1981,
United Kingdom
00:43:27;
60M;
192JS;
440;
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America Is Waiting
- 3:37
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Mea Culpa
- 3:44
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Regiment
- 3:58
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Help Me Somebody
- 4:19
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The Jezebel Spirit
- 4:53
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Qu'ran
- 3:47
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Moonlight In Glory
- 4:23
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The Carrier
- 3:36
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A Secret Life
- 2:31
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Come With Us
- 2:43
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Mountain Of Needles
- 2:36
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Very Very Hungry
- 3:20
Stacy Baird - engineer
Karina Beznicki - supervised by [production supervisor, for nonesuch records]
Hugh Brown - photography [studio]
David Byrne - written-by, guitar, bass, synthesizer, drums, percussion, noises [found objects], producer, arranged by (1, 3)
Greg Calbi - mastered by
Eli Cane - coordinator [production coordinator, for nonesuch records]
Bruce Conner - film director [directed by] (Video)
John Cooksey - drums (4)
Hugo Dwyer - engineer [assistant]
Robert Edridge-Waks - coordinator [editorial coordinator, for nonesuch records]
Brian Eno - artwork by [booklet cover image], written-by, guitar, bass, synthesizer, drums, percussion, noises [found objects], producer, arranged by (1, 3)
Michael Ewasko - engineer [assistant]
Chris Frantz - arranged by (3), drums (3)
Robert Fripp - arranged by (3)
Dave Jerden - engineer
Howard Johnston - engineer [assistant]
Busta Jones - written-by (3), arranged by (3), bass (3)
Dennis Keeley - bodhrán (2)
Eddie Korvin - engineer
Bill Laswell - arranged by (1), bass (1)
Mingo Lewis - bata, percussion [sticks] (5, 8)
Don Mack - engineer [assistant]
Reverend Paul Morton - voice (4)
John Potoker - engineer
April Potts - recorded by [rooks] (4)
Prairie Prince - bass drum, percussion [can] (5, 8)
Nigel Reeve - coordinator [project coordinators, for virgin records]
Jose Rossy - congas, agogô [agong-gong] (7)
Hik Sasaki - coordinator [project coordinators, for virgin records]
Peter Saville - design [original package design]
Steve Scales - congas, percussion [metals] (4)
George Sloane - engineer [assistant]
Peter Buchanan Smith - design
Neal Teeman - engineer
Samira Tewfik - voice (9)
Moving Star Hall Singers, The - voice (7)
David van Tieghem - arranged by (1), drums, percussion (1, 3)
Tim Wright - arranged by (1), bass [click] (1)
Dunya Yusin - voice (3, 8)
Special thanks to Dave Jerden.
Studios:
RPM, New York NY August 4 & 16, 1979.
Blue Rock, New York NY September 5, 1979.
Eldorado, Los Angeles, CA, February & March 1980.
Different Fur, San Francisco, CA, April 1980.
Sigma, New York, NY, October 1980.
Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York, NY, April 28, 2005.
Voices:
Track 1: Unidentified indignant radio host, San Francisco, April 1980.
Track 2: Inflamed caller and smooth politician replying, both unidentified. Radio call-in show, New York, July 1979.
Tracks 3 & 8: Dunya Yusin, Lebanese mountain singer (From 'The Human Voice in the World of Islam' Tangent Records TGS 131).
Track 4: Reverend Paul Morton, broadcast sermon, New Orleans, June 1980.
Track 5: Unidentified exorcist, New York, September 1980.
Track 7: The Moving Star Hall Singers, Sea Islands, Georgia (From 'The Moving Star Hall Singers' Folkways FS 3841).
Track 9: Samira Tewfik, Egyptian popular singer. (From 'Les Plus Grandes Artistes du Monde Arabe' EMI Records).
Track 10: Unidentified radio evangelist, San Francisco, April 1980.
Rooks on track 4 courtesy of April Potts.
All songs published by BMG Songs Ltd / Warner Chappell Music Ltd.
Virgin Records is a Virgin Music label. ℗ 2006 The copyright in this recording is owned by Virgin Records Ltd. © 2006 Virgin Records Ltd.
Catalogue number (on slipcase rear): 0946 3 31341 2 6 , BEDBX 1
Catalogue number (on spine/CD/booklet/sticker): 0946 331341 2 6
UK: BEDBX 1
Printed in the EU. Made in EU. Marketed and distributed by EMI.
This release comes in a jewel case in a cardboard slipcase (plus black sticker) with new artwork not on the original album. There is a twenty-eight page booklet which contains an excerpt from the book 'My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts' by Amos Tutola, 'My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts' (an essay by David Toop 22 Jan 2005) and 'The Making Of My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts' by David Byrne with Brian Eno April 2005.
Tracks on Side 3 are previously unreleased.
Enhanced Content is the video of 'Mea Culpa' in QuickTime format.
Virgin, 0946 331341 2 6
Virgin, BEDBX 1
Virgin, 0946 3 31341 2 6
