eno & byrne, "strange overtones" --- as good as eno & cale, "lay my love"?

thx for the news - waiting for my mail

listening now -- kinda sweet! is eno singing backup? hope the rest of the record carries on with the poppy feel.

Thanks! But how long does it take to send an automated mail message, David?? 8 minutes already!

Ah there it is :)

Duh. WHAT IMAGE? (nevermind, I downloaded it somewhere else - look for it on the hype machine)

http://i37.tinypic.com/1r3k04.png

vv nice!

should be: "be sure NOT to add that e mail address to yr address book"

(always display images from ..@..)

On 4th listen now, impressed. Different, but I like it!

love this. so excited for new album.

yes, quite a pleasant tune. it definitely has a similar feel to some of the tracks on eno's last album. sort of clunky and homemade - in a good way.

yea it's good. But the grass background texture feels a little Battles anno 06

very very very good, this track.

lyrics on this are sick.

I'm impressed with how good the song is. I kinda stopped checking for Eno after Paul Simon and Coldplay. Eno's production is a little too Pro Tooled for me, but thing song is so sweet it makes up for it.

nice song, byrne sounds old though

Good song.

nice song, byrne sounds old though
sounds way better here than on that single with dizzee imo. great song indeed.

Wait, so Eno isn't going to be on tour with DB at all then? (just read the text at the site)

http://everythingthathappens.com/

no, i think original reports had Eno touring with Byrne, but that ain't the case. Eno don't tour!

this is surprisingly good.

definitely good, but not as good as lay my love

yes, quite a pleasant tune. it definitely has a similar feel to some of the tracks on eno's last album. sort of clunky and homemade - in a good way.

Agreed -- but w/o that record's bleak, post-Bush mid-life crisis.

Re. Cale, I also love how Eno works w/ these old avant-garde collaborators to make the purest pop records of his career.

Just listened to this. Dig it, but it doesn't surprise me. Pretty much exactly what I'd imagine a 2008 David Byrne song would sound like. Production is cool, very sculptural and sensual, but also oddly "clunky", like someone said upthread. Sounds like NPR people getting stoned. Haven't heard any recent Eno, so I don't have a context for comparison in that sense. Does not incline me to buy a record.

From the Catbirdseat tumblr (it's funny cos it's true):

"Do this: listen to that Byrne/Eno song, but when Byrne starts singing, imagine it’s Herbert, the creepy old man from Family Guy."

Timesonline interview with Eno:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article4479170.ece

yeah, this is nice. lyrics are pretty corny tho!

V. nice. As much as I liked the leftfield, experimental My Life In The Bush of Ghosts, I want a straightforward pop record from Byrne/Eno, and this song makes me hopeful.

not bad but not very good either. the song totally passes me by. it's lukewarm. "nicht fisch, nicht fleisch" (not fish, not meat) as we say in german.

Nice interview. Wouldn't have guessed Eno buys music from iTunes, though! Wowwwwwww

The rhythm section on this sounds like "Vitamin C". Some of the filtering and the synths sounds dated (to now). Guitar hook good. People at party liked it.

Just came up during shuffle. Played it 15+ times now and I'm loving it more each time. Will look into that Vitamin C resemblance, interesting. I get so much joy out of listening to this song. The lyrics are Byrne commenting on Eno and him creating songs? That's what I'm reading into them anyway but I'm very sloppy wrt lyrics, I hardly ever really listen to them..

Stream & multiple order/download options online. (waiting for email confirmation to their "I'm a new customer, create yet ANOTHER account I won't use ever again because I'm not going to remember yet another password only for your site" thingy so I can order)

http://everythingthathappens.com/

It's surprisingly expensive for a direct-from-artist online download. I wouldn't be surprised if it was totally worth the money; just sayin'.

This sounds like the Flaming Lips

It's kinda sweet that the deluxe package includes a screensaver. So retro.

the only retro thing in here

It's surprisingly expensive for a direct-from-artist online download. I wouldn't be surprised if it was totally worth the money; just sayin'.

they send you the CD though and you can also select a lossless download for now, so I think that's pretty fair.

We're sorry, but something went wrong.

We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly.

:(

oh well, it took me like ten seconds to find it on blogspot.

Yeah, I contacted them too - couldn't enter @ or . in the email address field ( email address looked like bill:gatesémicrosoft:com ) and haven't received confirmation either, can't order, want the deluxe edition.

Download worked fine for me first thing this morning, I'll try to post something interesting after I listen through another time..

