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:: Thursday, April 06, 2006 ::

'Bush of Ghosts,' reissued and (soon to be) remixed
Coming soon: a reissue and remix of the Brian Eno/David Byrne classic from 1981, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. (Play track snippets.) Eno and Byrne also are offering a couple of tracks for free to those wanting to remix and share them online. They explain on their 'Bush of Ghosts' website:
This is the first time complete and total access to original tracks with remix and sampling possibilities have been officially offered on line. In keeping with the spirit of the original album, Brian and David are offering for download all the multitracks on two of the songs. Through signing up to the user license, and in line with Creative Commons licenses, you are free to edit, remix, sample and mutilate these tracks however you like. Add them to your own song or create a new one. Visitors are welcome to post their mixes or songs that incorporate these audio files on the site for others to hear and rate.
Only fitting that two of the greatest sound experimentalists should offer their goods for others to mash up.

The remix site is not yet live, so stay tuned. And if you've never heard this album, do yourself a favor and take a listen. Even 25 years later, it's an amazing sound.

Link via Blogcritics.org (here). On Blogcritics, Timothy Jarrett writes:
The irony in all this, of course, is that My Life in the Bush of Ghosts was all about reusing found sounds, including not a few samples from the Alan Lomax field recording "Sea Island Folk Festival" by the Moving Star Hall Singers, a group of Gullah musicians from Johns Island, South Carolina. Any remixes from these tracks will therefore be modern remixes of sounds that were sampled by mainstream musicians from a recording that was in turn appropriated by an ethnomusicologist from performances by Gullah musicians - who likely had historical antecedents for their songs in oral tradition. So offering the tracks up for remixes is actually a neat way of owning up to the debt that Eno and Byrne owed to the intellectual commons. The only question is, did anyone involved in the original recordings get residuals?

music, Brian Eno, David Byrne, Creative Commons

:: Andrew 07:16 + ::
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