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Brian Eno / David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

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Record Details

Artists: Brian Eno / David Byrne
Title: My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Format: 12"Reissue
Label: EG
Cat No: EGLP 48
Country:
Genres: FunkTribalAvantgardeExperimentalAmbient
Status Have
Added To List 26th December 2023
Disc 1 | 12"
Very Good
No Notes 
A Matrix:
EGLP 48 A-1U-1-1- TOWN HOUSE D  
B Matrix:
EGLP 48 E̶G̶L̶P̶ ̶4̶8̶ ̶B̶-̶1̶ ̶U̶-̶1̶-1- D  

Additional Information

Comments Reissue from approximately 1987. Direct Metal Master as indicated by 'D' in the runouts.

1st Cat# on labels. 2nd Cat# on back cover and spine.

Tracks are numbered from 1 to 11 on the sleeve.

Track B1 "Very, Very Hungry" replaces "Qu'ran" as used on the 1st UK pressing.

Runouts are stamped except 'Town House' is etched.

Title from a novel by Amos Tutuola.

Voices:
1. Unidentified indignant radio host, San Francisco, April 1980.
2. Inflamed caller and smooth politician replying, both unidentified. Radio call-in show, New York, July 1979.
3. Dunya Yusin, Lebanese mountain singer (From 'The Human Voice in the World of Islam' Tangent Records TGS 131).
4. Reverend Paul Morton, broadcast sermon, New Orleans, June 1980.
5. Unidentified exorcist, New York, September 1980.

7. The Moving Star Hall Singers, Sea Islands, Georgia (From 'The Moving Star Hall Singers' Folkways FS 3841).
8. Dunya Yusin. (See 3).
9. Samira Tewfik, Egyptian popular singer. (From 'Les Plus Grandes Artistes du Monde Arabe' EMI Records).
10. Unidentified radio evangelist, San Francisco, April 1980.

Rooks on A4 recorded at Eglingham Hall.

Studios:
RPM, New York. August 4 & 16, 1979.
Blue Rock, New York. September 5, 1979.
Eldorado, Los Angeles. During February & March 1980.
Different Fur, San Francisco. During April 1980.
Sigma, New York. During October 1980.

Special thanks to David Jerden.

David Byrne appears courtesy of Sire Records.
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