Another Eno related tune? OK, since you've asked nicely. And slightly rare, in that it was included on the original pressing of My Life In The Bush of Ghosts , but was missing from subsequent pressings, due in part to protests by over-zealous religious nutcases who thought that the dynamic duo (David Byrne & Brian Eno, in case you didn't know) were being somehow disrespectful. Enjoy. Download Qu'ran by Brian Eno & David Byrne mp3
Words by Jacob Barron To my knowledge, no artist has risen to the challenge I issued in last year's edition of Soundtracking: Your Thanksgiving to create music endemic to this most gluttonous of holidays. There's apparently now a best Thanksgiving movie, at least according to this person , but still no Thanksgiving album. And so we gather again this year, to give thanks, to catch up with family members, to politely ignore their occasionally racist remarks, and to check out the surprisingly numerous albums suited to any and all of these [...]
Only one record to start the week off with: Four Tet's 5th long player, 'There Is Love In You' is in your local vinyl emporium now. Heavily influenced by his recent residency at Plastic People, it follows in the same vein as 2008's 'Ringer' EP: A 4/4 pulse is highly prominent throughout this most refined of electronic LP's that once again features the now signature sound of Kieran Hebden; A computerised record that has a very live feel. To early for album of the year? decade? century? millennium? [...]
LIFE IS LONG Brian Eno & David Byrne Everything That Happens Will Happen Today Todo Mundo : 2008 [Buy It] October before last, I spent a few weeks camping my way through California. At the end of this week, I'm preparing to do it again. Funny how life repeats like that - funny odd, not funny ha-ha. For me, to be aware of this repetition is to experience a complex, even contradictory, mixture of feelings - it's a comfort, and a curse. The idea of reliving a positive [...]
In part 1 of this post, I discussed the polyrhythmic music of the Yoruba people of west Africa. Here, I will reveal what led me to seek out that music in the first place. By 1980, I was sold on the music of Talking Heads. Three albums into their career, they had shown me enough that I wanted to know what was going to happen next. And at that point, the band seemingly broke up. Officially, they were on hiatus, with the promise to return, but we've all heard that before. So, I was nervous. The [...]
Listening to Oh, sequels. They unilaterally suck, right? David Byrne and Brian Eno have sidestepped the whole thorny issue by following-up their legendary 1981 collagist-funk masterpiece My Life in the Bush of Ghosts with something completely different in tone — namely, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today , an optimistic, brimming-over pop record with duties neatly split between Eno (music) and Byrne (words + singing). Done exclusively via email, the results have their own quirky, laid-back charm. Available via download on August 18th. Also released this week: Byrne's Big Love: [...]
Major airports are our little cities: intermediaries between the destination and the method of travel where infrastructure, culture, and commerce meet. In every curve and line a purpose, a direction, a puzzle piece of people moving design. Sit there . Walk here . Watch this . Stay calm . Be still . And like cities, airports are unique. Some bustle with electric human tension, ultramodern and efficient, while others are subdued and worn, watching people come and go by the quiet dozen. Some are peppered [...]
THE STOKED AMERICAN Out Hud Let Us Never Speak of it Again Kranky : 2005 [Buy It] AMERICA IS WAITING Brian Eno + David Byrne My Life in the Bush of Ghosts [Remastered] Nonesuch : 2006 [reissue] Sire : 1981 [original release] [Buy It] HALLALUJAH USA Booka Shade Movements Get Physical Music : 2006 [Buy It] LOLA STARS [...]
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[REMIX] Dragonette – “Let it Go (Faustix Imanos Remix)”
