Remastered - 180 Gram Vinyl
Talking Head Leader + Legendary Producer/Ambient Composer = Genius
Eno was a key figure in the development of Talking Heads, producing some of their most innovative albums. This collaboration with head Head Byrne built on the sonic ground the two had already broken together via their well established working relationship. The pair couldn't have known how influential My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts would be in the next two decades.
Deconstructing the avant-funk of the Heads' Remain In Light, Byrne and Eno recorded polyrhythmic backing tracks similar to that effort. Instead of creating lyrics or melodies to lay over them, the duo turned to "found sounds" and voices, looping everything from radio talk show conversations to Muslim chants atop the rhythm bed, before anyone even knew what a sampler was. The subsequent impact on everything, from electronica to World music to whatever Bill Laswell is doing this week, was inestimable. The most important thing is that all this high-minded studio wizardry works on a very immediately satisfying level.
Track Listing:
LP-1
1 America Is Waiting
2 Mea Culpa
3 Regiment
4 Help Me Somebody
5 The Jezebel Spirit
6 Very, Very Hungry
7 Moonlight in Glory
8 The Carrier
9 A Secret Life
10 Come with Us
11 Mountain of Needles
LP-2
1 Pitch to Voltage
2 Two Against Three
3 Vocal Outtakes
4 New Feet
5 Defiant
6 Number 8 Mix
7 Solo Guitar with Tin Foil
8 Help Me Somebody (Drum Track)
9 Help Me Somebody (Vocal Track)
10 Help Me Somebody (Ambient Track)
11 A Secret Life (Drum Track)
12 A Secret Life (Vocal Track)
13 A Secret Life (Ambient Track)
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Nonesuch
Catalog No: 79894
Barcode: 0075597983555
Genre: Rock/Alternative
No of Discs: 2
Release Date: 3/2/2009
UPC: 075597983555