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

like Ned hinted at, Hassell does not have the copyright on cross-cultural tape collage -- Czukay / Dammers' 'Canaxis' 1968, Richard Maxfield's 'Bacchanale', 1963, and James Tenney's 'Viet Flakes' 1967, all worth mentioning in reviews if you're going to get archival on us -- none of those are pop, though even there there's precedent in Czukay's 'Movies' from 1979.

Hassell overstates his case, he already had amazing solo records out & there's no confusion as to who was doing what, though yeah it would have been great if he'd been in on the sessions for this record.

Not to be too self-promoting, but I wrote a little bit about this here, although the second installment of the column will really get into the post-Eno/Byrne landscape in greater depth. I note that other posters here have covered some of the same key pieces as well.

H8erz who bag on this record = teh suq, UR all ghey

My ex-partner, whom I otherwise loved on several zillion counts, absolutely HATED my taste in music. He endlessly mocked my Steve Reich, Cocteau Twins, Kate Bush, and Stina Nordenstam, whom I otherwise need to listen to every day.

Needless to say, I did say ex-partner...

who has the skinny on the re-release?

The Ghosts record isn't considered a Talking Heads record, hence no DualDisc, Geir.

The story I'd heard is the one Naive tells, that as Eno became more and more involved with the band - and remember, he'd been around since their first LP - Harrison et al. got sick of being the backup for the Byrne and Eno Show.

http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2WL2GT7XI83EP0KFMOF1N31CKM

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)