Heart of a Dog

Description

Music from Anderson's 2015 film inspired by her beloved late dog Lolabelle, who plays piano and paints with her fingers! Laurie Anderson has been working in the world of music for 30 years now and has not only made history with "O Superman." She is at least as well known worldwide for her works in visual arts, as a performance artist, composer, poet, filmmaker, and photographer. An extremely comprehensive and impressive body of work. "Heart Of A Dog" is the soundtrack to the film of the same name that Laurie Anderson produced at the request of the Franco-German television channel Arte. "Heart Of A Dog" is a work about joy and pain, memory and forgetting, and at its center is the lament of her beloved and recently deceased dog, Lolabelle. "Heart Of A Dog" contains all the audio from the film, composed of music and spoken text. In addition to the narrative of oral creations, which Laurie Anderson presents in her inimitable way, "Heart Of A Dog" includes excerpts from some of her musical works, such as The Lake and Flow from the album Homeland (2010), Beautiful Pea Green Boat from > Bright Red < (1994), Rhumba Club from >Life On A String< (2001), and excerpts from the album >Landfall< (2011), which she recorded with the Kronos Quartet. Also noteworthy is the last song in the film, "Running Time Around," which was written and recorded by her husband Lou Reed, who died in 2013. After being screened at the Telluride, Venice, Toronto, and San Sebastián film festivals, Heart Of A Dog was acclaimed by critics across the board. The New York Times called it "philosophically sophisticated" and an "emotionally charged meditation on death, love, art, and dogs," and New York magazine called it "the most moving and provocative film to see this year."