Music : My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075597989427
Format: Enhanced, Extra tracks
Label: Nonesuch
Manufacturer: Nonesuch
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Nonesuch
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Sales Rank: 3280
Studio: Nonesuch
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Album Description:
Brian Eno and David Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts appears downright visionary. With its "found" vocals, cut-and-paste arrangements, funked-up rhythms and embrace of influences from all around the globe, the duo's controversial work anticipated the creative cross-pollination and technological innovation of contemporary dance music, world music, hip hop and alternative rock. You can hear echoes of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts in the anthems Moby built around vintage vocal samples, in the outrageously exotic beats of Missy Elliot and Timbaland, in the Middle Eastern accented chill-out tracks of Thievery Corporation or Bjork's otherworldly soundscapes.
Amazon.com essential recording:
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
Average Rating: 
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I purchased this to REPLACE my vinyl and old scratched up CD versions. Yes, I own the original vinyl AND the original CD release. I love the music. I wanted to finally add it to my MP3 collection of which I actually BUY all the music in. Oh, and I don't give copies away like the music companies say we all do......... anyhow, I bought this only to find that it's full of copy protection crap. So much in fact that this thing it totally useless to me. Instead of a happy moment I ended up with frustration. I wanted to put the thing on my iPod but no, I'm not "allowed" to do that. As i said, I now own 3 copies of this which I purchased. Nice to be punished. Anyhow, I'm sending it back and I'll rip from the other that I have or better yet, download it all for free since that's kinda what we're all being pushed to do. They make it harder and harder to do the right thing, in time it'll all just fall apart on them. Enjoy the cash, big brother, but it will no longer be mine.
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When Ran & Cheddar grabbed me right after one of them grabbed this album in 1981 [on cassette & LP in those days] and we went for a long drive, I had trouble getting the name of the album but the music was hypnotic and amazingly brilliant. I didn't stop listening for months cos it touched my soul. Whether the urban legend is true that this is the first real 'sampling' album or not, it IS amazing and timeless. A 'DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR [& YOUR MATES]' album. Individually, Brian and David are modern musics equivalents of Mozart and Beethoven. Together, .... heavenly! This album is wondrous in its 'sampling' choices and original musical accompaniment to those themes. Each composition is a classic because of those two and we have the honour to share/hear their genius time and time again. Thank GOD!
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The original album was a masterpiece. Though not widely heard of in its day, it was an outstanding work of art and indirectly influenced more popular music. The "sampling" and overall production were an influence on Hank Shocklee by his own account, who produced Public Enemy.
I love the record and am awed by the way Eno and Byrne made these intricate, flavorful creations out of simple ingrediants. Eno's most startling acheivements were generally done in collaboration with others and this is one of them.
All that said, taking a track - and a good one at that - out of the original running order ("Qu'ran") - is a flaming shame. History is available here only in a revised form.
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wonderful but it FAILS because of the reticence to include the orginally LATER deleted Qu'ran track....
this is a HOLY song and you can't let fundamentalists HIJACK the sacred. well, they can't but it was a corporation that ultimately cowered here.
a shame.
otherwise, 99.9% great album.
see the work eno did with jon hassel!
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This music is astounding, sublime, wonderful, violent, surprising, mesmerizing, subtle, groundbreaking...you get the idea. Most wonderful.
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