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Brian Eno + David Byrne - Defiant

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

Label:
Catalog#:
2302 100, 2302 100
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:
Netherlands
Released:
1981
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Tribal, Electro, Experimental

Tracklist

A1   America Is Waiting 3:36 X
    Arranged By - Laswell* , Eno* , Byrne* , Van Tieghem* , Wright*
  Bass - Bill Laswell
  Bass [Click] - Tim Wright (2)
  Drums, Percussion - David Van Tieghem
A2   Mea Culpa 3:45 X
    Bodhrán - Dennis Keeley
A3   Regiment 3:56 X
    Arranged By - Eno* , Jones* , Frantz* , Byrne* , Fripp*
  Bass - Busta Jones
  Drums - Chris Frantz
  Drums, Percussion - David Van Tieghem
  Voice - Dunya Yusin
  Written-By - Jones*
A4   Help Me Somebody 4:18 X
    Congas, Percussion [Metals] - Steve Scales
  Drums - John Cooksey
  Voice - Reverend Paul Morton
A5   The Jezebel Spirit 5:00 X
    Bass Drum, Percussion [Can] - Prairie Prince
  Bata, Percussion [Sticks] - Mingo Lewis
B1   Qu'ran 3:46
    Drums - John Cooksey
B2   Moonlight In Glory 4:46 X
    Congas, Gong [Agong-gong] - Jose Rossy
  Voice - Moving Star Hall Singers, The
B3   The Carrier 3:30 X
    Bass Drum, Percussion [Can] - Prairie Prince
  Bata, Percussion [Sticks] - Mingo Lewis
  Voice - Dunya Yusin
B4   A Secret Life 2:30 X
    Voice - Samira Tewfik
B5   Come With Us 2:38 X
B6   Mountain Of Needles 2:35 X

Credits

Artwork By [From A Video By] - Brian Eno
Artwork By [Typography] - Peter Saville
Engineer - Dave Jerden , Eddie Korvin , John Potoker , Neal Teeman , Stacy Baird
Engineer [Assistant] - Don Mack , George Sloane , Howard Johnston , Hugh Dwyer , Michael Ewasko
Guitar, Bass, Synthesizer, Drums, Percussion, Performer [Found Objects] - Brian Eno , David Byrne
Mastered By - Greg Calbi
Producer - Brian Eno , David Byrne
Written-By - Eno* , Byrne*

Notes

The tracks are numbered from 1 to 11 on the Sleeve.
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, 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.
6. Algerian Muslims chanting Qu'ran. (Same source as 3).
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.

On later editions of this album the track "Qu'ran" was omited because of religious reasons.

℗© 1981 EG Records Limited
Made in Holland
Marketed by Polydor B.V.
Printed in Holland

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