My Life In the Bush of Ghosts
Brian Eno & David Byrne
Open iTunes to preview, buy, and download music.
| Total: 19 Items |
Album Review
A pioneering work for countless styles connected to electronics, ambience, and Third World music, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts expands on the fourth-world concepts of Hassell/Eno work with a whirlwind 45 minutes of worldbeat/funk-rock (with the combined talents of several percussionists and bassists, including Bill Laswell, Tim Wright, David van Tieghem, and Talking Heads' Chris Frantz) that's also heavy on the samples — from radio talk-show hosts, Lebanese mountain singers, preachers, exorcism ceremonies, Muslim chanting, and Egyptian pop, among others. It's also light years away from the respectful, preservationist angles of previous generations' field recorders and folk song gatherers. The songs on My Life in the Bush of Ghosts present myriad elements from around the world in the same jumbled stew, without regard for race, creed, or color. As such, it's a tremendously prescient record for the future development of music during the 1980s and '90s.
Customer Reviews
A Masterpiece of Multi-layered Music and Meaning
This music gets under your skin and stays there. I haven't perceived the world quite the same way since I heard it. Isn't that what Art is supposed to do? I love Talking Heads (Byrne and Frantz) and Brian Eno and also was a fan of David van Teighem, so when I saw this at the music store years ago, I had to own it. Its power, and the spell it cast over me, never fades. The hair on the back of my neck still stands up when I hear "The Jezebel Spirit" and that evil exorcist's voice. "America is Waiting" is another song that never loses it's ability to remind me of the cloying insincerity of so much American news television. " Moonlight in Glory" is another great track. Think Middle American evangelism. This has a strange, twisted quality you can't escape. I feel Byrne and Eno all the way through it. What a great collaboration! Own it and enjoy it. Let it wash over you and alter your viewpoint (with headphones, of course).
My Childhood
Surrounded by music such as this, I look back at my childhood and thank the hippy gods that my formative years were filled with music and art that allowed to avoid '70's and early '80's pop music.
Fabulous album.
So glad to have found it again.
Biography
Born: May 15, 1948 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England
Genre: Rock
Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s
Top Albums and Songs By Brian Eno
Listeners Also Bought
- $12.99
- Genres: Rock, Music, Electronic, Classical, Modern Composition, Pop, Ambient, Prog-Rock/Art Rock
- Released: Feb 1981
- ℗ 2006 Nonesuch Records, Inc.
