MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS BRIAN ENO DAVID BYRNE EGLP48 UK 1981 w/QU'RAN RARE
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August 8, 2018
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My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is the first collaborative album by Brian Eno and David Byrne, released in February 1981. Borrowing its title from Amos Tutuola's 1954 novel of the same name, the album integrates sampled vocals and found sounds, African and Middel Eastern Rhythms, and electronic techniques. It was recorded prior to Eno and Byrne's work on Talking Heads' fourth album Remain In Light (1980), but sample clearance problems delayed its release until several months after.
This is the 1st UK edition with the track "Qu'ran" opening side 2; after an initial pressing it was withdrawn and subsequent releases replaced it with "Very, Very Hungry". Sleeve text is in gold, no barcode, small Polydor/EG logos on back cover, labels have yellow text on black. Record has some light surface marks but otherwise appears in good shape. Jacket is glossy with a small mark in the top right hand corner where the price tag was removed and a few light crease but in pretty decent shape for being 35+ years old (see photos). Grading is visual only.
Side one
"America Is Waiting" – Ray Talliaferro of KGO NEWSTALK AM 810, San Francisco, April 1980. "Mea Culpa" – Inflamed caller and smooth politician replying, both unidentified. Radio call-in show, New York, July 1979. "Regiment" – Dunya Yunis, Lebanese mountain singer, from The Human Voice in the World of Islam (Tangent Records TGS131) "Help Me Somebody" – Reverend Paul Morton, broadcast sermon, New Orleans, June 1980. "The Jezebel Spirit" – Unidentified exorcist, New York, September 1980.Side two
"Qu'ran" – Algerian Muslims chanting the Qu'ran. (same source as track 3) "Moonlight in Glory" – The Moving Star Hall Singers, Sea Island, Georgia. (From The Moving Star Hall Singers, Folkways FS 3841), produced by Guy Carawan. "The Carrier" – *Dunya Yunis. (same source as track 3) "A Secret Life" – Samira Tewfik (“Hobak Mor”), Lebanese popular singer. (from Les Plus Grandes Artistes du Monde Arabe, EMI) "Come with Us" – *Unidentified radio evangelist, San Francisco, April 1980Shipped in a cardboard record mailer with cardboard inserts. LP's packed withinner sleeve outside the jacket, and in an additional inner sleeve outside printed inner sleeve (if printed inner sleeve present). All duties and taxes are the responsibility of the buyer.
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