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First Listen: Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet, 'Landfall'

With a dream-like blend of electronics, acoustic instruments, high-tech software and voice overs, Anderson ruminates on loss and the meaning behind a killer storm.
Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet's <em>Landfall </em>is out Feb. 16 via Nonesuch.

Hurricane Sandy was a horrific natural disaster that no one would care to relive, except perhaps for the brilliant polymath . In , her 70-minute multimedia piece featuring the , she doesn't revisit the storm so much as ruminate – sometimes with dry wit – on the idea of how we handle

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