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Track Listing
1. America Is Waiting
2. Mea Culpa
3. Regiment
4. Help Me Somebody
5. Jezebel Spirit, The
6. Very, Very Hungry
7. Moonlight in Glory
8. Carrier, The
9. Secret Life, A - (Arabic)
10. Come With Us
11. Mountain of Needles
12. Pitch to Voltage - (previously unreleased)
13. Two Against Three - (previously unreleased)
14. Vocal Outtakes - (previously unreleased)
15. New Feet - (previously unreleased)
16. Defiant - (previously unreleased)
17. Number 8 Mix - (previously unreleased)
18. Solo Guitar With Tin Foil - (previously unreleased)
Album Notes
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Personnel: David Byrne (guitar, synthesizer, bass guitar, drums, percussion); Brian Eno (guitar, synthesizer, bass guitar, drums, percussion); Tim Wright, Bill Laswell, Busta Jones (bass instrument); Prairie Prince, David Van Tieghem (drums, percussion); Chris Frantz, John Cooksey (drums); Jose Rossy (congas, agogo); Steve Scales (congas, percussion); Mingo Lewis (bata); Dennis Keeley (bodhran).
Recording information: 1979 - 1980.
Eno was a key figure in the development of Talking Heads, producing some of their most innovative albums. This collaboration with head Head Byrne built on the sonic ground the two had already broken together via their well established working relationship. The pair couldn't have known how influential MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS would be in the next two decades.
Deconstructing the avant-funk of the Heads' REMAIN IN LIGHT, Byrne and Eno recorded polyrhythmic backing tracks similar to that effort. Instead of creating lyrics or melodies to lay over them, the duo turned to "found sounds" and voices, looping everything from radio talk show conversations to Muslim chants atop the rhythm bed, before anyone even knew what a sampler was. The subsequent impact on everything, from electronica to World music to whatever Bill Laswell is doing this week, was inestimable. The most important thing is that all this high-minded studio wizardry works on a very immediately satisfying level.
Industry Reviews
Ranked #36 in NME's list of the 50 Greatest Albums Of The '80s.
NME (09/25/1993)
[I]t's the unidentified voices seeping in from the haunted boundaries of American talk radio that capture our attention and that now seem to speak to us about another, still uncharted world.
5 stars out of 5 -- Byrne and Eno's collaboration drips with emotional intensity....The feelings don't come directly from them but from the found voices of Pentecostal preachers and Algerian Muslims that the duo harvested from American radio and ethnic field recordings.
5 stars out of 5 -- The disturbingly funky exotic stew that resulted was mind-bending in its day and remains so now.
[T]he remastered GHOSTS feels haunting, hypnotic, and fresh 25 years later. -- Grade: A-
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