David Byrne – My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Easily the best sounding pressing of this important album. Snare a copy if you can!

A brilliant sounding German pressing of probably one of the most important records of the last century, important then and in our present time. And it takes a lot of good English to explain, why and how. To give it a try: There are a lot of voices of religious heritage besides each other from track to track, beautiful or menacing or both at the same time, Christian, Islam, and other, more obscure ones, framed with sound without any animosity towards any of them, acknowledging each one's validity simply by embedding them in brilliant music. And there are at the same time political voices, that practice treason on themselves just by the way they sound, while serving again the beauty of the music. Speaking of the music, highlights are and have been at the time of their release: "The Jezebel Spirit", a Disco classic from the times of the famous Paradise Garage in NYC (that there was to be heard an unidentified exorcist in this dance track was of no importance for the dancers, probably they took it as an interesting atmospheric sound). Regiment, another dance music for New Wave Clubs and Punk venues, very intense, with the voice of a female Lebanese mountain singer. "Help Me Somebody", again made for dancing yourself into a trance. The beautiful "Moonlight In Glory" you might hear while driving a car though a lonely night somewhere in the countryside. And last but not least the first track on side B, that later was cancelled (cancel culture already then) in later releases, just because some religious people would not accept, that their beautiful and holy lyrics would be used for a magnificent piece of art, and will threaten the life of people who would dare to release this kind of art. Talking about culture(s). And the knowledge about tolerance, that comes with that. All this is very actual today (<very bad English, translated intoa little better English: all this is very up-to-date)