Song of the Earth is performed by singer/songwriter/composer/multi-instrumentalist, David Longstreth with members of his band Dirty Projectors-Felicia Douglass, Maia Friedman, Olga Bell-and the Berlin-based chamber orchestra s t a r g a z e. The album also features Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie), Steve Lacy, Patrick Shiroishi, Anastasia Coope, Tim Bernardes, Ayoni, Portraits of Tracy, and the author David Wallace-Wells. Longstreth wrote the first draft of Song of the Earth in six "manic" weeks for a commission arranged by s t a r g a z e, feeling disoriented, but also galvanized, by the moment he was in: the pandemic chaos, the "radical psychedelia" of new fatherhood, the novelty of writing for large ensemble. He then spent three years revising, rewriting, rearranging, and recording in studios and homes in the Netherlands, Los Angeles, and New York City. Song of the Earth marks Longstreth's biggest-yet foray into the field of concert music. It received it's US premiere in a March 2024 sold-out performance at Disney Hall in Los Angeles with the LA Philharmonic. Work-in-progress performances also took place between 2022 and 2024 at the Barbican in London, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, and Muziekgebouw Amsterdam.

1 Summer Light - By Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & Stargaze
2 Gimme Bread - By Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & Stargaze
3 At Home - By Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & Stargaze
4 Circled in Purple - By Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & Stargaze
5 Our Green Garden - By Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & Stargaze
6 Walk the Edge - By Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & Stargaze
7 Opposable Thumb - By Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & Stargaze
8 More Mania - By Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & Stargaze
9 Spiderweb at Water's Edge - By Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & Stargaze
10 Mallet Hocket - By Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & Stargaze
11 So Blue the Lake - By Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & Stargaze
12 Dancing on Our Eyelids - By Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & Stargaze
13 Same River Twice - By Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & Stargaze
14 Armfuls of Flowers - By Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & Stargaze
15 Twin Aspens - By Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & Stargaze
16 Uninhabitable Earth, Paragraph One - By Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & Stargaze
17 Kyrie/About My Day - By Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & Stargaze
18 Shifting Shalestones - By Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & Stargaze
19 Appetite - By Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & Stargaze
20 Bank on - By Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & Stargaze
21 Paper Birches, Whole Scroll - By Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & Stargaze
22 Raven Ascends - By Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & Stargaze
23 Blue of Dreaming - By Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & Stargaze
24 Raised Brow - By Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & Stargaze