Upcoming Byrne/Eno album: "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today"
Here's the brand new site for the upcoming Byrne/Eno album, "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today."
The album will be released August 18 as a digital download only (DRM-free). Then, later there'll be a deluxe package CD with download option, etc. A free track will be released for download on 8/4. The site has a short video by David Byrne.
Brian Eno and I recently finished our first collaboration in about 30 years. For the most part, Brian did the music and I wrote some tunes, words and sang. It's familiar but completely new as well. We're pretty excited. In August the music will be available via this Web site, free for streaming and it will also be available for purchase as both a download and in physical formats. One of the songs will be available free of charge.
In September I will begin a tour, on which I will be playing music from the new album as well as music from our previous collaborations - 3 Talking Heads albums, Bush of Ghosts, etc. If you'd like to be updated as this story unfolds, please add your email address via the box below (we will not contact you for any reason other than to tell you about this David Byrne and Brian Eno project and the tour and we promise not to give or sell your contact to anyone else or even to the government).
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America is waiting (for a message of some kind)...
I can only hope that it will be as great as MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS. Help me, somebody!
There's no escape from Him.
He's so high you can't get over Him.
He's so low you can't get under Him.
He's so wide you can't get around Him.
If you make your bed in Heaven He's there.
If you make your bed in Hell He's there.
He's EVERYwhere.
Personally, I think they're talking about Phil Manzanera.
http://www.multinet.no/~jonarne/Hjemmesia/Favorittartister/roxy_music/phil_manzanera.jpg
Here's another vote for elegant appropriation, Bush of Ghosts style:
That's when I realized I was in trouble.
Of course it will sound completely different. But we can hope.
Reminds me of that Orbital song with the Star Trek TNG sample of Geordi LaForge (LeVar Burton), "When we reach that point, whatever happened will happen again."
P.S.: "There is the theory of the möbius, a twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop."
Don't get your hopes up too much, neither of these artists is in the business of repeating themselves. Eno in particular complains about people continually asking him to repeat things he did years ago.
Anyone who wants more of Bush of Ghosts should check out Bryne's excellent Catherine Wheel album which he made the following year. Eno wrote two tracks, plays on it and it has a very similiar feel, down to the sampled speech on "Eggs In A Briar Patch".
Also, Trollbäck design did a great video for "Moonlight in Glory". You have to hunt around for it on their Flash home page but it's well worth a look:
http://www.trollback.com/
Yay! If it were the same old, they wouldn't be true to themselves or their following. I can't wait!
Wire also released a new album, called Object 47. I just picked it up. Sounds pretty true to form so far...
I have a few really beautiful, interesting physical album covers from both Eno and Byrne. But it really is about the music, so I guess I will have to figure out how to download the darn thing. Boingboing is as high tech as I get.
Yeah i miss album covers too.
"Jezabel!"
It might be different than Bush of Ghosts, but it might still grab people.
One thing I've always appreciated about Eno is the way he thinks, or doesn't think. I used to have his Oblique Strategies as a utility on an old, long-dead Palm. I miss that thing sometimes.
For those of you who miss physical media, pitchforkmedia.com reports that "regular and deluxe CD editions will follow at a later date. The deluxe package includes artwork by Stefan Sagmeister."
Byrne + Eno + Sagmeister! Cool.
You can get Oblique Strategies as a Yahoo Widget:
http://widgets.yahoo.com/search/?q=oblique
Or, if you're a Mac user, a Dashboard widget:
http://www.guyd2.com/widget/
Re: album covers. I work as a CD designer much of the time but lately I've been doing more and more work for vinyl as well. Physical media (analogue, even) isn't expiring as quickly as some prognosticators claimed it would.
JOHN@11: Thanks for the OS links! I haven't had the cards for over 20 years, but now have the deck in my dashboard. =D
He's still alive. Who knew.
I loved the album (No Pussyfooting) with Eno and Robert Fripp, (he just sat on a stool and played like a banshee when I saw King Crimson in concert). My friends and I always called them Frippandeno, like they were a two headed beast. The album had a great set of photos for the artwork. Four images, all subtly different from each other; we spent hours looking at them, telling them apart. I still find myself singing BABY'S ON FIRE from time to time.
Uh, I know this is way late and possibly no one will read this but I just HAVE to say something. JAHKNOW: That was WORF (Michael Dorn), not Geordi LaForge, sampled from TNG on the Orbital song Time Becomes.