Some More David Byrne (and Brian Eno)
Well, David Byrne and Brian Eno have teamed up again, after 30 years, to bring us a new collaborative album.
It is available on their website. You can hear the whole thing streamed below - and on their site.
It will be shipping at the end of November, but the digital versions are yours today, exclusively from their site, with no DRM. The album (unlike Radiohead’s experiment) is NOT free. But who ever said it had to be?
Anyways, enjoy the stream, and let me know what you think. I’ve just started streaming it this morning so the jury is still out for me.
By the way, here is an interesting musing about the record from Brian Eno, who refers to it as “electronic gospel”.
“Surrender to His Will,” by Reverend Maceo Woods and The Christian Tabernacle Choir, was the first gospel song I ever really responded to. I heard it on a distant South American radio station whilst in Compass Point, Nassau, working with Talking Heads on the album More Songs about Buildings and Food. Spending time with them, and becoming aware of their musical interests, opened my ears to genres and styles I hadn’t really noticed up to that point, including gospel. So, it’s fitting that the circle should close with this record.
As a foreigner in New York — where I ended up shortly after recording More Songs — I was surprised by how little attention Americans gave to their own great indigenous music. It was even slightly uncool, as though the endorsement of gospel necessarily implied support of its associated religious framework. Thanks to Reverend Woods however, I began to see gospel music as conveying the act of surrender more than the act of worship; and this, of course, intrigued me, and has informed my music ever since.
Brian Eno, from http://www.davidbyrne.com/music/cds/everything_that_happens/index.php
August 26th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Another David Byrne post? Wow, this is indeed a good week on the Body Creative Network. I haven’t heard this album yet but my expectations are quite high. I have it downloaded, just waiting for the right time to listen.
Also, the nerd/jerk in me would like to point out that the last Byrne/Eno collaboration was 27 years ago, not 30 as the article suggests. It was their 1981 album, My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts. Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.
August 27th, 2008 at 12:02 am
Also, so no one is lead astray, “The River” is not a Bruce Springsteen or Garth Brooks cover. I haven’t been this disappointed since I found out that Thom Yorke’s solo album “The Eraser” was not a tribute to the Arnold Schwarzenegger film of the same name, or for that matter, when Radiohead’s “True Love Waits” had nothing to do with pledging abstinence.
August 27th, 2008 at 8:42 am
The upcoming movie “Beer For My Horses” is, in fact, a tribute to the song “Beer For My Horses” by Toby Keith. And yes, it indeed starts Toby Keith. So rest easy.
I wonder how many of these type of relationships we can come up with if we try? I’m having fun …
August 27th, 2008 at 8:47 am
I think it best though, since time actually does move forward continuously, to never call anything “Cutting Edge”. You are just setting yourself up people.
August 27th, 2008 at 8:52 am
U2’s All That You Can’t Leave Behind is actually full of songs that, a few years later, have been pretty easy to leave behind.
(I’m not sure I agree - don’t punch me everyone else)
August 27th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Did you hear that Toby Keith recently endorsed Obama?!?! AND casually describes himself as a Democrat?!?! Toby “We’ll Put A Boot In Your A– It’s The American Way” Keith…
The shots taken at Deliri”Taking The Easy Way”ous? and U”Shell Of Their Former Selves”2 are much appreciated, especially coming from Dave “The Line ‘Freedom Has A Scent Like A Newborn Baby’s Head’ Doesn’t Make Me Throw Up When I Hear It” Von Bieker.
I really like this Byrne/Eno album, by the way…