My Life In The Bush of Ghosts
	Produced by Brian Eno and David Byrne
	Released on February 1981
	UK CHART POSITION #29 . . . US CHART POSITION #44
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SRK 6093 cover [high resolution scan]

F rom I Zimbra to Aye Carumba. The perfess'r and his star pupil went mixed media multicultural medieval on us with My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, taking their newfound fascination with funk and cannibalizing the best parts of it for their own bizarre experiments. Again to my chagrin, I was convinced this was the future of music: different voices from all over the world mixed with advanced electronics to create a stunning mosaic. Maybe this is our future; listen to “Regiment” or “America Is Waiting” and you realize that we still haven’t caught up with Ghosts. I’d caught a glimpse of this future earlier with artists like Holger Czukay and Talking Heads (Remain In Light floored me), but that was only the beginning. My Life is the last word on the pancultural avant garde music that the Heads were making. In fact, nothing that either Byrne or Eno has released since matches My Life, in my opinion. It’s a thought-provoking, mind-expanding, enlightening, frightening, UFO (unidentified funky objective) sighting. The painstaking detail required to get all the tiny pieces to fit together perfectly (which they do) represents a monumental achievement. I’m surprised Byrne and Eno were even talking to each other after this album. By juxtaposing third world and modern world elements, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts arrives at an alien beauty. It’s not just that I haven’t heard music like this before; I haven’t listened to music like this before. It changes the way you approach music. If language is a virus from outer space, My Life is that language set to music. Everyone should hear this album at least once in their lives. Once heard, it won’t soon be forgotten.

TRACK LISTING

1. AMERICA IS WAITING    (Brian Eno/David Byrne, arr. by Brian Eno/David Byrne/Bill Laswell/Tim Wright/David van Tieghem)    3:36
2. MEA CULPA    3:35
3. REGIMENT    (Brian Eno/David Byrne/Busta Jones, arr. by Brian Eno/David Byrne/Busta Jones/Chris Frantz/Robert Fripp)    3:56
4. HELP ME SOMEBODY    4:18
5. THE JEZEBEL SPIRIT    4:55
6. QU'RAN    3:46
7. MOONLIGHT IN GLORY    4:19
8. THE CARRIER    3:30
9. A SECRET LIFE    2:30
10. COME WITH US    2:38
11. MOUNTAIN OF NEEDLES    2:35
    
    CD reissue bonus tracks
    
12. PITCH TO VOLTAGE
13. TWO AGAINST THREE
14. VOCAL OUTTAKES
15. NEW FEET
16. DEFIANT
17. NUMBER 8 MIX
18. SOLO GUITAR WITH TIN FOIL
    
    Tracks 1-11 written by Brian Eno/David Byrne unless noted

CREDITS

DAVID BYRNE -- guitars, basses, synthesizers, drums, percussion, found objects
BRIAN ENO -- guitars, basses, synthesizers, drums, percussion, found objects
John Cockey -- drums (4,6)
Chris Frantz -- drums (3)
Busta Jones -- bass (3)
Dennis Keeley -- bodhran (2)
Bill Laswell -- bass (1)
Mingo Lewis -- bata, sticks (5,8)
Prairie Prince -- can, bass drum (5,8)
Jose Rossy -- congas, agong-gong (7)
Steve Scales -- congas, metals (4)
David van Tieghem -- drums, percussion (1,3)
Tim Wright -- click bass (1)
Stacy Baird -- engineer
Dave Jerden -- engineer
Eddie Korvin -- engineer
John Potoker -- engineer
Neal Teeman -- engineer

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