4.20.2006

My Life In The Bush of Ghosts Reissue

My Life In The Bush of Ghosts, the 1981 Eno+Byrne collaboration made in heaven, was reissued April 11, '06. The reissue comes "in a beautiful new package, with extensive liner notes and photos, and featuring 7 previously unreleased tracks from the original album and a film by influential artist Bruce Conner."
For you who know not, here's some wikiplace info on this phenomenal work:

"My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is a 1981 album by Brian Eno and David Byrne, titled after Amos Tutuola's 1954 novel of the same name. The album was one of the first non-rap releases to make extensive use of sampling, especially in seamlessly incorporating the voices of singers, radio disk jockeys and an exorcist. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts has been called "A pioneering work for countless styles connected to electronics, ambience, and Third World music." [1] Most of the album's songs feature multilayered percussion and draw heavily on various world musics. The result is often reminiscent of Talking Heads albums from this era, such as Fear of Music and Remain In Light."

Go here to view the very cool studio/recording pics in flash.

And for you cool kids who mess with synthesizers, here's some info from the reissue website that would take your minds of Stacy's mom.

"This is the first time complete and total access to original tracks with remix and sampling possibilities have been officially offered on line. In keeping with the spirit of the original album, Brian and David are offering for download all the multitracks on two of the songs. Through signing up to the user license, and in line with Creative Commons licenses, you are free to edit, remix, sample and mutilate these tracks however you like. Add them to your own song or create a new one. Visitors are welcome to post their mixes or songs that incorporate these audio files on the site for others to hear and rate."

Jam these MLITBOG jams, then head over to the market and get yourself a copy.

Very, Very Hungry ( replaced "Qu'ran" from the original release)
Pitch To Voltage (previously unreleased track)

Also, head to your local library and read the Amos Tutuola novel. You might learn something.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

actually, "Very, Very Hungry" and "Qu'ran" are two different songs.

12:15 PM  
Blogger Esquirrel, yo! said...

You're right my friend. I meant to say replaced. Thanks for pointing that out.

1:14 PM  

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