{"product_id":"laurie-anderson-sexmob-let-x-x-live","title":"Laurie Anderson \u0026 Sexmob - LET X=X (LIVE)","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘Laurie Anderson gets back to having a good time: with the jazz combo Sexmob, this enduring avant-gardist revisited vintage and recent songs with a grooving spirit.’ – \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘[Anderson is] one of the great popular artists and storytellers of our time’ – \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNonesuch Records releases \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLet X=X\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, by \u003cstrong\u003eLaurie Anderson\u003c\/strong\u003e with \u003cstrong\u003eSexmob\u003c\/strong\u003e. This triple-LP\/double-CD set was recorded live during a 2023 tour by Anderson and the jazz band Sexmob – \u003cstrong\u003eSteven Bernstein\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eBriggan Krauss\u003c\/strong\u003e on brass, \u003cstrong\u003eKenny Wollesen\u003c\/strong\u003e on percussion, \u003cstrong\u003eDouglas Wieselman\u003c\/strong\u003e on winds and guitar, and \u003cstrong\u003eTony Scherr\u003c\/strong\u003e on bass. Its cover and interior packaging feature paintings by Anderson. The album features 23 songs, including many favourites from throughout Anderson’s career, performed in new arrangements – plus one by Lou Reed and Metallica, ‘Junior Dad’. Anderson and Sexmob play more US and international dates this spring and summer (details below).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003esaid Anderson and Sexmob’s concert at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) ‘wasn’t a historical recreation of past recordings; Sexmob’s sound is a beefier one than on Anderson’s albums. With musicians who can double on electric guitar and bass clarinet, its members offered a rich range of textural variation throughout the evening.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLaurie Anderson is one of America’s most renowned – and daring – creative pioneers. Her work, which encompasses music, visual art, poetry, film, and photography, has challenged and delighted audiences around the world for more than 40 years. In a recent \u003cem\u003e60 Minutes \u003c\/em\u003eprofile, Anderson Cooper said she ‘is a pioneer of the avant-garde, but... that doesn’t begin to describe what she creates... It’s experienced by audiences who come to see her perform: singing, telling stories, and playing strange violins of her own invention... she [blends] the beautiful and the bizarre, challenging audiences with homilies and humor. She blurs boundaries across music, theater, dance, and film.’ The \u003cem\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/em\u003ehas said she ‘doesn’t just tell stories; she draws out every word with a kind of physical pleasure, tasting its flavor as she probes the everyday mysteries of life.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnderson released her first album with Nonesuch Records, the critically lauded \u003cem\u003eLife on a String\u003c\/em\u003e, in 2001. Her subsequent releases on the label include \u003cem\u003eLive in New York\u003c\/em\u003e (2002); \u003cem\u003eHomeland\u003c\/em\u003e (2010); the soundtrack to her acclaimed film \u003cem\u003eHeart of a Dog\u003c\/em\u003e (2015); and her Grammy-winning collaboration with Kronos Quartet, \u003cem\u003eLandfall\u003c\/em\u003e (2018). Nonesuch released a re-mastered edition of \u003cem\u003eBig Science\u003c\/em\u003e in 2007 for its 25th anniversary, followed by a vinyl LP re-issue in 2021; the album includes Anderson’s beloved, surprise hit, song, ‘O Superman’, which also is featured on \u003cem\u003eLet X=X.\u003c\/em\u003e Her recent Nonesuch release was 2024’s \u003cem\u003eAmelia\u003c\/em\u003e, about renowned female aviator Amelia Earhart’s tragic last flight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnderson’s virtual-reality film \u003cem\u003eLa Camera Insabbiata\u003c\/em\u003e, with Hsin-Chien Huang, won the 2017 Venice Film Festival Award for Best VR Experience, and, in 2018, Skira Rizzoli published her book \u003cem\u003eAll the Things I Lost in the Flood: Essays on Pictures, Language and Code\u003c\/em\u003e, the most comprehensive collection of her artwork to date. Recent exhibitions and installations of Anderson’s work include \u003cem\u003eHabeas Corpus \u003c\/em\u003eat New York’s Park Avenue Armory; her largest exhibition to date, \u003cem\u003eThe Weather\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eat Washington, DC’s Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum of Modern Art; and \u003cem\u003eLooking into a Mirror Sideways \u003c\/em\u003eat Stockholm’s Moderna Museet, which was her largest European exhibition to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLaurie Anderson was awarded the 2024 Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication, along with Christopher Nolan and David Attenborough, and the International Astronomical Union named a minor planet in her honour: Asteroid 270588, Laurieanderson. That same year, she was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NONESUCH","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":53760967868743,"sku":"TRI-72860","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black Vinyl","offer_id":53760967901511,"sku":"TRI-72861","price":52.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/9779\/5655\/files\/3d6c71a18318f6459f8b3e945591ec23.jpg?v=1776861386","url":"https:\/\/towerrecords.ie\/products\/laurie-anderson-sexmob-let-x-x-live","provider":"Tower Records Dublin Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}