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Music : My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
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Rating: 
- A collaboration made in heaven
This marriage of Eno & Byrne and the concept of taking non-music stuff off amerikan radio and stringing it to music may not sound too promising but it is astonishingly listenable. 'Jezebel Spirit' and 'America is Waiting' are mesmeric and this album rocks with rhythm and strangeness.
The call to prayer tracks and 'Help me Somebody' - spiritual stuff. It's also a great insight into the variety of stuff on the radio if you care to go looking for it, not that I do, too much hassle. You know, when you're skipping through the channels and suddeny get someone saying "All dormice are made out of marzipan" or similar and think "Whaaa?". The fact that they have done the spadework and stitched all of the highlights together for us is genius. I promise that you will be suitably impressed.
Rating:
- CLASSIC AHEAD OF ITS TIME
EVERYONE SHOULD OWN THIS RECORDING,AMAZING VOCAL, TECHNICAL ARRANGMENTS,GREAT PERCUSSION,AND GUITAR PLAYING FROM BYRNE.
ENO ADDING HIS GENIUS TO THE RECORDINGS THEY REALLY GELLED ON THIS PRODUCTION.THEY SHOULD COLLABORATE AGAIN WITH PETER GABRIEL.
Rating: - Groundbreaking brilliance...
Few records can justifiably claim to be "groundbreaking", but here's one - a mesmerising example of two highly creative musicians at the peak of their powers pushing their ideas out to the edge. Using the infectious poly-rhythms and jerky, high tension riffs & vocals that permeated their brilliantly successful collaboration on Talking Heads' "Remain in Light" as their starting point, they mix-in ingenious looped samples and insidious guitar, synthesizer & percussion back-beats to produce something completely unique. Not only like nothing else around at the time but, like all truly great albums, one that hasn't aged with time. Often sounding more like an inventive slice of modern "electronica/dance" it's almost impossible to believe that it was produced over twenty years ago... and, of course, a great deal of what's followed since can be traced back to this amazing record.
Darker and far more "left-field" than "Remain in Light", "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" is no easy listen, but with repeat playing it becomes equally addictive... a worthy successor and a wholly successful exploration of just how far Brian Eno's & David Byrne's complex fusions of electronica & rock could be taken. File under "essential, timeless and under-rated slice of musical genius".
Rating: - Excellent
Ethnoelectroartspacefunk classic from 1981, composed with peerless care and good taste. Rippling percussion and high energy funk on the first side, spacious but punchy ambience on the second, drawing influences and samples from Africa, Arabia and New York throughout. Pithy too, the raw but clean production suiting the fat free music to a tee.
Rating: - WATERSHED.
I bought this album when it first came out in 1980 i bought all the Talking Heads stuff then, Remain in Light was a revelation to me and i listened to it often while i painted.
I fiirst got into the Talking Heads when they appeared at Leeds Polytechnic, i actually had'nt heard of them (1978) at that point. And there they were the whole crew in the cantine at the Poly. It was an incredible night with David Byrne doing his jerkey oddball introspective puppet movements.
I listened to Bush of Ghosts endlessly and realised how clever the combination of ethnic singing and elctro funk could be. From very haunting Muslim chanting to odd sound bite quips like 'I made a mistake' repeated like a endless acid flashback to Jezebel Spirit which needs to be played loud and becomes a Voodoo hypno trap.I believe Moby is a direct antecedent to this album but they did it first !
I spent three months listening to this album and painting during the recess and it changed the way i thought and painted. If you hav'nt heard this album your not complete.
Paolo
- A collaboration made in heavenThis marriage of Eno & Byrne and the concept of taking non-music stuff off amerikan radio and stringing it to music may not sound too promising but it is astonishingly listenable. 'Jezebel Spirit' and 'America is Waiting' are mesmeric and this album rocks with rhythm and strangeness.
The call to prayer tracks and 'Help me Somebody' - spiritual stuff. It's also a great insight into the variety of stuff on the radio if you care to go looking for it, not that I do, too much hassle. You know, when you're skipping through the channels and suddeny get someone saying "All dormice are made out of marzipan" or similar and think "Whaaa?". The fact that they have done the spadework and stitched all of the highlights together for us is genius. I promise that you will be suitably impressed.
Rating:
- CLASSIC AHEAD OF ITS TIMEEVERYONE SHOULD OWN THIS RECORDING,AMAZING VOCAL, TECHNICAL ARRANGMENTS,GREAT PERCUSSION,AND GUITAR PLAYING FROM BYRNE.
ENO ADDING HIS GENIUS TO THE RECORDINGS THEY REALLY GELLED ON THIS PRODUCTION.THEY SHOULD COLLABORATE AGAIN WITH PETER GABRIEL.
Rating:
- Groundbreaking brilliance...Few records can justifiably claim to be "groundbreaking", but here's one - a mesmerising example of two highly creative musicians at the peak of their powers pushing their ideas out to the edge. Using the infectious poly-rhythms and jerky, high tension riffs & vocals that permeated their brilliantly successful collaboration on Talking Heads' "Remain in Light" as their starting point, they mix-in ingenious looped samples and insidious guitar, synthesizer & percussion back-beats to produce something completely unique. Not only like nothing else around at the time but, like all truly great albums, one that hasn't aged with time. Often sounding more like an inventive slice of modern "electronica/dance" it's almost impossible to believe that it was produced over twenty years ago... and, of course, a great deal of what's followed since can be traced back to this amazing record.
Darker and far more "left-field" than "Remain in Light", "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" is no easy listen, but with repeat playing it becomes equally addictive... a worthy successor and a wholly successful exploration of just how far Brian Eno's & David Byrne's complex fusions of electronica & rock could be taken. File under "essential, timeless and under-rated slice of musical genius".
Rating:
- ExcellentEthnoelectroartspacefunk classic from 1981, composed with peerless care and good taste. Rippling percussion and high energy funk on the first side, spacious but punchy ambience on the second, drawing influences and samples from Africa, Arabia and New York throughout. Pithy too, the raw but clean production suiting the fat free music to a tee.
Rating:
- WATERSHED.I bought this album when it first came out in 1980 i bought all the Talking Heads stuff then, Remain in Light was a revelation to me and i listened to it often while i painted.
I fiirst got into the Talking Heads when they appeared at Leeds Polytechnic, i actually had'nt heard of them (1978) at that point. And there they were the whole crew in the cantine at the Poly. It was an incredible night with David Byrne doing his jerkey oddball introspective puppet movements.
I listened to Bush of Ghosts endlessly and realised how clever the combination of ethnic singing and elctro funk could be. From very haunting Muslim chanting to odd sound bite quips like 'I made a mistake' repeated like a endless acid flashback to Jezebel Spirit which needs to be played loud and becomes a Voodoo hypno trap.I believe Moby is a direct antecedent to this album but they did it first !
I spent three months listening to this album and painting during the recess and it changed the way i thought and painted. If you hav'nt heard this album your not complete.
Paolo