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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, released in 1981, is the debut collaborative album between English ambient musician Brian Eno and Scottish-American Post-Punk musician David Byrne. Marking Byrne's first project outside of his work with Talking Heads, the album was put together in 1979-1980 shortly after the release of the latter's Fear of Music, and in hindsight acts as the direct prototype for Remain in Light later in 1980, right down to featuring several of the backing musicians who would appear on that album and its supporting tour. Seeking to experiment with the avant-funk approach that Talking Heads were increasingly leaning into, Byrne and Eno created a collage of looped, trancelike sounds that would form what the latter dubbed their "vision of a psychedelic Africa."To deconstruct the idea of vocals in music, the pair opted not to record any of their own vocal tracks, but rather splice in found recordings of other people from various sources, inspired by Holger Czukay's prior experiments with dictation machines and shortwave radios. This approach to sampling was unprecedented: while it was nothing new in music, nobody had ever made sampling such a crucial and omnipresent element of an album before, and indeed it wasn't an easy task to achieve. The album was delayed by two years as Byrne and Eno sought to clear the samples used with the original rightsholders and reconfigure tracks whose samples couldn't be greenlit. As such, even though it was made before Remain in Light as a prelude, it released the year after the Talking Heads album and became an accidental coda to it.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The radical approach on this album was a massive risk, and indeed it didn't seem to pay off at first: it just barely failed to clear the Top 40 on the Billboard 200 at a No. 44 peak. It was a marginally bigger success in the UK at No. 29, but became a surprise hit in New Zealand, where it charted at No. 8. Creative Differences between Byrne and Eno over the album's approach would also contribute to Eno cutting ties with Talking Heads, combined with the tense production of Remain in Light, and he wouldn't collaborate with Byrne again until Everything That Happens Will Happen Today 27 years later.My Life in the Bush of Ghosts was supported by two singles: "Regiment" and "The Jezebel Spirit".Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Tracklist:Side One "America Is Waiting" (3:36) "Mea Culpa" (3:35) "Regiment" (3:56) "Help Me Somebody" (4:18) "The Jezebel Spirit" (4:55)Side Two "Qu'ran" (3:46)note Replaced with the former B-Side "Very Very Hungry" (3:31) on most later copies "Moonlight in Glory" (4:19) "The Carrier" (3:30) "A Secret Life" (2:20) "Come With Us" (2:38) "Mountain of Needles" (2:35)It was come dark, it troped and they were very tired: | |
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