In 2022, Dirty Projectors frontman David Longstreth premiered a song cycle called Song of the Earth at Hamburg, Germany’s Elbphilharmonie . He composed the piece for the Berlin-based chamber orchestra Stargaze , and Longstreth went on to perform it at Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw , London’s Barbican Hall , and Los Angeles’ Walt Disney Concert Hall . All the while, Longstreth kept tweaking the piece, rewriting, rearranging, and, ultimately, recording it in the Netherlands, Los Angeles, and New York.