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Music, chat and Laurie Anderson

Pioneering musician and artist Laurie Anderson joins Stuart Maconie to share her 'First, Last and Everything' and discuss her forthcoming new album.

Stuart Maconie presents solo, with a feast of great music and chat.

Today he hears from pioneering experimental musician and artist Laurie Anderson. Laurie joins Stuart to discuss her latest album and share her 'First, Last and Everything' - that’s the first record she owned, the most recent one she's enjoyed and the record that means ‘everything’ to her.

Laurie – whose work encompasses music, visual and performance art, photography, poetry and film - became widely known outside the art world in 1981 with her single ‘O Superman’, which reached number two in the UK singles chart and appeared on her debut studio album ‘Big Science’. She is also known for her use of technology in art, developing creative tools such as the ‘Talking Stick’ which she has used in her own work. She was appointed NASA's first artist-in-residence in 2002 and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award earlier this year. Laurie’s latest album ‘Amelia’ is inspired by renowned female aviator Amelia Earhart and her last flight.

Laurie tells Stuart more about her forthcoming new album and shares some of her own music memories, including roller-skating to Mr Big Stuff by Jean Knight. They also discuss Laurie’s early single ‘O Superman’ recently becoming a viral hit on Tik Tok and why William Basinski's work ‘The Disintegration Loops’ is so important to her.

Also on the show... long-running feature ‘The Chain’, which gives listeners the chance to pick a track that links in some way to the last. The list now contains over 8000 songs.

With a selection of music old and new to get the weekend started.

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Last on

Sat 20 Jul 2024 08:00
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Arctic Monkeys

    Crying Lightning

    • CD SINGLE.
    • DOMINO.
    • 1.

  • Waxahatchee

    Ice Cold

    • ANTI-.

  • New Order

    Round & Round

    • Factory.

  • Mandrill

    Fat City Strut

    • Just Outside Of Town.
    • Universal Records.
    • 5.

  • Dog Unit

    Consistent Effort

    • At Â鶹ԼÅÄ.
    • Brace Yourself Records.

  • Stereolab

    Wow and Flutter

    • WOW AND FLUTTER.
    • Duophonic.

  • Joy Lovejoy

    In Orbit

  • SOPHIE

    Reason Why (feat. Kim Petras & BC Kingdom)

    • Transgressive Records.

  • Chris Cohen

    Sunever

    • Paint a Room.
    • Hardly Art.

  • America

    Ventura Highway

    • Country Roads (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • James Blake & Lil Yachty

    Midnight

    • Quality Control.

  • Fontaines D.C.

    Favourite (6 Music Session, 15th July 2024)

  • Sub Sub

    Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use) (feat. Melanie Williams)

    • Universal.

  • Self Esteem & Moonchild Sanelly

    Big Man

    • Polydor.

  • Prince

    Alphabet Street

  • China Crisis

    Wishful Thinking

    • Diary: A Collection.
    • EMI Gold.
    • 16.

  • Bicep

    CHROMA 004 ROLA

    • Ninja Tune.

  • Tame Impala

    The Less I Know The Better

    • Fiction / Polydor.

  • Laurie Anderson

    Road To Mandalay

    • Amelia.
    • Nonesuch Records.

  • Jean Knight

    Mr Big Stuff

    • Stax Greatest Hits (Various Artists).
    • Stax.

  • Brian Carpenter’s Ghost Train Orchestra & Kronos Quartet

    The Viking of 6th Avenue

    • Songs & Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog.
    • Cantaloupe Music.
    • 9.

  • William Basinski

    Disintegration Loops (1.1 Excerpt II)

    • Music from The Comedy, A Film by Rick Alverson.
    • Jagjaguwar.
    • 15.

  • Thundercat

    Show You The Way (feat. Michael McDonald & Kenny Loggins)

    • Drunk.
    • Brainfeeder.

Broadcast

  • Sat 20 Jul 2024 08:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 6 Music