Just this spring, Laurie Anderson was honored with the 2024 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for her life's work, and now the iconic US artist has announced the release of a new album. It is entitled "Amelia", will be released via Nonesuch Records and is her first since "Landfall" in 2018, which was also awarded a Grammy the following year. "Amelia", the title of her new album, refers to the famous aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. On the album's 22 tracks, Anderson dedicates herself to her tragic last flight in 1937. Anderson, who according to Pitchfork "sees the future but first pays close attention to what surrounds her", wrote the music and lyrics for this subjective narrative work. On the album, she is accompanied by the Czech orchestra Filharmonie Brno under the direction of Dennis Russell Davies, as well as the artists Anohni, Gabriel Cabezas, Rob Moose, Ryan Kelly, Martha Mooke, Marc Ribot, Tony Scherr, Nadia Sirota and Kenny Wollesen. Earhart was a passionate pioneer of early aviation and achieved fame as the first woman to cross the Atlantic. that was in 1932 - and five years later she set off on a flight around the world. Her goal: to be the first person to circumnavigate the globe at the equator. It was to be a journey of no return, as her plane disappeared without a trace and was never found despite a gigantic search operation - 64 planes and 8 warships were involved in the largest in the history of aviation up to that point. "The words in 'Amelia' are inspired by her pilot diaries, the telegrams she wrote to her husband, and my idea of what a woman flying around the world thinks about," says Anderson. Fans of the artist will know that the project has been around for many years. It premiered at New York's Carnegie Hall back in 2000 and was most recently shown in an updated form at various venues in Europe. Laurie Anderson has been a creative pioneer for more than four decades and is considered one of America's best-known - and most courageous - contemporary artists for good reason. Her work, which encompasses music, visual art, poetry, film and photography, continues to challenge and inspire audiences worldwide. In a recent "60 Minutes" profile, Anderson Cooper said she is "a pioneer of the avant-garde, but ... that doesn't begin to describe what she creates. Her works are not sold in galleries. They are experienced by the audience that comes to her performances: she sings, tells stories and plays strange violins that she invented herself... She mixes the beautiful with the bizarre, challenging the audience with preaching and humor. She blurs the lines between music, theater, dance and film." The Washington Post noted that she "doesn't just tell stories, but draws out each word with almost physical pleasure, tasting what it tastes like as she explores the everyday mysteries of life." The Guardian simply calls Anderson "one of the great celebrated artists and storytellers of our time". Anderson released her first Nonesuch album, the critically acclaimed "Life on a String", in 2001, followed by "Live in New York" (2002), "Homeland" (2010), the soundtrack to Anderson's acclaimed film "Heart of a Dog" (2015) and her Grammy-winning collaboration with the Kronos Quartet "Landfall" (2018), among others. In addition, Anderson's virtual reality film "La Camera Insabbiata" with Hsin-Chien Huang won the prize in the "Best VR Experience" category at the 2017 Venice Film Festival. In 2018, Skira Rizzoli published her book "All the Things I Lost in the Flood: Essays on Pictures, Language and Code", the most comprehensive collection of her artworks to date. Recent exhibitions and installations of Anderson's work include "Habeas Corpus" at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, her largest exhibition to date, "The Weather" at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum of Modern Art in Washington, D.C., and her largest exhibition in Europe to date, "Looking into a Mirror Sideways at the Moderna Museet" in Stockholm. Most recently, Anderson toured with Sex Mob and presented her piece "Let X=X". Earlier this year, she received the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication 2024 together with Christopher Nolan and David Attenborough, and the International Astronomical Union named a minor planet in her honor: Asteroid 270588, Laurieanderson.