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}} | Genre = | Length = | Language = English, Arabic | Label = Sire/Warner Bros. | Producer = Brian Eno, David Byrne | Chronology= Brian Eno and David Byrne | This album= ''My Life in the Bush of Ghosts''(1981) | Next album= ''Everything That Happens Will Happen Today''(2008) | Misc = }} ''My Life in the Bush of Ghosts'' is a 1981 album by Brian Eno and David Byrne, titled after Amos Tutuola's 1954 novel of the same name. While it received mixed reviews upon its release, ''My Life'' is now widely regarded as a high point in the discographies of Eno and Byrne.〔(Brian Eno + David Byrne: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts : Reviews )〕 Critic John Bush describes it as a "pioneering work for countless styles connected to electronics, ambience, and Third World music", and in a 1985 interview, singer Kate Bush remarked that the album "left a very big mark on popular music".〔(Gaffaweb - Kate Bush - REACHING OUT - MTV - Unedited )〕 The extensive use of sampling on the album is widely considered ground-breaking—it was one of the first to do so—but its actual influence on the sample-based music genres that later emerged continues to be debated.〔(Fact Magazine: "The Essential... Brian Eno - ''My Life in the Bush of Ghosts''" )〕〔(Popmatters Review: ''My Life in the Bush of Ghosts'' (2006 Reissue) )〕 Pitchfork Media listed ''My Life in the Bush of Ghosts'' as the 21st best album of the 1980s. Slant Magazine listed the album at No. 83 on its list of the "Best Albums of 1980s".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Best Albums of the 1980s )〕 ==Recording and production== Eno and Byrne first worked together while collaborating on ''More Songs About Buildings and Food'', the 1978 album by Byrne's band Talking Heads. ''My Life'' was primarily recorded during a break between touring for ''Fear of Music'' (1979) and the recording of ''Remain in Light'' (1980), subsequent Talking Heads albums also produced by Eno, but the release was delayed while legal rights were sought for the large number of samples used throughout the album.〔(Bush of Ghosts- Making Of ) Essay by David Byrne, 2005.〕 Anthropologist Bob White calls the album experimental rock, while John Bush of AllMusic called it "45 minutes of worldbeat/funk-rock".〔 Eno described the album as a "vision of a psychedelic Africa."〔(Sounds )〕 The "found objects" credited to Eno and Byrne were common objects used mostly as percussion. In the notes for the 2006 expanded edition of the album, Byrne writes that they would often use a normal drum kit, but with a cardboard box replacing the bass drum, or a frying pan replacing the snare drum; this would blend the familiar drum sound with unusual percussive noises. Rather than conventional pop or rock singing, most of the vocals are sampled from other sources, such as commercial recordings of Arabic singers, radio disc jockeys, and an exorcist. Musicians had previously used similar sampling techniques, but critic Dave Simpson declares it had never before been used "to such cataclysmic effect" as on ''My Life''.〔(Brian Eno and David Byrne, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts | | guardian.co.uk Arts )〕 In 2001, ''Q'' magazine asked Eno whether he and Byrne had invented sampling. He replied: The album was recorded entirely with analogue technology, before the advent of digital sequencing and MIDI. The sampled voices were synchronized with the instrumental tracks via trial and error, a practice that was often frustrating, but which also produced several happy accidents. Also according to Byrne's 2006 notes, neither he nor Eno had read Tutuola's novel before the album was recorded. Both were familiar with Tutuola's earlier ''The Palm-Wine Drinkard'' (1952), but his ''My Life in the Bush of Ghosts'' was not easily obtained in the U.S. when the material was recorded. Even without reading the book, Eno and Byrne thought the title reflected their interest in African music, and also had an evocative, vaguely sinister quality that also referenced the voices sampled for the album: the vocalists were recorded sometimes several decades before being re-appropriated by Eno and Byrne, and the voices often seemed to take on unanticipated qualities when placed in the new context. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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