David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Happen Today
VÖ: 14.11. 2008
Label/Vertrieb: Essential Music/Indigo
Presse/Online Promotion
”With their new album, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, the pair rejoin the rock conversation as if they'd never left.
Ultimately, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today is about how music heals even if it can't cure. On "The River," amid clapboard-church vocal harmonies, Byrne declares, "A change is gonna come/Like Sam Cooke sang in '63." Maybe it will. But what seems important here is the collective hope for it, channeled in song by a couple of old visionaries whose music should continue to inspire young bands and the rest of us.”
4/5 Rolling Stone
Mittlerweile ist es natürlich längst kein Geheimnis mehr, nach fast 30 Jahren haben David Byrne und Brian Eno (nach dem 1981 erschienenen „My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts“) ein neues Album aufgenommen. „Everything That Happens Will Happen Today“ ist über die eigene Homepage bereits seit dem 18. August erhältlich, nun folgt am 7.November über Essential Music/Indigo die Veröffentlichung über die herkömmlichen Vertriebswege.
Auf der Homepage gibt es bereits jeden Song als Stream zu hören, sowie einen Song als Gratis-Download
http://everythingthathappens.com
BRIAN AND DAVID: HOW & WHY
This record was born as a dinner conversation. While dining in New York with David and some other friends, I mentioned that I had accumulated a lot of music, which, despite my intentions, I had never formed into songs. David volunteered to give them a try. By and large, we stuck to our separate territories: I worked on the instrumentals, and he generally focused on the lyrics and vocals. This arrangement seemed to work well.
Upon starting this project, we quickly realized we were making something like electronic gospel, music in which singing becomes the central event, but whose sonic landscapes are atypical of such vocal-centered tracks.
I want music to be inviting, to offer the listener a place inside it. I think David responded to this with sensitivity and skill, and his natural edginess made those familiar progressions sound new to me once again.
Brian Eno
London
The foundations of some of the tracks are much like those of traditional folk, country, or gospel songs before these styles became harmonically sophisticated. Brian's chord structures were unlike anything I would have chosen myself, so I was pushed in a new direction, asked to face the unfamiliar, and this, of course, was a good thing. The challenge was more emotional than technical: to write simple, heartfelt tunes without drawing on cliché. The results, in many cases, are uplifting, hopeful, and positive, even though some lyrics describe cars exploding, war, and similarly dark scenarios.
These songs have elements of our previous work — no surprise there — but something new has emerged here as well. Where does the sanguine and heartening tone come from, particularly in these troubled times? As I hinted at above, some of my lyrics and melodies were a response to what I sensed lay buried in the music. My task was to bring forth into language what was originally non-verbal. In the end, we have made something together that neither of us could have made on our own.
DB
Hell's Kitchen, NY
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