-Rom) 1995

Drums - Joey Baron
Guitar, Bass - Greg Cohen
Keyboards - Brian Eno
Shaker, Surdo - Cyro Baptista
Vocals - Laurie Anderson


Life On A String (2001)


1 One White Whale 2:03
Backing Vocals - John Kelly (7)
Percussion - Joey Baron
Vocals - Tom Nelis
Vocals, Keyboards - Laurie Anderson
2 The Island Where I Come From 4:07
Arco Bass - Greg Cohen
Bass, Organ - Skúli Sverrisson
Percussion - Mino Cinelu
Percussion, Handclaps - Danny Frankel
Saxophone - Chris Speed
Tape [Open Loop] - David Torn
Trumpet - Cuong Vu
Vocals - Laurie Anderson
3 Pieces And Parts 3:35
Bass - Skúli Sverrisson
Cello - Erik Friedlander
Keyboards, Mellotron, Accordion [Claviola] - Mitchell Froom
Violin - Eyvind Kang
Vocals, Keyboards - Laurie Anderson
4 Here With You 2:23
Bass - Skúli Sverrisson
Cello - Erik Friedlander
Violin - Laurie Anderson
5 Slip Away 5:50
Bass - Skúli Sverrisson
Cello - Erik Friedlander
Drums - Joey Baron
Huqin [Baritone Banhu] - Liheng
Keyboards, Percussion - Peter Scherer
Strings, Keyboards [Additional] - Jamshied Sharifi
Vocals, Keyboards - Laurie Anderson
6 My Compensation 2:28
Composed By, Percussion [Programming] - Skúli Sverrisson
Turntables, Tape [Samples] - Hal Willner
Vocals - Laurie Anderson
7 Dark Angel 3:24
Arranged By [Strings], Conductor, Keyboards - Van Dyke Parks
Cello - Fredrick Zlotkin* , Jeanne LeBlanc
Concertmaster - Elena Barere
Copyist - Dwight Mikkelsen
Double Bass [Bass] - Timothy Cobb*
Tape [Samples] - Hal Willner
Viola - Judith Wilmer* , Karen Dreyfus , Sue Pray , Vincent Lionti
Violin - Ann Leathers , Barry Finclair , Carol Webb , Ellen Payne , Enrico DiCecco* , Heidi Modr , Jan Mullen , Jean Ingram* , Joel Pitchon , Jonathan Dinklage , Ricky Sortomme*
Vocals - Laurie Anderson
8 Broken 3:19
Bass, Bass [High] - Skúli Sverrisson
Drums - Joey Baron
Keyboards - Peter Scherer
Mellotron, Electric Piano [Wurlitzer] - Mitchell Froom
Violin - Laurie Anderson
9 Washington Street 4:40
Bass - Skúli Sverrisson
Bells - Ben Rubin
Drums - Joey Baron
Guitar - Bill Frisell
Vocals, Keyboards, Violin - Laurie Anderson
10 Statue Of Liberty 4:25
Bass, Performer [Sounds] - Skúli Sverrisson
Cello - Erik Friedlander
Vocals, Keyboards, Violin, Gong - Laurie Anderson
11 One Beautiful Evening 5:05
Arranged By [Percussion] - Martin Brumbach
Bass, Performer [Sounds] - Skúli Sverrisson
Guitar - Lou Reed
Mellotron - Mitchell Froom
Percussion [Beats], Keyboards - Mocean Worker
Percussion [Box-o-toys] - Danny Frankel
Vocals - Laurie Anderson
12 Life On A String 2:58
Bass, Guitar [Bowed], Keyboards - Skúli Sverrisson
Keyboards - Peter Scherer
Keyboards, Percussion, Vocals - Laurie Anderson
Percussion - Vinicius Cantuaria*



Live At Town Hall New York City September 19-20, 2001

1.1 Here With You 3:14
1.2 Statue Of Liberty 4:21
1.3 Let X= X 6:42
1.4 Sweaters 2:17
1.5 My Compensation 2:30
1.6 Washington Street 5:11
1.7 Pieces And Prats 3:44
1.8 Strange Angels 4:56
1.9 Dark Angel 4:46
2.1 Wildebeests 4:39
2.2 One Beautiful Evening 2:41
2.3 Poison 4:43
2.4 Broken 3:38
2.5 Progress 3:32
2.6 Animals 3:12
2.7 Life On A String 3:11
2.8 Beginning French 2:04
2.9 O Superman (For Massenet) 8:55
2.10 Slip Away 5:35
2.11 White Lily 2:34
2.12 Puppet Motel 3:18
2.13 Love Among The Sailors 3:58
2.14 Coolsville 5:25

Bass, Concertina - Skúli Sverrisson
Drums, Electronic Drums - Jim Black
Keyboards, Sampler - Peter Scherer
Songwriter, Vocals, Violin, Keyboards - Laurie Anderson

Recorded live at Town Hall in New-York City, September 19-20, 2001.
Packaged in a trifold digipak.


