My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (album)
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| Studio album by Brian Eno & David Byrne | |||||
| Released | February 1981 | ||||
| Recorded | August 4, 1979 – October 1980 | ||||
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| Length | 39:40 | ||||
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| Label | Sire/Warner Bros. | ||||
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| AllMusic |  |
| Rolling Stone |  |
| The Village Voice | C+ |
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| Blender | |
| Entertainment Weekly | A− |
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| Pitchfork | 8.5/10 |
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My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is the first collaborative album by Brian Eno and David Byrne, released in February 1981. It is titled after Amos Tutuola's 1954 novel of the same name. Recorded by Eno and Byrne in between their work on Talking Heads projects, the album integrates sampled vocals and found sounds, African and Middle Eastern rhythms, and electronic music techniques. While it received mixed reviews upon its release, My Life is now widely regarded as a high point in the discographies of Eno and Byrne.
The album has since been called a "pioneering work for countless styles connected to electronics, ambience and Third World music". The extensive use of sampling on the album is widely considered ground-breaking and innovative, though its actual influence on the sample-based music genres that later emerged continues to be debated.Pitchfork listed My Life in the Bush of Ghosts as the 21st best album of the 1980s, while Slant Magazine listed the album at No. 83 on its list of the "Best Albums of 1980s".
Eno and Byrne first worked together while collaborating on More Songs About Buildings and Food, the 1978 album by Byrne's band Talking Heads. My Life was primarily recorded during a break between touring for Fear of Music (1979) and the recording of Remain in Light (1980), subsequent Talking Heads albums also produced by Eno, but the release was delayed while legal rights were sought for the large number of samples used throughout the album. Eno described the album as a "vision of a psychedelic Africa."
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