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(2019) David Byrne - Grown Backwards [Deluxe Edition]
Review:
…the album’s reissue tacks on six additional songs, including a duet with Brazilian musician Caetano Veloso. As Byrne noted in a statement, “Some of these bonus tracks were deemed not right for this record as they didn’t fit in with the flow and feel of the original album. Now I’m not so sure record sequence matters so much and some hold up OK, so here they are. ”Alongside “Strange Enough”, “50212”, and “The Bumps”, the additional tracks include “Ausencia”, a worldly reinterpretation of Bosnia composer Goran Bregović’s arrangement of a Cape Verdean tune, which sports both Portuguese and Creole lyrics. As for “Show and Tell”, the Talking Heads frontman elaborated on the number’s mention of Cherry Hill, proclaiming the area across the river from Philadelphia to be “a very funky part of town.”
…Grown Backwards was originally released on March 16th, 2004, marking the iconic singer’s debut effort on Nonesuch Records. In a statement, the label recounted Byrne’s recording process for the LP, saying he “worked from the ‘top down,’ humming melodies into a micro-cassette recorder and later unscrambling them to create songs — a significant change from his usual practice of starting with improvised textures and grooves and later adding tunes.”
The original solo effort contained eleven original numbers as well as two opera arias, a cover of Lambchop’s “The Man Who Loved Beer”, and a bonus track featuring a re-arrangement of Byrne and X-Press’ hit “Lazy”. The record marked the famed musician’s last solo studio album for over a decade until he dropped American Utopia last year.
Tracklist:
01 - Glass, Concrete & Stone
02 - The Man Who Loved Beer
03 - Au fond du temple saint
04 - Empire
05 - Tiny Apocalypse
06 - She Only Sleeps
07 - Dialog Box
08 - The Other Side of This Life
09 - Why
10 - Pirates
11 - Civilization
12 - Astronaut
13 - Glad
14 - Un di felice, eterea
15 - Lazy
16 - Strange Enough
17 - 50212
18 - Ausencia
19 - Dreamworld
20 - Show and Tell
21 - The Bumps
Summary:
Country: USA
Genre: art pop, world
Media Report:
Source : CD
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : ~ 692-958 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
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