https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/11/better-late-than-never-how-brian-eno-and-david-byrne-finally-laid-a-musical-ghost-to-rest
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 August 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
that's really interesting, thanks!
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Thursday, 11 August 2022 17:12 (one year ago) link
The Rolling Stone article mentioned towards the end is fascinating as well: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/my-life-in-the-bush-of-ghosts-252823/
I was expecting "sampling isn't real music" but it's a lot more nuanced, and encapsulates all of the criticisms that were levelled at world music many years later. Eno and Byrne just brush it off in their article.
So, I guess people from the past weren't a bunch of stupid racists after all. It also reminds me that I haven't read anything at all by Marshall McLuhan. He was huge before I was born, but when I was young it was all No Logo and whatever else you were supposed to pretend to read to be hip. McLuhan was a bit old-hat back then. I learn from the internet that he wasn't a real Marshall. That was just his name.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Thursday, 11 August 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
I never thought that Pareles review was able to land a convincing blow. Like: "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts does make me wonder, though, how Byrne or Eno would react if Dunya Yusin spliced together a little of 'Animals' and a bit of 'The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch,' then added her idea of a suitable backup. Does this global village have two-way traffic?"... Is he really suggesting he thinks they'd be upset? Seems like they would each have died to hear what that would have sounded like!
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 11 August 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link
No Dunya Younes albums on Spotify
― curmudgeon, Friday, 12 August 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR715ql1-Fk
― MaresNest, Friday, 24 March 2023 19:55 (one year ago) link
that is awesome
― tylerw, Friday, 24 March 2023 20:14 (one year ago) link