My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is a project album released in 1981 by musicians Brian Eno and David Byrne from Talking Heads . The work was created in advance of the work on Remain in Light , but was only published later for legal reasons for sampling. The title of the work is based on the novel of the same name by Amos Tutuola .
According to Byrne, neither he nor Eno had read the eponymous novel at the time of recording, but were familiar with its first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952). Although the album received mixed reviews at the time of its release, it is now recognized as one of the standout works by Eno and Byrne and a fundamental first step in popularizing the use of samples . The samples and random soundscapes are used from various sources.
reception
The album's sampling technique is seen as groundbreaking and trend-setting for many future developments. Some see the album as a pioneer for world music due to the use of African and Arabic elements; others point out that Eno and Byrne were more passive "curators" in appropriating the musical reality of others.
On the list of the best albums of 1980 by Pitchfork Media takes My Life in the Bush of Ghosts one the 21th Place.
In 2001, Eno was asked by Q magazine whether he and Byrne had invented sampling for the album, which was still recorded entirely with analog technology. Eno explained that many others had already experimented with, including Holger Czukay of Can ; their album would have been the first to rely so completely on sampling. The magazine ZEIT stated in 2007 that Eno and Byrne had brought "the ideas of Cage, Stockhausen and Reich into pop music" with their work and showed the way for all subsequent sampling techniques.
Musician
- David Byrne and Brian Eno - Guitar , Bass , Synthesizer , Drums , Percussion , Found Items
- John Cooksey - drums on Help Me Somebody and Qu'ran
- Chris Frantz - Drums on Regiment
- Robert Fripp - Frippertronics on regiment
- Michael "Busta Cherry" Jones - bass on regiment
- Dennis Keeley - Bodhrán on Mea Culpa
- Bill Laswell - bass on America Is Waiting
- Mingo Lewis - Batá , Chapman Stick on The Jezebel Spirit and The Carrier
- Prairie Prince - bass drum on The Jezebel Spirit and The Carrier
- José Rossy - Congas , Agong-Gong on Moonlight in Glory
- Steve Scales - Congas on Help Me Somebody
- David Van Tieghem - drums, percussion on America is Waiting and Regiment
- Tim Wright - bass on America is Waiting