On his weekly Celsius Drop show, dublab co-founder Frosty guides you through an exploration of the vast Future Roots music spectrum.

On this special episode we pay tribute to the wondrous creative visionary Laurie Anderson whose work has inspired the world so much over the years and continues to do so.

The show opens with a rare radio piece by Dolores Brandon titled Laurie Anderson: The Woman and her Music 1987. The program features her January 11, 1987 interview with Laurie Anderson alongside a densely layered audio collage of spoken word and music. Following Dolores’ audio piece, you’ll hear an interview Frosty conducted with Laurie Anderson on March 28, 2015 at the Big Ears Festival for RBMA Radio’s storied Fireside Chat series.

Laurie Anderson – The Woman and her Music 1987:

“Laurie Anderson, darling of the electronic audio, multimedia performance scene in the late 1980’s, was the perfect subject for me– an independent producer working at WBAI-FM RADIO in New York. My ambition then was to create long form audio-collage-style profiles of contemporary artists across a broad spectrum of disciplines; artists whose work fascinated me and spoke to issues of broad public concern. My approach was to  weave  segments taken from Anderson’s extensive recorded works of the time, place those  alongside  her own musings on that work as told to me in an in-depth one-on- one interview. The result— an audio portrait that takes the listener on a journey into the mind of Laurie Anderson, the Woman and her Art.” – Dolores Brandon

This program originally aired in 1987 on WBAI-FM, New York and KPFA-FM, San Francisco. You can read the interview highlight transcript here. Thanks to Dolores for generously sharing this audio document with dublab and to audio engineer Stephen Erickson who realized the final mix. Permission to rebroadcast all or part of this feature must be obtained by written permission of Dolores Brandon (Contact: brandon.dolores@gmail.com).

About Dolores Brandon:

As an independent radio producer Dolores Brandon created short and long form arts focused features. Her work was broadcast on NPR and Pacifica stations. From 1999-2007 she served as Executive Director for AIR (The Association of Independents in Radio). An archive of selected work can be accessed @TRACES. We also invite you to listen to Dolores’ illuminating Alice Coltrane interview in the dublab archive.

We send deep gratitude to Laurie Anderson for blessing us with her transcendent work over the years.