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My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is a studio album by Brian Eno and David Byrne, released in February 1981. It was Byrne's first album without his band Talking Heads. The album integrates sampled vocals and found sounds, African and Middle Eastern rhythms, and electronic music techniques. It was recorded before Eno and Byrne's work on Talking Heads' 1980 album Remain in Light, but problems clearing samples delayed its release by several months.The extensive sampling on My Life is considered innovative, though its influence on later sample-based music genres is debated.Eno and Byrne first worked together on More Songs About Buildings and Food, the 1978 album by Byrne's band Talking Heads. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts was primarily recorded during a break between the Talking Heads albums Fear of Music (1979) and Remain in Light (1980), both produced by Eno. Eno had also recently recorded Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics with Jon Hassell, who intended to collaborate with Eno and Byrne on the album, but could not afford to fly to California for the recording sessions. Upon hearing the tapes, Hassell felt "outraged" at what he felt was an appropriation of his music.Eno described My Life as a "vision of a psychedelic Africa". Rather than conventional pop or rock singing, most of the vocals are sampled from other sources, such as commercial recordings of Arabic singers, radio disc jockeys, and an exorcist. Musicians had previously used similar sampling techniques, but, according to Guardian writer Dave Simpson, sampling had never before been used "to such cataclysmic effect". In 2001, Eno cited Holger Czukay's experiments with dictaphones and shortwave radios as earlier examples of sampling. He felt that the "difference was, I suppose, that I decided to make [sampling] the lead vocal".The release was delayed while legal rights were sought for the large number of samples used on the album.A sample of an evangelist Kathryn Kuhlman performing an exorcism intended for "The Jezebel Spirit" was refused by her estate as they objected to the context it was to be used in.The album title is derived from Amos Tutuola's 1954 novel My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. According to Byrne's 2006 liner notes, neither he nor Eno had read the novel, but they felt the title "seemed to encapsulate what this record was about".Soon after the album was released, the Islamic Council of Great Britain objected to the use of samples of Qur'anic recital in the track "Qu'ran", considering it blasphemy. Byrne and Eno removed the track from later pressings. In 2006, Byrne said: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 ... So I think in that sense we reacted maybe with more caution than we had to.Two tracks in the album, "Regiment" and "The Carrier", sampled the voice of Lebanese singer Dunya Younes (credited in the album as Dunya Yunis). Although Byrne and Eno took care to clear it with the label that released the album they took the sample from and also paid for the sampling, Dunya Younes had no idea that her voice was used and only found out in 2017. Both songs were taken down from streaming sites after a family representative contacted the duo a year later, and the songs were later reinstated when the issue was settled amicably out of court.This brand new edition includes all 11 original tracks plus 8 of the 2006 expanded issue and even more,demos,edits,outtakes,the original songs that used as samples,remixes, interview & more

Brian Eno and David Byrne My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Expanded

Altogether Stranger

Wild Waters

Hey - thanks for listening to this live improv, performed & looped & overdubbed as presented here. Hope you like it!

Note: [open E - A - E - A - B - E] [+ ehxbeat]
[rehearsals for Japan]

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When the World's on Fire

Daddy's Trip To Brazil

Daddy's Trip to Brazil

A continuation of the ping-pong collaboration with @daniel-diaz. I wanted to lean into the new wave vibe, so I wrote this little electric guitar part and added it to the mix.

The original track: https://soundcloud.com/coralineada/the-minotaurs-lament

Daniel Diaz bringing the bass and drums: https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/minotaurs-run

The Minos Constellation (Coraline Ada Ehmke and Daniel Diaz)

Written by Sandy Chamoun, Farah Kaddour, Antonio Hajj Moussa, Anthony Sahyoun, Pascal Semerdjian and Marwan Tohme between Beit Fares wa Lucia in Jbeil, Tunefork Studios in Beirut and La Frette Studios in Paris.
Lyrics by Sandy Chamoun.

Recorded by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh at La Frette Studios Paris, in August 2024. Additional recordings at Tunefork Studios in Beirut.
Mixed by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh at Hotel2Tango, Montreal.

Produced by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh and SANAM.
Mastered by Heba Kadry, New York.

SANAM • Harik

Nemo, le capitaine bien sûr (pas le poisson!), en hommage à l'enfance, illuminée par Jules Verne!

Nemo, ou les vingt mille lieues de l'enfance

Please don't leave me

behind my skin

I was once alive and it was swirly 
The wind, the trees and birds they heard me
I know they never tried to curse me
But our time as friends, like you, was Swirly

Remember when you’d shoot that one? 
Only you could pull that off
Every time, the same old spin 
It went round and round’ in rings 

I’ve never tried to write one song 
But just for you I would write them all
These words they’re flowin with such an ease
Like your curls blowing in the breeze
Like a dancer at the ball
I’m guessing you wished you didn’t try at all
I’d forget so much with you
If you think about you would know it’s true 

I was once alive and it was swirly 
The wind, the trees and birds they heard me
I know they never tried to curse me
But our time as friends, like you, was Swirly

Swirly

La Llorona

El Arbol del Olvido

Por Eso Me Quedo

Limpet

CARNAGE

Hand of God

Spotify, YouTube, Deezer, Applemusic and other music platforms artist name "FOKHS"

Bandcamp artist name "Tolgasemii"

and another YouTube account name "vantuzell"


New Album 'Songs of Resistance 1948-2018' available now via ANTI- Records. Featuring Sam Amidon, Justin Vivian Bond, Ohene Cornelius, Steve Earle, Meshell Ndegeocello, Fay Victor, Tom Waits, plus Domenica Fossati, Tift Merritt and Syd Straw.

When the World's on Fire

Marc Ribot

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