Monday, 9 March 2015

Brian Eno + David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (1981) {2006 Nonesuch Remaster}


Brian Eno + David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (1981) {2006 Nonesuch Remaster}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 378 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 142 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 125 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2006 Nonesuch Records / Warner | 79894-2
Avant-Garde / Electronic / Experimental / Alternative / Ambient


When the David Byrne / Brian Eno collaboration My Life in the Bush of Ghosts was first released in 1981, Rolling Stone called it “an undeniably awesome feat of tape editing and rhythmic ingenuity.” It was widely considered a watershed record for future genres from world music to electronica, and almost 25 years later, the influence of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is evident in music ranging from The Bomb Squad’s productions for Public Enemy to Moby, Kruder and Dorfmeister, and Goldie. Nonesuch reissued the album—remixed, remastered, and with seven bonus tracks—on its 25th anniversary, in 2006.

In keeping with the original spirit of the album, and in line with Creative Commons licenses, all the multitracks from two of the songs on the album will be available for download at bush-of-ghosts.com. Users will be able to remix the tracks and upload to the site, listen, and rate others remixes and upload videos they have made themselves. The site will also feature archival press from the original album release, essays, photos from the original sessions, polaroids taken by David Byrne and a video made by Bruce Conner for the song "Mea Culpa" which is also included on the CD itself.

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is inspired by Byrne’s and Eno’s shared love of African pop, and their particular fascination with the music of 1970s West Africa. In addition to playing by Byrne and Eno, the album incorporates a variety of “found” voices: radio talk-show hosts, Lebanese mountain singers, preachers, exorcism ceremonies, Muslim chanting, and Egyptian pop, among others. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts also includes the contributions of eleven other musicians, including Bill Laswell, Tim Wright, David van Tieghem, and the Talking Heads’ Chris Frantz.

Byrne’s and Eno’s explanations of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts could easily be descriptions of records released two decades later and considered groundbreaking for theirtime. Eno says, “It's almost collage music, like grafting a piece of one culture onto a piece of another onto a piece of another, and trying to make them work as a coherent musical idea, and also trying to make something you can dance to.”

Byrne further elucidates the recording process: “At that time there were no samplers, so the found vocals were inserted into the music by trial and error. We’d have two tape machines playing simultaneously, one containing the track and the other the vocal and, if the gods willed, which they often seemed to, there would be a serendipity, the vocal and the track would at least seem to feel like they belonged together, and it would be a ‘take.’ It was all ‘played” and very seat-of-the-pants. There was none of the incremental tweaking and time-correcting that is possible with modern samplers and computers, so throwing the vocals against the tracks was in our case almost a performance.”

Personnel:
Brian Eno and David Byrne, guitars, basses, synthesizers, drums, percussions, found objects

John Cooksey, drums (4)
Chris Frantz, drums (3)
Dennis Keeley, bodhran, (2)
Mingo Lewis, bata, sticks (5, 8)
Prairie Prince, can, bass drum (5, 8)
Jose Rossy, congas, agong-gong (7)
Steve Scales, congas, metals (4)
David van Tieghem, drums, percussion (1, 3)
Busta Jones, bass (3)
Bill Laswell, bass (1)
Tim Wright, click bass (1)
Rooks on track 4 courtesy April Potts, Eglingham Hall

tracklist:
01. America Is Waiting
02. Mea Culpa
03. Regiment
04. Help Me Somebody
05. The Jezebel Spirit
06. Very, Very Hungry
07. Moonlight In Glory
08. The Carrier
09. A Secret Life
10. Come With Us
11. Mountain Of Needles
12. Pitch To Voltage
13. Two Against Three
14. Vocal Outtakes
15. New Feet
16. Defiant
17. Number 8 Mix
18. Solo Guitar With Tin Foil

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