Bestselling UK Music Review - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

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My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
by: Brian Eno

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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0077778647324
Format: Enhanced
Label: Eg
Manufacturer: Eg
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Eg
Release Date: April 11, 1989
Studio: Eg
Sales Rank: 31163

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Amazon.co.uk Review:
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

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- A collaboration made in heaven
This marriage of Eno & Byrne and the concept of taking non-music stuff off amerikan radio and stringing it to music may not sound too promising but it is astonishingly listenable. 'Jezebel Spirit' and 'America is Waiting' are mesmeric and this album rocks with rhythm and strangeness.
The call to prayer tracks and 'Help me Somebody' - spiritual stuff. It's also a great insight into the variety of stuff on the radio if you care to go looking for it, not that I do, too much hassle. You know, ... Read More

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- CLASSIC AHEAD OF ITS TIME
EVERYONE SHOULD OWN THIS RECORDING,AMAZING VOCAL, TECHNICAL ARRANGMENTS,GREAT PERCUSSION,AND GUITAR PLAYING FROM BYRNE.
ENO ADDING HIS GENIUS TO THE RECORDINGS THEY REALLY GELLED ON THIS PRODUCTION.THEY SHOULD COLLABORATE AGAIN WITH PETER GABRIEL.

Rating:

- Groundbreaking brilliance...
Few records can justifiably claim to be "groundbreaking", but here's one - a mesmerising example of two highly creative musicians at the peak of their powers pushing their ideas out to the edge. Using the infectious poly-rhythms and jerky, high tension riffs & vocals that permeated their brilliantly successful collaboration on Talking Heads' "Remain in Light" as their starting point, they mix-in ingenious looped samples and insidious guitar, synthesizer & percussion back-beats to produce something ... Read More

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- Excellent
Ethnoelectroartspacefunk classic from 1981, composed with peerless care and good taste. Rippling percussion and high energy funk on the first side, spacious but punchy ambience on the second, drawing influences and samples from Africa, Arabia and New York throughout. Pithy too, the raw but clean production suiting the fat free music to a tee.

Rating:

- WATERSHED.
I bought this album when it first came out in 1980 i bought all the Talking Heads stuff then, Remain in Light was a revelation to me and i listened to it often while i painted.
I fiirst got into the Talking Heads when they appeared at Leeds Polytechnic, i actually had'nt heard of them (1978) at that point. And there they were the whole crew in the cantine at the Poly. It was an incredible night with David Byrne doing his jerkey oddball introspective puppet movements.
I listened to Bush of Ghosts ... Read More

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