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Featured Release
Caetano Veloso + David Byrne
Live at Carnegie Hall
In 2004, Caetano Veloso curated a week of special concerts at New York’s Carnegie Hall and invited his longtime friend and collaborator David Byrne to join him for the show captured here. Each performs an acoustic set of his own songs and also perform together. The Seattle Times calls the concert "an absolute jewel." The Observer gives the album four stars, calling it "an entrancing showcase of their respective talents ... and even on disc a sense of joy and spontaneity is palpable." The Herald says it "leaves the listener grinning from ear to ear."
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Caetano Veloso + David Byrne
Live at Carnegie Hall
In 2004, Caetano Veloso curated a week of special concerts at New York’s Carnegie Hall and invited his longtime friend and collaborator David Byrne to join him for the show captured here. Each performs an acoustic set of his own songs and also perform together. The Seattle Times calls the concert "an absolute jewel." The Observer gives the album four stars, calling it "an entrancing showcase of their respective talents ... and even on disc a sense of joy and spontaneity is palpable." The Herald says it "leaves the listener grinning from ear to ear."
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David Byrne + Fatboy Slim
Here Lies Love
Here Lies Love, a double-disc song cycle, explores the life of Filipino first lady Imelda Marcos, pairing David Byrne with a who’s who of indie rockers, dancefloor divas, and established stars, including Tori Amos, Steve Earle, Cyndi Lauper, Natalie Merchant, Kate Pierson, Santigold, and St. Vincent. The effervescent disco melodies and tropical rhythms were created in collaboration with iconic deejay-composer Fatboy Slim. The Wall Street Journal calls it "a fountain of funk and dance music that's entirely accessible."
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David Byrne + Fatboy Slim
Here Lies Love (Deluxe Edition)
Here Lies Love explores the life of Filipino first lady Imelda Marcos, pairing David Byrne with a who’s who of vocalists, including Tori Amos, Steve Earle, Cyndi Lauper, Natalie Merchant, Kate Pierson, Santigold, and St. Vincent. Its effervescent disco melodies and tropical rhythms were created in collaboration with Fatboy Slim. This deluxe edition includes the song cycle on two discs, a DVD of videos, and a 120-page book about the project. The Wall Street Journal calls it "a fountain of funk and dance music that's entirely accessible."
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Brian Eno + David Byrne
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (LP)
David Byrne and Brian Eno stumbled onto the future with this groundbreaking work, using found sounds and trance-like rhythms, anticipating innovations of contemporary electronic dance music, world music, even hip-hop. The 25th-anniversary re-mastered version includes seven previously unreleased tracks. This 12" double-vinyl release on 180-gram vinyl includes additional drum, vocal, and ambient tracks for "Help Me Somebody" and "A Secret Life" not available on CD or MP3.
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David Byrne
The Knee Plays
Originally conceived as part of Robert Wilson's epic 1984 play the CIVIL warS, David Byrne’s The Knee Plays is “a strangely timeless set that echoes everything from early New Orleans jazz to brassy atmospheric passages or the quirky charm of a great Talking Heads song” (Guardian, UK). Now on CD for the first time, it includes eight previously unavailable bonus tracks plus a full-length DVD slideshow with music featuring 400 photographs of the original staging.
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Brian Eno + David Byrne
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Using found sounds and trance-like rhythms, Byrne and Eno stumbled onto the future. This groundbreaking work anticipated the creative/technological innovations of contemporary electronic dance music, world music, even hip-hop. Re-mastered, re-sequenced version includes seven previously unreleased tracks.
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David Byrne
Grown Backwards
On his Nonesuch debut, “David Byrne spins the world’s harsh realities into a whimsical landscape seeded with sarcastic truth, sentimental metaphor, and surreal fantasy” (Chicago Tribune). Grown Backwards features 11 new Byrne songs plus two older pop songs: arias by Verdi and Bizet, the latter a duet with Rufus Wainwright.







