Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet Landfall 2LP Grammy Winner 1st Pressing 2018
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Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet Landfall 2LP Grammy Winner 1st Pressing 2018 Poster Insert
Landfall: On February 10, 2019, at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards, held in Los Angeles, Anderson and Kronos Quartet's Landfall won the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance. It was Anderson's first collaboration with Kronos Quartet and her first Grammy award, and was the second Grammy for Kronos. Inspired by her experience of Hurricane Sandy, Nonesuch Records said, "Landfall juxtaposes lush electronics and traditional strings by Kronos with Anderson's powerful descriptions of loss, from water-logged pianos to disappearing animal species to Dutch karaoke bars."
Laurel Philips Anderson (born June 5, 1947), known as Laurie Anderson, is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician, and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects.[4] Initially trained in violin and sculpting, Anderson pursued a variety of performance art projects in New Yorkduring the 1970s, focusing particularly on language, technology, and visual imagery. Anderson is a pioneer in electronic music and has invented several devices that she has used in her recordings and performance art shows
The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco. It has been in existence with a rotating membership of musicians for almost 50 years. The quartet covers a very broad range of musical genres, including contemporary classical music. More than 900 works have been written for it.
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