My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

A bit too experimental for me, can’t say I was really a fan of this.

Much respect to both of these individual artists. This bored the fuck out of me.

2/5

Two GOATS. This album is so cool. The sampling is just insane, and the end result is just such a satisfying jammy psychedelic feast. Love it!

I just kept waiting for this to get good. Halfway through the album I gave up.

Boy, what a bunch of quirky yet funky grooves, if only two extremely talented vocalists were attached to this, it would be better with actual lyrics. Shame no one was available.

Delightfully weird.

New Wave's very own Dark Side of the Moon. Blokes would nod sagely and tell you to listen to this on a set of really good headphones.

I disagree with Moby and anyone else who liked this

Not for me

I'm sure this was reveltatory at it's time but in 2024, this just sounds like something you'd randomly stumble across on soundcloud

Kiinnostava levy ja kai aika uraauurtava samplausmusan genressä.

Good interesting album, deserves to be on the list, but not one I’ll be rushing back to, I’d rather just listen to talking heads.

For this review, I’m sticking to the track listing of the 1981 second edition, with no bonus tracks factored.

From what I can gather, producer Brian Eno previously worked with David Byrne on prior albums with the latter’s group the Talking Heads. This album marked the first time the two collaborated separate from that group.

Inspired by Eno’s trip to Ghana for a West African music festival, this album takes sampled recordings from around the world and puts them over funk guitar riffs and percussive rhythms.

All this to say that it’s a very ambient album, where the samples take the place of lead vocals. It helps that the instrumental compositions in the background get pretty groovy in places such as on “Help Me Somebody”. Sure, some recordings sound a bit dated, but they never feel overwhelming in the mix. Not a lot of tracks stand out, but again it’s largely ambient and meant for the whole experience.

Overall, I enjoyed this album a lot more than I expected. Give it a shot.

God I love Brian Eno

God love the 1980s... an innovation of sampling and synthesizing experimentation, or an incoherent mess? You decide. Still "art" though init!

The sound of two old white men tuggin’ each other off.

Man man man. Prima dat je een of andere exorcist opneemt hoor. Maar daaronder zit dan een jaren 80 muziekje met een geluidje hier en een geluidje daar. En samen telt het op tot niets... Hebben we het niet eens over de jengelgeluiden zoals op Regiment...1,5 ster.

I liked all the Talking Heads albums this this thrown at me, I liked the Eno album too, so logic dictates I should like this.

I did not.

What an odd yet engaging album. Such different sounds from multiple nationalities but a heavy African influence. Interesting to listen to but not something I would listen to again which is a shame as this app has got me into talking heads.

I am not normally a fan of heavily instrumental music. This album had some good moments though and I understand the importance of this album.

Favourite song: Regiment for sure
Least favourite song: very very hungry
Album artwork: Great cover I love it.

What a superb collage of sounds, from ambient to upbeat, from languid to dramatic.