![]() ![]() ![]() The first side ends with the perfect manifestation of Eno’s shimmering electronics, Byrne’s paranoid persona and the Heads’ funky rhythm section, Once in a Lifetime. The Great Curve plays up Eno’s playful side with layered vocals (including the inimitable Nona Hendryx), lots of percussion and Adrian Belew’s elephant-sized guitar solo. Imagine Fela Kuti after a fistful of speed, handcuffed to a mental patient and fleeing through a digital jungle-that’s what it sounds like. The next track, Crosseyed and Painless, is even better. ![]() Postmodern primitivism, paranoia and an irresistible undercurrent of funk flood the senses, and don’t relent for forty minutes. Now, that first pedantic paragraph will hardly prepare you for the shock of hearing Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On). Mixing elements of Afrobeat, ambient music (courtesy of master sound sculptor Eno), American funk and the avant-garde, Remain in Light was unlike anything before it, except maybe for “I Zimbra.” For my money, it was the best album in a very good year for music, and remains a high-water mark of rock & roll in the twentieth century. Remain in Light brings the experiment into the home of Talking Heads and became their most adventurous album to date. Unbeknownst to most of us, David Byrne and Brian Eno were cooking up an entirely new kind of music in a different kitchen, the results of which would finally appear as My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Kronomyth 4.0: My high life in the bush of ghosts. © 1980 Sire Records Company.Afrobeat, ambient and avant-garde collide on Remain In Light, creating the quintessential college rock album. Greg Calbi, MasteringEngineer - Kendal Stubbs, AdditionalEngineer - Johnny Potoker, MixingEngineer, AdditionalEngineer - Jose Rossy, Percussion - Rhett Davies, AdditionalEngineer - JERRY HARRISON, Producer, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Backing Vocals, Writer, Guitarra - Brian Eno, Producer, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Piano, Production, Backing Vocals, Writer, Spoken Voice Vocals, MixingEngineer, VocalArranger - DAVE JERDEN, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Adrian Belew, Guitar, Synthesizer Guitar - Robert Palmer, Percussion - David Byrne, Producer, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Lead Vocals, Writer, Guitarra, MixingEngineer, VocalArranger - Chris Frantz, Producer, Drums, Keyboards, Percussion, Backing Vocals, Writer - Tina Weymouth, Producer, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Backing Vocals, Writer - Talking Heads, MainArtist - Jon Hassell, Horn, Trumpet - Nona Hendryx, Backing Vocals - Jack Nuber, AdditionalEngineer - Stephen Stanley, AdditionalEngineer ![]()
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