Tune of the Week: Eno & Byrne

In 1980 David Byrne and Brian Eno were on a break between recording the Talking Heads’ albums “Fear of Music” and “Remain in Light”. They didn’t take much of a break as they proceeded to create what would become a precursor to a slew of beat and sample based albums to come for decades. The result, “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts”, took spoken and sung vocal samples from all over the world and placed them on top of funky and disjointed rhythms created by the duo. In this example you can hear the call of a Lebanese mountain singer mix with the funkier-than-thou vibes of bassist Busta “Cherry” Jones. Sample based production would take off from here, popping up in the realms of techno, hiphop and pop music.