International Arts Initiatives & Vancouver New Music in association with grunt gallery will present HOMELAND conceived and performed by Laurie Anderson at The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Art on 18 October 2008. For priority seating: info@mundomundo.com
Laurie Anderson's HOMELAND is a series of songs and stories that create a poetic and political portrait of contemporary American culture. Conceived as one long piece of music, the stories and songs that make up HOMELAND are marked by a political urgency. They address the current climate of fear, obsession with information and security. The music, built on a foundation of groove electronics and featuring many new melodic forms with which Laurie has been experimenting, is truly revelatory. They are also - as with all of her work - personal and utterly unique.
"Laurie Anderson is a singer-songwriter of crushing poignancy - a minimalist painter of melancholy moods who addresses universal themes in the vernacular of the commonplace. - "Rolling Stonehttp://www.laurieanderson.com