Artist: David Byrne Genre(s):
Experimental
Rock: Pop-Rock
Rock
Ethnic
Discography:
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Feelings Year: 1997
Tracks: 14
The Forest Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
Rei Momo Year: 1989
Tracks: 15
Music For The Knee Plays Year: 1985
Tracks: 12
Music for The Knee Plays Year: 1985
Tracks: 12
The Catherine Wheel Year: 1981
Tracks: 23
Uh-Oh Year:
Tracks: 12
Grown Backwards Year:
Tracks: 14
David Byrne Year:
Tracks: 12
Best known for his groundbreaking ceremony term of office fronting the new wave mathematical group Talking Heads, David Byrne's solo work, spell non as successful, was no less adventuresome, encroaching upon such various media as humanity euphony, filmmaking, and performance fine art. Born May 14, 1952, in Dumbarton, Scotland, Byrne was raised in Baltimore, MD. The boy of an electronics applied scientist, he played guitar in a series of teen bands earlier attending the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design, where, impression disoriented from the largely upper class pupil population, he dropped out after one year. However, he remained in the Providence area, playing solo on a ukelele before forming the Artistics (besides known as the Autistics) with mate students Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth.
After ever-changing the name of the band to Talking Heads and recruitment old Modern Lover Jerry Harrison, the radical signed to Sire Records; a series of LPs, including the debut
Talking Heads '77, 1978's
More Songs About Buildings and Food, and 1980's
Remain in Light followed, establishing the quartette as one of contemporaneous music's most visionary talents. During a band sabbatic in 1981, Byrne teamed with Brian Eno, the producer of practically of the Heads' work, for the collaborative feat
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, a building complex, remindful album which consolidated electronic medicine with Third World percussion and hypnotic outspoken effects. That same yr, Byrne besides began exploring theatre of operations, composition
The Complete Score From the Broadway Production of "The Catherine Wheel," a dance piece choreographed by Twyla Tharp.
Byrne's next solo work appeared in 1985 with
The Knee Plays, a New Orleans boldness band-influenced image composed for a share of Robert Wilson's theatrical larger-than-life CIVIL warS. In 1986, Byrne wrote, asterisked in, and directed the feature film
True Stories, a series of comical vignettes based on press clippings culled from tabloid publications like the Weekly World News. He besides wrote and produced the legal age of music for the film's sexual conquest in add-on to performing his usual duties for that year's Talking Heads LP, besides named
True Stories. In 1988, he wrote the score to the Jonathan Demme comedy
Married to the Mob and, in tandem bicycle with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su, north Korean won an Academy Award for his melodic put to work on Bernardo Bertolucci's diachronic larger-than-life
The Last Emperor.
Besides in 1988, Byrne's enthrallment with world music, a longtime influence on his herky-jerky operation style as advantageously as Talking Heads' building complex polyrhythms, inspired him to form his possess record book label, Luaka Bop, to sacrifice widespread American release to world music. That same yr, the Heads released
Naked, their last proper LP, going away Byrne to sacrifice future solo ferment his full attention. In 1989, he resurfaced with
Rei Momo, a assembling inspired by Latin rhythms, and besides directed the documentary
Ile Aiye (The House of Life), which focused on the rituals of Yoruban dance music. In 1991, he once more collaborated with Robert Wilson on The Forest, writing music for a full orchestra.
1992's
Uh-Oh marked Byrne's return to more than conventional rock performance, a focal point continued on a self-titled effort issued in 1994.
Feelings, recorded with members of Morcheeba and Devo, followed in 1997. Four age later,
Look Into the Eyeball was issued on Virgin Records/Luaka Bop and captured Byrne's key signature ironic humor and musical diverseness. In 2003, Byrne's music for the film
Young Adam (featuring members of Belle & Sebastian and Mogwai) was released as
Lead Us Not Into Temptation by the Thrill Jockey label.
Adult Backwards, his first for Nonesuch, appeared a year subsequently. In 2007 Byrne released a CD/DVD adaptation of
The Knee Plays that featured the 12 original tracks along with octonary demos and outtakes.