Laurie Anderson & Lou Reed

Live in Venice15-06-2002

01 Intro Lou Reed
02 Intro Laurie Anderson
03 Halloween Parade
04 Mystic Child
05 Blue Lagoon
06 Poison
07 Progress
08 The Raven
09 The Wildbeasts
10 Ecstacy
11 Mad
12 Talking Book
13 Dark Angel
14 The Smile
15 Tripitina
16 The Imp Of Perverse
17 The Bells
18 A Story About A Story
19 Rock Minuet
20 Who Am I?


Happiness Tour 2003
The Queen's Hall
Edinburgh, Scotland
25th of April 2003

Happiness conceived and performed by Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson has dazzled and challenged audiences for over 20 years with her revolutionary stage works
and recordings. In her new solo piece, Happiness, Anderson pares down the high-tech gadgetry and reveals
a more intimate portrait, performing a storytelling montage of moments from her life
- from temporary jobs at McDonald's and on an Amish farm to a traumatic accident she suffered at age twelve.
Stories float throughout Happiness and images recur in different guises. Anderson is not looking for conclusions,
but for another way to look at the world.

... There seems no end to her inventiveness. During the show she puts a light bulb in her mouth
and dons a pair of spectacles made out of microphones, which pick up giant percussive echoes
with every rap to her head and gnash of her teeth. ...

Happiness, she says, is my way of looking at things that both interest and trouble me:
the evolution of behaviour, how we learn and what we remember, expectations, the meaning of justice
and the effects of increasing speed: coloured by the darker elements of doubt and fear.

and to create it she lived and worked with ordinary and unusual people -
living with an Amish family for a while, another time working in McDonalds

Lou Reed helped guide her: He said, Why don't you just play what you really mean?
So I decided that the stories had to lead, the music had to go back. So now there is music
with pitches and pulses. It just doesn't work if it is more like a song structure, more elaborate,
because I am interested in the melody of language and the conversation as jazz, really, says Anderson.

If you have all of the starts and stops, saying something twice or pausing, I like that very much,
I find it beautiful. So I try not to make the work that I do sound like it has punctuation.
It is a ramble, it jump cuts particularly. And I am very interested in that.

In uncertain times, we find ourselves living more intensely in the present and asking the questions
that have been lurking uncomfortably in the background, like what do we really believe in after all?

Disc 1

Disc 2




Burning Leaves - A Retrospective - Songs And Stories

Universitat der Kunste Konzertsaal, Berlin, Germany
2009-05-08
an audience recording from row 1 close to center
Disc 1
01 one of a kind Violin Viola Solo
02 The Lark - Homeland Tour
03 A few years ago ... Happiness Tour
04 I spent a lot of my childhood ... - a part of the story from - Happiness Tour
04 When I was 26 I decided to stay in bed ... - a part of the story from - Happiness Tour
05 With the stock market crashing ... mostly from Mambo and Bling - Homeland Tour
06 Maybe If I Fall - Homeland Tour
07 Hatchet Head - The Geographic North Pole - CD The Ugly One With The Jewels
08 Hey Ah - Uniited States I-IV part 3
09 The Ugly One With The Jewels - Nerve Bible Tour - and CD
Disc 2
10 Blue Lagoon ( a part of ) - United States I-IV part 4
11 Last summer I got a job ... Happiness Tour
12 Last spring I learned about a trip ... Happiness Tour
13 The Dream Before - in German - Natural History Tour
14 I want to tell you a story about a story - Happiness Tour
15 I live downtown Manhattan - The End Of The Moon Tour
16 one of a kind Violin Viola Solo
17 So finally here we are - mostly from Pictures and Things - Homeland Tour
18 one of a kind Violin Viola Solo