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Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Sally Potter will release her new album ANATOMY this Friday, May 2 via Bella Union. Already earning accolades from The Needle Drop, Noir, NPR “Into Music”, The Line Of Best Fit, Guitar Girl Magazine, Audio Fuzz and more, the album contains shimmers of Billie Holiday’s empathy and wisdom, Patti Smith’s poetry and Laurie Anderson’s meticulous euphoria: all artists that have inspired Sally’s music in one way or another.
Today she shares album opener and title track “Anatomy” alongside an official video debuted with FLOOD Magazine. With breathtaking piano flourishes set to Sally’s signature lyrical poetry, the song sets out the basic premise of the album as a whole; the simple truth that we are not separate from the earth, or from each other. She shares, “We are intimately connected on every level, for without the earth and our relationship to it, humans cannot survive. The earth is, in that sense, our body: “She is my anatomy; without her I cease to be.” An arrangement of instruments that originate from different cultures (balalaika, accordion, piano, cello, electric guitar and bodhran) echo this cry of love that is a celebration as well as a warning.”
Watch / Share: “Anatomy” Video
ANATOMY leaves us not with a sense of impending doom, but a reinvigorated mandate to search for answers within ourselves. “I don’t think there is, at the moment, a more urgent theme to tackle, poetically or lyrically, than the fate of the earth itself for future generations,” says Sally. But these songs are not about making people feel guilty, or afraid—but rather, calling us to wake up to where we are, look each other in the eye, grieve together for what's already lost and somehow find the ground on which we can start to be hopeful.”
Sally Potter has been exploring themes of human connectedness, morality, and mortality in a career that has spanned four decades, encompassing works as varied as the speculative historical epic Orlando and the acerbically witty comedy-drama The Party. In addition to her film work, Sally is a musician and singer-songwriter, a parallel vocation that began with improvised performances and concerts in the 1970s and 1980s and continued through composing music for the soundtracks of many of her critically lauded films. Her second album, ANATOMY is an entirely new affair for the multi-disciplinary artist—an eclectic and boldly visionary collection of songs that seek to tackle our species’ symbiotic relationship with the Earth, all while reflecting on the emotional threads that intertwine us all as people who share this planet.
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