The need for this music arose in a few days in Fall of 2020, when T was pregnant with our daughter. The fires in California were insane, as they are right now.
Song of the Earth started as 'a song cycle' that frontman David Longstreth composed for the Berlin-based chamber orchestra s t a r g a z e.
As a preview, Dirty Projectors have shared 'Uninhabitable Earth, Paragraph One,' Longstreth's reading of Wallace-Wells' bestseller of the same name.
The full project was recorded with s t a r g a z e in those same cities, featuring contributions from Mount Eerie, Steve Lacy, and others.
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