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News
- Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Orange County Register: David Byrne Sounding As Good As Ever on "Remarkable" Tour of Eno Pairings
David Byrne, who just announced European dates for his current tour, Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno, has been performing in California all week. San Diego City Beat calls the show "classic Byrne ... a great reminder of Byrne’s genius and his continuing relevance as a performance artist." The Orange County Register calls the Los Angeles show "remarkable" with "Byrne as good as he's ever been since his heyday." The Oakland Tribune calls the Byrne/Eno pairing "one of the greatest partnerships to ever occur in the recording studio," writing that "time has served to validate the significance of" their recently reissued collaboration My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, which has "played a huge role in shaping modern electronic music."
- Monday, August 11, 2008
Wilco Travels to Tanglewood, Launches Ride-Share Program
After performing at the Virgin Mobile Fest in Baltimore this weekend, Wilco gears up for its performance at Tanglewood in Western Massachusetts tomorrow night. The Daily Gazette out of Schnectady, New York, more than an hour away, says "Wilco is worth the trip." Next to a sold-out show at Brooklyn's McCarren Park Pool. With all the travel, Wilco is also making an effort to reduce its environmental impact with a new ride-sharing initiative. Also, label mate David Byrne has his own ideas for reducing congestion, promoting bike use.
About David Byrne
Known as the force behind The Talking Heads and later as creator of the highly-regarded record-label Luaka Bop, Byrne also works as a photographer, film director, author, and solo artist; he has been publishing and exhibiting visual art for more than a decade. Recent works include the release of “Arboretum, a book of Byrne’s “tree” drawings (Mcsweeney’s, 2006)”, the Lead Us Not into Temptation CD from the film Young Adam, and the Talking Heads box set.
Grown Backwards was Byrne’s first Nonesuch Records release. “There are a few artists today who are so original in what they do that one can truly say they sound like no one else in the world,” says label president Robert Hurwitz. “This is what we have always felt about David Byrne, and this is how we feel about Grown Backwards, his first record on Nonesuch. It is a great privilege to work with him.”
Nonesuch has also released My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Byrne's 1981 collaboration with Brian Eno, and, more recently, The Knee Plays, originally conceived as part of Robert Wilson's epic 1984 play the CIVIL warS.
Latest Release
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The Knee Plays
November 7, 2007Originally 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.
Releases
On Tour
- January 19, 2009 – 08:00 pmHong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong,
- January 21, 2009 – 08:00 pmSuntec City Concert Hall, Suntec,
- January 23, 2009 – 07:00 pmOsaka Hatch, Osaka,
- January 25, 2009 – 07:00 pmYokohama Bay Hall, Yokohama,
- January 27, 2009 – 07:00 pmShibuya AX, Tokyo,
- January 28, 2009 – 07:00 pmShibuya AX, Tokyo,