Last month, producer, multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter David Longstreth announced the release of Song of the Earth, a song cycle for orchestra and voices performed by him with his band Dirty Projectors and Berlin-based experimental ensemble s t a r g a z e, and conducted by André de Ridder. The forthcoming Song of the Earth features a stellar cast of guest contributors including Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie), Steve Lacy, Patrick Shiroishi, Anastasia Coope, Tim Bernardes, Ayoni, Portraits of Tracy, and it also includes words by journalist David Wallace-Wells.

Following ‘Uninhabitable Earth, Paragraph One’, Longstreth is teasing the album again with a three-song suite from the album, ‘At Home’, ‘Circled in Purple’ and ‘Our Green Garden’. Of the suite, he says:

“Past reports of Dirty Projectors going full prog are greatly exaggerated; until now I’ve never released an album with a straight-up suite of songs. As the slashes in the title imply, this is a three-song suite. It’s just the way it happened. Consider it an entry in your ‘A Day in the Life’ / ‘Paranoid Android’ / ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ / ‘Sicko Mode’ category: a sprawling journey that feels like slipping into a dream. A kaleidoscopic river-of-consciousness.”

The suite is offered with an accompanying lyric video and you can watch it below.

Song of the Earth is out on April 4th through Transgressive Records (UK) and Nonesuch/New Amsterdam Records.