Album artwork for Landfall by Kronos Quartet

Nonesuch Records releases Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet’s Landfall.

The piece, which was inspired by Anderson’s experience of Hurricane Sandy, is the first collaboration between the iconic storyteller / musician and the groundbreaking string quartet, who perform together on the recording. Landfall juxtaposes lush electronics and strings with Anderson’s powerful descriptions of loss, from water-logged pianos to disappearing animal species to Dutch karaoke bars. Kronos Quartet and Laurie Anderson have performed Landfall at commissioning presenters Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Adelaide Festival, Barbican Centre, Montclair State University, Perth International Arts Festival, Stanford Live, and the University of Texas at Austin, among other venues. The New York Times said the piece’s presentation at Brooklyn Academy of Music ‘set the auditorium awash in elegiac string sounds and postmillennial gloom. Performed by the composer and the tirelessly innovative Kronos Quartet, the work, written in New York during that epic storm, often resembled the flotsam bobbing on the receding floodwaters, with poignant snippets and small treasures.’

Kronos Quartet

Landfall

Nonesuch
Album artwork for Landfall by Kronos Quartet
LPx2

$32.99

140 gram vinyl. Includes download code.

Released 02/16/2018Catalog Number

A 564164

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Album artwork for Landfall by Kronos Quartet
CD

$18.99

Released 02/16/2018Catalog Number

CD 564164

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Kronos Quartet

Landfall

Nonesuch
Album artwork for Landfall by Kronos Quartet
LPx2

$32.99

140 gram vinyl. Includes download code.

Released 02/16/2018Catalog Number

A 564164

Learn more
Album artwork for Landfall by Kronos Quartet
CD

$18.99

Released 02/16/2018Catalog Number

CD 564164

Learn more

Nonesuch Records releases Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet’s Landfall.

The piece, which was inspired by Anderson’s experience of Hurricane Sandy, is the first collaboration between the iconic storyteller / musician and the groundbreaking string quartet, who perform together on the recording. Landfall juxtaposes lush electronics and strings with Anderson’s powerful descriptions of loss, from water-logged pianos to disappearing animal species to Dutch karaoke bars. Kronos Quartet and Laurie Anderson have performed Landfall at commissioning presenters Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Adelaide Festival, Barbican Centre, Montclair State University, Perth International Arts Festival, Stanford Live, and the University of Texas at Austin, among other venues. The New York Times said the piece’s presentation at Brooklyn Academy of Music ‘set the auditorium awash in elegiac string sounds and postmillennial gloom. Performed by the composer and the tirelessly innovative Kronos Quartet, the work, written in New York during that epic storm, often resembled the flotsam bobbing on the receding floodwaters, with poignant snippets and small treasures.’