Reading up on Bruce Conner today (I dint know he died last year ~~ sniff) I was blessed to come across the following video he did for "Mea Culpa" from the Byrne/Eno collaboration.
Sometimes you must do something because you should, as in you must listen to this record because it should have been something you did a long time ago.
Allmusic: A pioneering work for countless styles connected to electronics, ambience, and Third World music, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts expands on the fourth-world concepts of Hassell/Eno work with a whirlwind 45 minutes of worldbeat/funk-rock (with the combined talents of several percussionists and bassists, including Bill Laswell, Tim Wright, David van Tieghem, and Talking Heads' Chris Frantz) that's also heavy on the samples -- from radio talk-show hosts, Lebanese mountain singers, preachers, exorcism ceremonies, Muslim chanting, and Egyptian pop, among others. It's also light years away from the respectful, preservationist angles of previous generations' field recorders and folk song gatherers. The songs on My Life in the Bush of Ghosts present myriad elements from around the world in the same jumbled stew, without regard for race, creed, or color. As such, it's a tremendously prescient record for the future development of music during the 1980s and '90s.
Hear
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The link doesn't go anywhere, homeslice.
Fixed homeskillet
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