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Dirty Projectors/David Longstreth & S T A R G A Z E - Song Of The Earth Dirty Projectors/David Longstreth & S T A R G A Z E
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2 LP Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & s t a r g a ze announce their album ‘Song Of The Earth’, with the first single ‘Uninhabitable Earth, Paragraph One’. ‘Song Of The Earth’ is due April 4th 2025 via Transgressive for the world ex-US ( which goes through Nonesuch). Song of the Earth is performed by Longstreth with members of his band Dirty Projectors — Felicia Douglass, Maia Friedman, Olga Bell — and the Berlin-based chamber orchestra s t a r g a z e, the album also features Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie), Steve Lacy, Patrick Shiroishi, Anastasia Coope, Tim Bernardes, Ayoni, Portraits of Tracy, and the author David Wallace-Wells. Longstreth wrote the first draft in six manic weeks for a commission arranged by s t a r g a z e. He felt disoriented and also galvanized by the moment: the pandemic chaos, the ‘radical psychedelia’ of new fatherhood, the novelty of writing for large ensemble. Then he spent three years revising, rewriting, rearranging, and recording in studios and homes in the Netherlands, Los Angeles, and New York City. Song of the Earth marks Longstreth’s biggest-yet foray into the field of concert music. It received its US premiere in a March 2024 sold-out performance at Disney Hall in Los Angeles with the LA Philharmonic. Work-in-progress performances also took place between 2022 and 2024 at the Barbican in London, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, and Muziekgebouw Amsterdam. Just as Dirty Projectors’ Rise Above sounds nothing like Damaged — the Black Flag album upon which is based — Song of the Earth bears little resemblance to its namesake, Gustav Mahler’s 1908 song-poem Das Lied Von Der Erde. But Longstreth notes that “it is saturated with the Mahler work’s themes, feelings and spirit of dissolved contradiction.” David Longstreth is a Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, producer. He started the band Dirty Projectors, and is known for collaborations with Solange, Björk, Kanye West, and others. In the last two years, he has scored films: the independent feature Love Me (2025) and A24’s The Legend of Ochi, slated for wide theatrical release on 28 February 28 2025. He co-wrote and produced “My Name” with Kara Jackson and Ayha Simone for RedHot’s TRANSA compilation (released in November 2024), as well as songs with Kate Bollinger, Blake Mills, and Vance Joy. He has selectively toured the US with his TBA-d/lo series of in-progress material. The most recent Dirty Projectors release is 5 EPs (2020), a series of interlocking EPs showcasing members of the band. Dirty Projectors are Felicia Douglass, Maia Friedman, Olga Bell, and David Longstreth. s t a r g a z e is a European orchestral collective of contemporary musicians, an ever-evolving project marrying modern composition with alternative attitudes and sounds, working in innumerable collaborations with renowned artists and locations, continually closing redundant gaps between classical and popular music. s t a r g a z e has worked in the past with Terry Riley, John Cale, Julia Holter, Lee Ranaldo, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, and many others. André de Ridder’s stylistic versatility from Baroque to contemporary music makes him a much in demand conductor. He founded s t a r g a z e in 2013 and has recorded works by Max Richter, Bryce Dessner, and Jonny Greenwood among many others. de Ridder initiated the recording of Terry Riley’s In C on the album Africa Express Presents: Mali, with Malian musicians, Damon Albarn, and Brian Eno. 1 1 Summer Light 1 2 Gimme Bread 1 3 At Home 1 4 Circled in Purple 1 5 Our Green Garden 1 6 Walk the Edge 2 1 Opposable Thumb 2 2 More Mania 2 3 Spiderweb at Waters Edge 2 4 Mallet Hocket 2 5 So Blue the Lake 2 6 Dancing on our Eyelids 2 7 Same River Twice 2 8 Armfuls of Flowers 3 1 Twin Aspens 3 2 Uninhabitable Earth, Paragraph One 3 3 Kyrie / About My Day 3 4 Shifting Shalestones 3 5 Appetite 4 1 Bank On 4 2 Paper Birches, Whole Scroll 4 3 Raven Ascends 4 4 Blue of Dreaming 4 5 Raised Brow
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