Laurie Anderson

The ten plagues of Egypt were good for the Jews -- brought down by Moses, Aaron and
their boss Jehovah to help those long-ago Middle East good guys get out from under. But
when a British filmmaker got grant money to commission songs about said plagues as part of
her muddled re-enactment of the Exodus, what were her arty artistes to do? Make locusts
and boils sound like liberation? Instead, Brian Eno and Laurie Anderson escape i... More >