Eno/Byrne's My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts Reissued?

Jean Michel Jarre's Zoolook. Honestly.

Any chance of another re-up, someone? Pretty please?

http://download.yousendit.com/300B8AC731FAF5D1

72 Mb zip file, 14 tracks (13 from the boot + Qu'ran)

Anyway, got it, thanks very much myfullname.

beta.yousendit.com = uploads expire after 10 downloads !? damn
On the plus side, no annoying adverts... yet.

Nice to see some Zoolook love here though. I think it's often my favourite.

Okay, I suppose I was remembering there being more dated robo-funk on this album, but having listened to it again, "Zoolook (Remix)" is the only track that doesn't hold up much for me. I stand corrected. Really, few have done as much with language (as opposed to simply voices) as Jarre did on this album...

But let's not forget this: Analog Synthesizer Epics: S/D, POV

All of the multitracks from two of the album's songs will be available for download on a special website, www.bush-of-ghosts.com, which will go live approximately one month before the reissue's release. Users can remix the tracks and upload them, listen and rate other users' remixes, and create and upload their own videos inspired by the album's songs. In addition, the site will feature archival material dating back to the record's original production and release, including press, session photos, polaroids taken by Byrne, and a video for "Mea Culpa" directed by Bruce Conner. The video will also be included on the CD reissue.

Anything involving Bruce Conner is good. So maybe this will be a DualDisc then?

I hadn't even heard of his video for "Mea Culpa", that is exciting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pIGbxx9uWk

This reissue is sounding better and better all the time.

The packaging reminds me of the CD/DVD reissue of 'World of Echo', though.

We are sorry for any inconvenience this causes.

(Amazon.co.uk first had March 28th, has now been changed to April 11th)

-- Brakhage (cognitivebia...) (webmail), February 16th, 2006 3:51 PM. (brakhage) (link)

i'm sorry, but this had me laughing.. nice of you to bring attention to one of your peers.

http://bushofghosts.wmg.com/watch_video.php

Please don't share that demos zip file from upthread anymore, the demos from in there are on the remastered edition (reworked versions, I think, they're not 100% the same). Here's the three that we knew from the crackly vinyl bootleg:

Pitch to Voltage (= cunning tendacy = on the way to zagora)
Two Against Three (= iron bed = the friends of amos tutuola)
Vocal Outtakes (not on the bootlegs) (weird vocal effects)
New Feet (not on the bootlegs) (weird rhythmical eastern thing)
Defiant (not on the bootlegs) (very different version of The Jezebel Spirit and Lot/Into The Spirit World)
Number 8 Mix (= late but not serious = les hommes ne sauront jamais)
Solo Guitar with Tin Foil (not on the bootlegs) (quiet ambient track, completely different from everything else on this disc)

First impression of the sound: much louder than before. it's not as drastic as I had expected, but the sound is WAY better. (I had feared the removal of all the tape hiss, but they haven't done that, so it still sounds like the analog cut+paste experiment it really is instead of some clinically clean digital sampler sequence they could have made from it.)

Very nice packaging & booklet. Essay by David Toop and a kind of Making Of report by Eno & Byrne, plus some of the studio pics that are also on the www.bush-of-ghosts.com site.

(... and the 4 new tracks we didn't.)

But the one I just bought is Virgin Records/EMI and made in EU, release date March 27th. The one I had on preorder from Amazon UK was the import version, they added the regular European edition after I placed that order.

Anyway. Nevermind. I was slightly confused but now I finally understand the release dates are two weeks apart.

While making this mp3 file for you all (10 seconds of Regiment from EGCD48, half a second of silence and the same 10 seconds from the new edition), I found out that this section is at 2:40 on the old CD and at 2:54 on the new one. So they've done more than just clean up the old tapes.

Compare: 2 x 10 seconds of Regiment. (662 kb mp3 file, 256 kb/sec LAME compression, ripped with EAC, same settings, same drive, no normalization)

Had a quick listen to the bonus tracks this morning. I could be wrong - I haven't done a side-by-side comparison or anything - but I reckon those demo files are still not redundant, not by a long chalk.

Anyway, what I really came here to say was:
- in the booklet there are great photos of Byrne and (especially) Eno in the studio looking geeky, plus new essays by David Toop and Byrne & Eno
- the booklet mentions that there are 2 tracks to download from a website that, after signing a license agreement, you are allowed to remix and sample in any way you like
- I couldn't see anywhere in the credits of the CD the list of sound sources / samples used (i.e. the ones that were on the original LP sleeve), which I thought was a bit odd.

No, you're right, I recognised them in my previous message, but after listening to the bootleg again, I agree that the versions are very different indeed.

Also: new vocals at the end of The Carrier again? (there's one vocal on the three versions, but the demo had another second vocal, and this remaster has another second vocal, if I'm not mistaken)

New mix sounds more claustrophobic and bass-heavy but I'm sure I'll get into it when I have the whole CD to listen to.

And the "remixes" part of their site is still "coming soon" - probably around April 11, when the US edition is released, I expect.

is it just the website, or can someone with a physical copy confirm if the actual CD carries a creative commons license as well?

The bad:
Another one of these damn cheap cardboard sleeves. You know, the ones that are so tight that it's a bitch to extract the jewel case and you're going to end up destroying it anyway or throwing it out since it has nothing inherently useful.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/The_Medium_is_the_Massage_cover.jpg

I first heard it when I was 20 (in 2000) and it was quite possibly the record that made the fact that something special had been doing on "post-punk," that the Talking Heads and Elvis Costello and Siouxsie & the Banshees and Gang of Four and Wire records I loved weren't abberitions. I think it startled me because it was borrowing from music from around the world *without* being awful hippie "world music," which I didn't know was the modus operandi of art/underground music of the time.

It probably says something that your ears are no so accustomed to the hybridisation this record captures that because of its relative simplicity you associate it with hippie appropriation from an earlier time (a la Beatles re: sitars, hippies re: drum circles, Paul Simon a la "Me and Julio").

which is why I'm so allergic to the packaging on this reissue putting so much energy into making a case for it's 'importance', the new digital cover, the essays, the many boring pictures of them in the studio taking up full pages... the original packaging was perfect and author-anonymous. the new record ditches the sample attribtions in favor of a long winded toop essay about how important this record is. it's a fine essay, but bundling it with the record even puts me off and I love this record.

also... the new tracks are worth hearing but they're even more ephemeral and inconclusive... great to hear, but they do dilute the impact of the original record. calling them 'side 3' instead of 'auxillary' is going pretty far.

I've been enjoying the bad reviews the reissue's gotten though, they're validating... this record still isn't for anyone

well, ok then. for me the sound design is the main appeal on this record. I'm hooked three seconds into the first track.

George Harrison was actually a fairly decent player - nowhere near the way that Hindustani classical players can play, but I think the Beatles used sitar well and he wrote some good songs after having studied No. Indian classical music some. Mike Heron of the Incredible String Band was also a decent player.

How is this album a more "intelligent" use of world music elements?