Brian Eno & David Byrne: My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
- Label: Virgin, 1981
- Bestellnummer: 7637894
- Erscheinungstermin: 28.4.2006
Weitere Ausgaben von My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
*** digitally remastered
- Gesamtverkaufsrang: 3208
- Verkaufsrang in CDs: 1538
Meisterwerk, Meilenstein, Pioniertat - "My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts" ist ein Album, das auch 25 Jahre nach seiner Erst-VÖ nicht die Spur an Reiz verloren hat. "Field Recordings", exotische Instrumente, Stimmen, Alltagsgeräusche, all das aufzunehmen und in Musik oder Sound-Collagen zu verpacken, das gab’s schon vorher - Pierre Schaeffer begann schon Ende der 40er mit der Entwicklung seiner "musique concrète". Aber nie zuvor (und eigentlich auch nie mehr danach) ist Musikern eine derart farbige und konsequente Umsetzung gelungen wie Brian Eno und Talking Heads-Mastermind David Byrne mit ihrer Kollaboration. Auf geradezu hypnotisierenden, Rhythmusflächen, eingespielt von u. a. Bill Laswell am Bass und Heads-Drummer Chris Frantz, entfalten sie eine komplett neue Klangwelt mit Samples von libanesischen Gebirgssängern, Radio-Talk Shows, Südstaaten-Priestern, ägyptischem Pop oder einer Teufelsaustreibung, werden unvereinbare Elemente zu einer Einheit kombiniert. Wild, spannend, sagenhaft. Mit sieben Bonus Tracks und einem neuen Schuber-Cover
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.”
Product-Information:
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.”
Rezensionen
C. Hammer in Audio 6/06: "Eine in mehrfacher Hinsicht weg- weisende Produktion: Wie der Groove-Guru Byrne und der Technik-Tüftler Eno Sprache, Dialekte als eigenständige Elemente behandelten, wie sie - ethnologisch bezugnehmend auf die "talking drums" der afrikanischen Volksmusiken oder der australischen Aborigines-Kultur - Rhythmen nicht mehr nur als Basis für einen "Song" verwendeten, sondern sie selbst zum Ereignis machten, das hatte man von weißen angloamerikanischen Musikern bis dato in dieser Weise nicht gehört."W. Andresen in stereoplay 6/06: "Die beiden Soundvisionäre experimentierten mit afrikanischen Rhythmen und Umwelt- und Technikgeräuschen - ein Festival der Grooves und Klangspiltter. Die Neuauflage wurde um 7 Tracks aus der Originalsession erweitert und unterstreicht die Klangviel- falt aus handgemachter Musik und Samples."
- Tracklisting
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 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
- 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