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    ETHOS (I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS) liked and reviewed My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
    
    "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything"
    
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    ZonalGman favorited and reviewed My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
    
    A masterpiece from Eno & Byrne. When you consider all the sampling was done in the days of analogue tech before MIDI & digi sequencing was invented.
    
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    Miss Eighties reviewed My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
    
    Listening to "Mea Culpa", great dark song.
    
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    colonialdude2 favorited and reviewed My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
    
    brian eno has created a new musical form. most people don’t get it, but say 20 years from now ambient music will be common. david byrne african rhythms input in this is another musical genius at work.
    
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    Matthew Kasten liked and reviewed My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
    
    Great album! A total suprise
    
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    Les Moriarty liked and reviewed My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
    
    This was the start of many ideas and thoughts in today's music.
    
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    Patrick Anthony reviewed My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
    
    great album.....
    
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    Daniel Justin Murray liked and reviewed My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
    
    Predominantly horror, but a masterpiece nonetheless. I have the original release - I love that cover. I'd like to see Brian's short film it was taken from. I swear I was meant to hear "Help Me... more
    
    Predominantly horror, but a masterpiece nonetheless. I have the original release - I love that cover. I'd like to see Brian's short film it was taken from. I swear I was meant to hear "Help Me Somebody"..like Reverend Paul Morton was speaking to me.... "Mountain of Needles" is precisely that - how they manage to express something so specific, yet so obscure is incredible. Reminds me of those toys you can make impressions in the needles...
    
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    Lambdac0re liked and reviewed My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
    
    interesting music
    
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Brian Eno and David Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts appears downright visionary. With its "found" vocals, cut-and-paste arrangements, funked-up rhythms and embrace of influences from all around the globe, the duo's controversial work anticipated the creative cross-pollination and technological innovation of contemporary dance music, world music, hip hop and alternative rock. You can hear echoes of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts in the anthems Moby built around vintage vocal samples, in the outrageously exotic beats of Missy Elliot and Timbaland, in the Middle Eastern accented chill-out tracks of Thievery Corporation or Bjork's otherworldly soundscapes.Released in 1981, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is a collaboration between ambient pioneer Brian Eno and Talking Heads frontman David Byrne. On Ghosts, the two strong-willed musicians manage to come to a meeting of the minds, blending Byrne's herky-jerky funk with Eno's atmospheric sound sculpting. More than anything, this is a large album, intent on pushing itself to the front of the listener's consciousness. Abundant percussion (everything from booming tribal drums to eerie electronics) reverberates in the background while Byrne and Eno toss all manner of found sounds, field recordings, and radio broadcasts into the mix. What results is a groundbreaking album that introduced a generation to the dazzling possibilities offered by electronic recording techniques. Highlights include "The Jezebel Spirit," an electro-funk workout that uses a recording of an exorcism as its focal point, and "Very, Very Hungry," a mysteriously ethereal display of electronic percussion and large-scale sonic architecture. --S. Duda

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By Brian Eno, 2006

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