Dirty Projectors / David Longstreth / S t a r g a z e: Song Of The Earth (Vinyl 2xLP)

David Longstreth’s Song Of The Earth, a song cycle for orchestra and voices, is released via Nonesuch/New Amsterdam Records in the US and Transgressive Records for the rest of the world. Performed by Longstreth with his band Dirty Projectors - Felicia Douglass, Maia Friedman, Olga Bell - and the Berlin-based chamber orchestra s t a r g a z e, the album also features Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie), Steve Lacy, Patrick Shiroishi, Anastasia Coope, Tim Bernardes, Ayoni, Portraits of Tracy, and the author David Wallace-Wells.

Longstreth wrote the first draft of Song Of The Earth in six “manic” weeks for a commission arranged by s t a r g a z e, feeling disoriented, but also galvanised, by the moment he was in: the pandemic chaos, the “radical psychedelia” of new fatherhood, the novelty of writing for large ensemble. He then spent three years revising, rewriting, rearranging, and recording in studios and homes in the Netherlands, Los Angeles, and New York City.

Song Of The Earth marks Longstreth’s biggest-yet foray into the field of concert music. It received its US premiere in a March 2024 sold-out performance at Disney Hall in Los Angeles with the LA Philharmonic. Work-in-progress performances also took place between 2022 and 2024 at the Barbican in London, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, and Muziekgebouw Amsterdam.

1. Summer Light
   
2. Gimme Bread
   
3. At Home
   
4. Circled In Purple
   
5. Our Green Garden
   
6. Walk The Edge
7. Opposable Thumb
   
8. More Mania
   
9. Spiderweb At Water's Edge
   
10. Mallet Hocket
    
11. So Blue The Lake
    
12. Dancing On Our Eyelids
    
13. Same River Twice
    
14. Armfuls Of Flowers
15. Twin Aspens
    
16. Uninhabitable Earth, Paragraph One
    
17. Kyrie / About My Day
    
18. Shifting Shalestones
    
19. Appetite
20. Bank On
    
21. Paper Birches, Whole Scroll
    
22. Raven Ascends
    
23. Blue Of Dreaming
24. Raised Brow