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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 9332727014390
Label: TODO MUNDO
Manufacturer: TODO MUNDO
MPN: 2
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: TODO MUNDO
Release Date: November 25, 2008
Studio: TODO MUNDO
Disc 1:- Home
- My Big Nurse
- I Feel My Stuff
- Everything That Happens
- Life Is Long
- The River
- Strange Overtones
- Wanted for Life
- One Fine Day
- Poor Boy
- The Lighthouse
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
David Byrne and Brian Eno have paired up for their first record together as co-writers since the highly influential and critically acclaimed 1981 release My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Everything That Happens Will Happen Today is the culmination of a year s worth of writing, recording, and travel
between New York and London.
Everything That Happens... was conceptualized during a visit to Brian Eno s studio after the two reconnected
upon Nonesuch Records re-release of Bush of Ghosts. Byrne explains, ''I recall Brian mentioning that he
had a lot of largely instrumental tracks he d accumulated, and since, in his words, he hates writing words,
I suggested I have a go at writing some words, and tunes over a few of them, and we see what happens.''
Thus the two began exchanging vocal and instrumental tracks, and the transatlantic collaboration began.
Everything That Happens...features Byrne s lyrics and voice alongside Eno s various electronic tracks.
''When we started this work, we started to think we were making something like electronic gospel: a music where singing was the central event, but whose sonic landscapes were not the type normally associated
with that way of singing,'' says Eno. ''This thought tapped into my long love affair with gospel music, which,
curiously, was inadvertently initiated by David and the Talking Heads.''
Album Description:
Brian Eno and David Byrne finished their first collaboration in about 30 years and the result is the album, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. For the most part, Brian did the music and David wrote some tunes, words and sang. It's familiar but completely new as well. Per David Byrne, "We're pretty excited.'
Average Rating: 
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It's hard to finish this CD. Part of my disappointment is from its failure to live up to my expectations, and also this CD just fails on its own. I am a fan of REMAIN IN LIGHT and BUSH OF GHOSTS (two other Eno/Byrne collaborations) and was hoping for more of the same. This CD is not even close! This album should have been WRONG WAY UP (Eno/Cale) so do yourself a favor and go get that CD instead. Hard to put my finger on exactly what is wrong with this album other than it was a chore to get through it and felt disjointed. This was not a collaboration in any sense, even in the liner notes they explain that Eno made the music in advance of Byrne writing his lyrics in response to the music. The end result feels like the mashup that it is.
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After the satisfying "Growing Backwards" album in 2004, which was David Byrne's most exciting album in a long time (for me anyway), Byrne now returns with yet another fine album, only that this time it is a collaboration with Brian Eno. I don't dare say that this is the long-awaited follow-up to the Byrne/Eno 1981 classic "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" album, but timing-wise this would be a correct statement.
On "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today", Eno and Byrne bring a lush landscape, quite different form the "Ghosts" album. The opener "Home" is a slow, almost majestic, song, as is the title track. The 'classic' Eno/Byrne sound (recalling the Eno-produced Talking Heads albums and the "Ghosts" album) comes through in tracks like "I Feel My Stuff", "Strange Overtones" (which is the best song on the album for me), "Wanted For Life" and "Poor Boy". The closer "The Lighthouse" is a beautiful pensive tune that is the perfect way to round out the album. In all, this album ... Read More
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I've been waiting for something like this CD from David Byrne for some time.Always liked the Talking Heads but never really cared for his solo material.I saw his show at Carnegie Hall and it was ok but I really hoped he would throw in some Talking Heads stuff which he did not. Noticed he was on tour and was doing a show at Foxwoods and bought tickets before I heard about this CD.Well the show was amazing.I love this CD,some songs more than others but its great new material.Teaming up with Brian Eno again was a great move.
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I've been listening to this album over and over. New age. Folk music. Peter, Paul and Mary. Instrumental with words. Occasionally reminds me of some of the Beatles' pensive music, especially the eponymous "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today."
I stumbled upon the album when I stumbled upon the blog, "an udge and a wink." Hint, hint, wink, wink.
I guess what I like about it best is its calming effect. Kind of fridaynight, turn-the-lights-down-low, wrap-your-arms-around-someone music. And then fall asleep with the album on continuous replay....
Syrupy. Treacly. Maybe. Good? Definitely.
It's not the kind of album you buy songs separately at 99 cents a piece, or mix them up on your iPod. It's a coherent album with songs placed in order by sentient beings.
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I'm perplexed that fans would expect "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" Part II as both Eno and Byrne have continued to change and grow as artists since their last collaboration over 20 years ago. Here's what it sounds like--Eno's ambient textures, music and soundscapes with occasionally propulsive beats combined with Byrne's quirky vocal delivery and lyrics. Imagine Eno's last album "Another Day on Earth" colliding with Bryne's "Growing Backwards" and you'll have a sense of the album's sound and appeal.
"Folk-electronic-gospel" is a pretty accurate description if you add in "pop" as part of the description. There are two editions of this available; a collector's edition with a miniature house and landscape housing the CD with three additional tracks, booklet and art and the regular CD edition both of them available from Bryne's website. I'd suggest ordering directly from there because the turn around time for the discs to ship will take less AND if you order the regular CD you get ... Read More
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