The Forest (album)
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| Studio album by David Byrne | ||||
| Released | June 1991 | |||
| Recorded | 1990–91 | |||
| Genre | Classical | |||
| Length | 61:34 | |||
| Label | Luaka Bop/Warner Bros. Records | |||
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The Forest is a mostly instrumental album by David Byrne, released in 1991, inspired by the Epic of Gilgamesh and set during the later Industrial Revolution. Some of the music from this orchestral album was originally used in a Robert Wilson directed theatre piece with the same name. The Forest premiered at the Theater der Freien Volksbühne, West Berlin in 1988.
All tracks composed by David Byrne:
"The Forestry" is a maxi-single by David Byrne containing dance and industrial remixes of pieces from The Forest by Jack Dangers, Rudy Tambala, and Anthony Capel.
Art Direction: Robin Lynch and David Byrne. Design by Robin Lynch. Front cover, "Feed Pump Pipework, Hinkley Point" by Douglass Allen. Back cover, "Fodermaschinist" Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum. Inside, "The Forest" by David Byrne.
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