We’re thrilled to share the Felicia Douglass (@feldou ) remix of Shifting Shalestones - a reimagining of the @dirtyprojectors & @davidlongstreth track on @transgressivehq , now layered with Arctic water sounds by @The_Listening_Planet 🌊
“I loved creating a layered soundscape with NATURE… It’s an honor to play a small part in giving love and care for the planet.” — Felicia Douglass 🌱
Listen & stream now; every listen generates royalties for NATURE’s conservation. Available to listen to now on all major DSPs, released via @SoundsRight with @MuseumfortheUN & @EarthPercent .
at 7:30pm on april 16th, 2026, at the long center for the arts, dirty projectors and the austin symphony will perform our 2025 album Song of the Earth
general sale begins this friday, 2/6, at 10am central, but a special batch of pre-sale tickets are going live tomorrow (wednesday) @ 10am CST —— details on well-tempered zealot substack
there are currently no concrete plans to sing the Song anywhere else on Earth — not new york, not london, not sydney, not berlin. but we’re doing it in austin, where the stars at night are big and bright, a mile or so from the old hideout theater on congress where i laptop-karaoked the getty address at sxsw 2005
now ya might suppose that whole darn algorithmic apparatus for cultural discovery is engineered to render something like Song of the Earth as hard to see as a black steer’s tuchus on a moonless night
but when we premiered it for 2,300 people at Disney Hall in LA two years ago, a lot of us saw a different world. there were feelings and sensations in that room that i didn’t have names for — round and big and slightly ungainly ones. it was a rush! it thrilled me. it made me feel so connected to other people
excited to see if it happens again
maia, olga, felicia and i will do the album in full with the symphony, and then play an acoustic band set of dirty projectors ‘classics.’ (thinking like, fucked for life / police story / that’s a lifestyle / irresponsible tune / cannibal resource -type-beat? message me requests … )
april 16th, 2026. long center for the arts. southern bank of the colorado river. 7:30pm. maybe i’ll see you there
los angeles: i’m excited to announce a residency at the @bluenotelosangeles , january 3rd and 4th 2026. two sets per night!
been playing a bunch with the dudes @crbear & @_k_pasta_ , and they’ll join me in what some are calling ‘dirty projectors (trio)’ (we might even have recorded a thing)
these shows are john-the-baptist’ing the piano era which , hark , is nigh upon us
so join us in ringing it in and ringing in, belatedly, another dizzy spin of our dirt clump around the local fireball!
links in bio and stories ! 📖
📷 @maiafffff
ANNOUNCING TRANSA LIVE AT THE GETTY CENTER IN LA SEPTEMBER 6TH
FREE WITH RSVP (link in bio) | flier by @bird_of_paradigm
Ever Present: TRANSA — A Celebration at the Getty Center
Join an all-star cast of artists from the project and beyond, who’ll perform music from TRAИƧA the album and more.
Featuring Ahya Simone, Cole Pulice, Teddy Geiger, Nina Keith, CLARITY, Green-House, Fashion Club, AV María, Heart Shaped, Portraits of Tracy, Noah Klein, Jodie Landau, Devendra Banhart + additional special guests. David Longstreth of Dirty Projectors will serve as the evening’s music director.
“It’s a privilege to feature this extraordinary project and celebrate the trans community alongside the Red Hot Organization’s inspiring legacy at the Getty, especially as our exhibitions right now are centered on expansive expressions of queer love,” said Sarah Cooper, Getty performance programs specialist. “Ever Present is a place to honor the voices and histories that are always with us in this diverse world, even if they are not always visible in the dominant narratives of our institutions.”
Guests will make their way through the museum, enjoying the sounds of Nina Keith's water avatar through an installation titled “Periphone.” On the garden terrace, André 3000’s TRAИƧA contribution will play against a backdrop of original visuals as audience members make their way past historic Red Hot materials including artwork and videos, before the evening concludes with a two-hour musical performance. ONE Archives—home to the world’s largest collection of LGBTQ+ materials—will also create a pop-up reading room celebrating trans and non-binary histories.
@ahyasimone@cole.pulice@teddygeiger@ninak3ith@ask4clarity@green_house1976@fashion.club.la@av.maria.maria@portraitsoftracy@earth__poems@jodielandau@devendrabanhart@davidlongstreth@dirtyprojectors@onearchivesusc@gettymuseum@sarahannecooper
today we are (surprise!) releasing Song of the Earth Instrumentals.
they say a song is a landscape, but if you add even a single voice it becomes a portrait. so we’re rewilding the meadows. for an album inspired by natural places, this is an organic development. Song of the Earth Without Us.
i love listening this way because it feels closer to the experience of dreaming. melody floats, harmony shimmers, rhythms swirl. words, those tethers into the hard world of discrete materials, are nowhere.
this is also a moment to recognize the incredible musicians and great folks in stargaze. scroll if you will this carousel and witness their warm concentration and deep bonhomie throughout the recording sessions in wisseloord, netherlands in the spring of 2022. this is their album too :)
here in the deepest embrace of summertime, i hope you’re somewhere with a light breeze and light dappling through leaves. i hope you’re managing to maintain a good grip on the things you love. and i hope you can smash the volume-up button on your barrel-shaped bluetooth speaker til it makes the loud annoying beep. please enjoy Song of the Earth Instrumentals !
all photos from the song of the earth recording sessions at wisseloord, netherlands, spring 2022, by marco borggreve, except (2-3) album cover image by @kingtuffy
DAVID LONGSTRETH - THE ION POD EP. 173
It’s a big day here at Ion HQ - we got to sit down with our longtime favorite, thee god, Dave Longstreth of Dirty Projectors! We talk about the early days the early shows, the Philly DIY scene, First Unitarian Church, playing with TV on the Radio & Man Man, laptop music live, the art of Pro Tools chaos, scoring The Legend of Ochi, working with A24 & making Song of the Earth, the romance + despair of New York over 15 years, Gen X “no” vs. Millennial “yes”, what indie rock was actually rebelling against, selling the Brooklyn aesthetic back to itself, rhythm and rejecting “the grid”, the revival of live music, dorm-room air guitar to Bitte Orca, music as mystical tool vs. marketing product, making art with your best friends, paying bouncers, Uke Ellington, Haverford College, and MUCH MORE!
‼️JUST ANNOUNCED: @davidlongstreth of @dirtyprojectors will join us for an AMA this ! Click the ‘Remind me’ prompt on the post to get a notification before the AMA begins, and check the link in the bio/story for more info🤘
song of the earth has been out for two weeks! the opinion i care about is … yours 💐💐💐 been very moved by friends & strangers reaching out to me in the last two weeks to tell me that they’re connecting with this album. and also — the reviews are in folks! ☺️ so this here’s a press round up
