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Audio CD
Number of Discs: 1
ASIN: B000002MM1
Other Editions: Audio Cassette

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Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 624,289 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Released in 1981, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is a collaboration between ambient pioneer Brian Eno and Talking Heads frontman David Byrne. On Ghosts, the two strong-willed musicians manage to come to a meeting of the minds, blending Byrne's herky-jerky funk with Eno's atmospheric sound sculpting. More than anything, this is a large album, intent on pushing itself to the front of the listener's consciousness. Abundant percussion (everything from booming tribal drums to eerie electronics) reverberates in the background while Byrne and Eno toss all manner of found sounds, field recordings, and radio broadcasts into the mix. What results is a groundbreaking album that introduced a generation to the dazzling possibilities offered by electronic recording techniques. Highlights include "The Jezebel Spirit," an electro-funk workout that uses a recording of an exorcism as its focal point, and "Very, Very Hungry," a mysteriously ethereal display of electronic percussion and large-scale sonic architecture. --S. Duda

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1981's classic album., 10 Feb 2003

By	Jason Parkes "We're all Frankies'" (Worcester, UK) - See all my reviews

1981 was a rum year for wayward experimentation & wild ambition, seeing such classic releases as Associates' Fourth Drawer Down, Simple Minds' Sons&Fascination, Japan's Tin Drum and this collaboration between Brian Eno & David Byrne.

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is one of the revolutionary releases of the 80s, up there with stuff like Yashar, Planet Rock, Get the Balance Right!, Blue Monday, Voodoo Ray, The Sweetest Girl etc. Eno & Byrne extend on their Talking Heads collaborations with this sample heavy blend of rhythm & samples. For anyone interested in experimental electronic based music, this is a great place to check out & a definite influence on acts like Autechre & Radiohead.

This is an 80s album like Sulk or Brilliant Trees, somehow beyond the vagaries of fashion; though the record does lapse into tuneful funk on tracks like Regiment & blissed out ambience on Mountain of Needles- so it's not all artw*nk city. A few tracks from this were used to great effect in Oliver Stone's Wall Street (1987).

Fave tracks are The Jezebel Spirit, Very Very Hungry, Mea Cupla & Come with Us- this album sits well at the start of the decade to Peter Gabriel's Passion towards the end (largely instrumental, facets of sampling & world music, electronic rhythms used with traditional instruments). This is an excellent album, as is Byrne's later work- such as Catherine Wheel & The Last Emperor. A key album of the 80s...

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