Oh come on - still no confirmation, was able to click the "reset password" button and login to the "fan network" but I still can't order it.

Starting to reconsider whether I want the deluxe edition.

It worked! (After I finally set Internet Explorer as my default browser & reinstalled Flash. Download is ongoing and I'm -phew- back in Firefox now. *shiver*)

HOLDING PATTERN SCREENSAVER
version 2.0 -- Special Edition for David Byrne and Brian Eno
August 1, 2008
Published by Idle Time Software
www.idletimesoftware.com

WHAT IS HOLDING PATTERN?
Holding Pattern is the only screen saver that celebrates the quiet beauty of the aerial view, as seen from an airplane window. Realistic, gentle animation and superb photography make it the ultimate screensaver journey. This special edition of the screensaver was made just for David Byrne and Brian Eno, and features photographic contributions from David Byrne.

World Travel
Sit back and enjoy the visual splendor of 57 fresh photographic locations—from the majestic American West to the Great Barrier Reef of Australia.

Time Zones
Watch time change as your screen saver plays: bright daytime, warm sunset, jeweled midnight, delicate colors of morning.

Flight Path
Soar over mountains, cities, or clouds—even choose a bird's eye view. Eight unique flight paths in all.

Realistic Sound
Audio options include relaxing engine hum and more...

Customize Your Flight
Adapt the flight to your needs with tons of user-settable options. Tweak plane population, flight speed, and more. Multiple monitor feature lets you coordinate more than one screen.
May you and your computer have a beautiful flight!

Seb Rochford plays drums on this record. It's... pleasant if slightly geriatric art pop.

I Feel My Stuff is pretty awesome.

Wanted for Life is as well! I'm enjoying this in its entirety.

Some tech background for the distribution nerds: http://topspinmedia.com/2008/08/david-byrne-and-brian-eno-release-everything-that-happens-will-happen-today-on-the-topspin-platform/

I am hearing Flaming Lips too, Jon, and not in a good way.

(Only heard this on laptop speakers so take that with a pinch of salt.)

a dissapointing album. eno's songwriting is just plain dull nowadays and the arrangements are never very interesting. i do miss all the arty weirdness that made those early albums so great.

i got about three songs into this and had to turn it off. so dull. sorry. my expectations were very high.

i heard that the guy from system of a downs was going to produce the next brian eno album. can u verify this from me.

I was disappointed and then on about the 6th spin it all just TOOK:

Review in Village Voice:

http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-08-27/music/coping-with-david-byrne-brian-eno/

I'm about to hit that level, Pete. I read your review a couple of hours ago; I nodded a lot. This album doesn't rise to the level of Wrong Way Up as an album of grand, static art-pop -- the physical distance b/w the two creators cramps Byrne's lyrics and especially his singing -- but "The River" rivals WWU's "The River," and "One Fine Day" truly belongs.

I wish I'd had the album when I took Highway 61 and other smaller byways to get to Madison because fricking 94 was flooded, what with that lyric about the river coming up over the freeway. I take "The River" to be about punk rock and rock and roll, where the song that seems to be about music, "Strange Overtones," feels like its about something else.

Love Matos's piece:

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=649397&ms

This sounds a bit like Tom Petty.

the buy now button wont work for me. ha! here i was feeling all warm and fuzzy paying *actual money* for some mp3's from an artist i admire, but a few minutes of inconvenience and it's "soulseek here i come" :/

haha what--

Access to this web page is restricted at this time.

Reason:
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The "Songs of David Byrne & Brian Eno" tour is coming to the UK in March/April. Not announced yet, but there's a pre-sale at artistticket dot com.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_of_David_Byrne_and_Brian_Eno_Tour

The official press release has just gone out. I got four front row seats for Nottingham a few minutes ago, via the pre-sale.

March 27 Bristol Colston Hall
March 29 Birmingham Symphony Hall
March 30 Manchester Bridgewater Hall
March 31 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
April 1 Gateshead The Sage
April 3 Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
April 4 Sheffield City Hall
April 6 Dublin National Concert Hall
April 7 Belfast Waterfront
April 9 Oxford New Theatre Oxford
April 11 Nottingham Royal Centre
April 12 London Royal Festival Hall
April 13 London Royal Festival Hall
April 14 Brighton Dome

Eno playing "I Feel My Stuff" for the interviewer in this video is suprisingly similar to the embarrassing way I play songs for people:

https://youtu.be/DqTv_Nlk-eM