Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (Vinyl) (1981) [24bit/192kHz]

A monument of experimental percussion, tape looping, found sound and sweet serendipity, Eno & Byrne’s first collaboration curated snippets of evangelist preachers, Algerian chants and US talk shows and tethered them to Afrobeat, funk, electronica. Visionary in 1981, it still sounds wildly futuristic today.

AllMusic Review by John Bush
A pioneering work for countless styles connected to electronics, ambience, and Third World music, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts expands on the fourth-world concepts of Hassell/Eno work with a whirlwind 45 minutes of worldbeat/funk-rock (with the combined talents of several percussionists and bassists, including Bill Laswell, Tim Wright, David van Tieghem, and Talking Heads' Chris Frantz) that's also heavy on the samples – from radio talk-show hosts, Lebanese mountain singers, preachers, exorcism ceremonies, Muslim chanting, and Egyptian pop, among others. It's also light years away from the respectful, preservationist angles of previous generations' field recorders and folk song gatherers. The songs on My Life in the Bush of Ghosts present myriad elements from around the world in the same jumbled stew, without regard for race, creed, or color. As such, it's a tremendously prescient record for the future development of music during the 1980s and '90s.

Tracklist
01. America Is Waiting (3:37)
02. Mea Culpa (3:43)
03. Regiment (3:57)
04. Help Me Somebody (4:17)
05. The Jezebel Spirit (4:57)
06. Qu'ran (3:46)
07. Moonlight in Glory (4:22)
08. The Carrier (3:35)
09. A Secret Life (2:31)
10. Come with Us (2:41)
11. Mountain of Needles (2:37)