my life in the bush of ghosts
Between August 1979 and October 1980, David Byrne and Brian Eno worked together in studios on both coasts of the USA, perfecting their experimental, third world meets the first sample masterpiece, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Eno had become bored with new wave music and had turned his attention to African musicians such as Fela Kuti and King Sunny Ade and in particular, North African singing. Teaming up with David Byrne, with whom he’d produced Talking Heads albums, together they produced a radical (for it’s time) mixture of found sounds, radio voices and TV preacher sermons that sleeve note author, David Toop, suggests continues today in the sound of such acts as Public Enemy, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Goldie and 808 State. The cd is released on Nonesuch Records and is newly mastered with six additional tracks and a Quicktime movie of ‘Mea Culpa’ by Bruce Conner.