Friday 24 March 2006
Another for the get list
Reissue of Byrne and Eno’s My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Wow, has it really been 25 years? The previously unreleased tracks sound pretty cool. Apparently they’re going to put up a remix site soon, too. And dig the studio photos and the ‘video’ for “Mea Culpa” full of snippets from chem/physics films.
At the dawn of my university radio days (yeowch, even that was 12 years ago now), “Help Me Somebody” was the first piece of music I ever played on the air.
Bush Of Ghosts just grooves in such peculiar ways… hardly any drum kit, but tons of other percussion put through all sorts of electronic wringers, and none of it quantized. Y’know, I love drum kit, but this has me interested again in doing something different. I always loved that Wall Of Voodoo had Joe Nanini and his pots and pans rather than a “drummer”. And one of the greatest things about Nortec Collective (especially Bostich) is the fabulous percussion…
Hmm.