Brian Eno/David Byrne "My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts" EGLP 48 UK 1st A1/B1 1981
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Brian Eno - David Byrne ? "My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts" EG ?– EGLP 48 UK 1st Press Vinyl, LP, released in 1981. This is the 1st UK edition with the track "Qu'ran" opening side 2; after an initial pressing it was withdrawn and subsequent releases replaced it with "Very, Very Hungry".
The vinyl appears to have been lightly played and is in great condition. The sleeve shows minimal signs of wear and is intact with no writing or tears. The spine is intact and legible. Matrix / Runout (Side A machine stamped runout): EGLP 48 A//1?E ST STERLING 1 Matrix / Runout (Side B machine stamped runout): EGLP 48 B//1?EST STERLING 1
"My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" is the first collaborative album by Brian Eno and David Byrne, released in February 1981. It is titled after Amos Tutuola's 1954 novel of the same name. Recorded by Eno and Byrne in between their work on Talking Heads projects, the album integrates sampled vocals and found sounds, African and Middle Eastern rhythms, and electronic music techniques. While it received mixed reviews upon its release, My Life is now widely regarded as a high point in the discographies of Eno and Byrne.
The album has since been called a "pioneering work for countless styles connected to electronics, ambience and Third World music". The extensive use of sampling on the album is widely considered ground-breaking and innovative, though its actual influence on the sample-based music genres that later emerged continues to be debated. Pitchfork listed My Life in the Bush of Ghosts as the 21st best album of the 1980s, while Slant Magazine listed the album at No. 83 on its list of the "Best Albums of 1980s".
In a 1985 interview, singer Kate Bush remarked that "Bush of Ghosts" "left a very big mark on popular music". The album enthused Rick Wright of Pink Floyd, "knocked me sideways when I first heard it – full of drum loops, samples and soundscapes. Stuff that we really take for granted now, but which was unheard of in all but the most progressive musical circles at the time... The way the sounds were mixed in was so fresh, it was amazing."
The album was reissued on March 27, 2006 in the UK and April 11, 2006 in the US, remastered and with seven extra tracks. The track "Qu'ran" was excluded from this release without comment. However, in an interview for Pitchfork about the 2006 reissue, Byrne said:
“Way back when the record first came out, in 1981, it might have been '82, we got a request from an Islamic organization in London, and they said, 'We consider this blasphemy that you put grooves to the chanting of the Holy Book.' And we thought, 'Okay, in deference to somebody's religion, we'll take it off.' You could probably argue for and against monkeying with something like that. But I think we were certainly feeling very cautious about this whole thing. We made a big effort to try and clear all the voices, and make sure everybody was okay with everything. Because we thought, 'We're going to get accused of all kinds of things, and so we want to cover our asses as best we can.' So I think in that sense we reacted maybe with more caution than we had to. But that's the way it was."
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