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k.d. lang's 'makeover,' a new collection of classic dance remixes of some of her best-loved songs, made from 1992 to 2000, is due May 28, including on translucent turquoise vinyl! Pre-order now at smarturl.it/makeover

Nonesuch Store pre-orders include an exclusive, limited-edition print of the album cover (featuring a previously unseen 1995 portrait by David LaChapelle) signed by lang and a paper doll PDF set, designed by a fan—Katja Virtanen of Finland—to print out at home, featuring iconic looks from throughout her career.

"I had the idea of putting together a dance remix compilation, as I mused about how we built community in those days before the internet, mobile devices, and dating apps," lang says. "Those dance clubs were a key to a world, which was still called 'underground' in the '90s. I also surprised myself by finding that there was a cryptic, sort of secret zone in my career, that hadn’t been explored, overlooked even by me. Two of these tracks had even hit #1 on the dance charts!"

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Laurie Anderson's 1982 debut album, 'Big Science,' returns to vinyl for the first time in 30 years with a new red vinyl edition due April 9. Nonesuch Store pre-orders include an exclusive, limited-edition autographed print: smarturl.it/BigScience/officialstore

'Big Science' foresaw the future, mixing performance art, pop, and electronics, most hauntingly on the hit single, "O Superman." The vinyl includes the re-mastered album first released on CD for the 25th anniversary of 'Big Science' in 2007.

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‪@rhiannongiddens‬ pays homage to Bessie Smith with a cover of “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out” for Deezer’s Black History Month Sessions. The set, which she recorded with Francesco Turrisi, also includes a new take on “At the Purchaser’s Option,” from her album 'Freedom Highway': www.deezer.com/us/album/208151422

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Rhiannon Giddens' new album, 'They're Calling Me Home,' recorded with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, is due April 9 on Nonesuch Records and is available to pre-order at smarturl.it/theyrecallingmehome

The album was recorded during the COVID-19 lockdown in Ireland. The two expats found themselves drawn to and comforted by the music of their native and adoptive countries of America, Italy, and Ireland, which they recorded at a spare studio on a working farm outside of Dublin. The result is a twelve-song album that speaks to the longing for the comfort of home as well as the metaphorical call "home" of death.

Nonesuch Store pre-orders include a limited-edition, autographed print and an instant download of the song "Calling Me Home.”

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The Staves' first new album in six years, 'Good Woman,' is out now. "A beautiful and powerful record,” says NPR. "Their voices are just extraordinary together.” You can hear it and get it at smarturl.it/TheStavesGoodWoman

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‪@MandyPatinkinChannel‬ was on NPR’s quiz show 'Wait Wait Don't Tell Me,' answering the panel's hard-hitting questions with his wife Kathryn, talking TikTok, duetting with Mo Rocca, and reciting a certain line from 'The Princess Bride.' You can play along at www.nonesuch.com/journal/listen-mandy-patinkin-gue…

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"I try to keep people guessing a bit," Caroline Shaw tells BBC Radio 4's John Wilson on 'Front Row,' in discussing 'Narrow Sea,' her new album with So Percussion, Dawn Upshaw, and Gilbert Kalish. On BBC Radio 3's 'In Tune,' she tells presenter Sean Rafferty: "I love working with people who are curious about lots of different kinds of music and different ways of working."
• Front Row (@ ~12m in): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000rcq3
• In Tune (@ 1h33m in): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000rbtv

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It was 30 years ago: Steve Reich's album of The Four Sections and Music for Mallet, Instruments, Voices, and Organ was released on Nonesuch: smarturl.it/TheFourSections The former piece, written in 1987 and performed by London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, was "Reich’s most assured work of the decade,” said the New York Times. The latter, performed by Steve Reich and Musicians, is "an entrancingly crystalline piece,” said the Times.

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It was 35 years ago today: composer John Adams made his Nonesuch Records debut with the release of Harmonielehre, performed by San Francisco Symphony and conductor Edo de Waart. The New York Times has called Harmonielehre “a dazzling, whirling crystal ball of a piece in which Mr. Adams at once celebrates and parodies lush Romantic harmony.“ You can hear it here: smarturl.it/harmonielehre. Nonesuch has released more than two dozen Adams recordings since.

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Happy Allen Toussaint Day on what would have been the legendary singer, songwriter, and composer’s 83rd birthday!

The 2005 Our New Orleans benefit album, which opens with Allen Toussaint performing "Yes We Can Can," is out in an expanded edition and on vinyl January 29: smarturl.it/ourneworleans

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