Byrne David

David Byrne presenterar "Who Is the Sky?", hans första nya album sedan 2018 års hyllade och prisbelönta "American Utopia", som släpps av Matador Records/Playground. Albumet producerades av Grammy-vinnande Kid Harpoon (Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus), medan dess 12 låtar arrangerades av medlemmarna i den New York-baserade kammarensemblen Ghost Train Orchestra.

David Byrne presenterar "Who Is the Sky?", hans första nya album sedan 2018 års hyllade och prisbelönta "American Utopia", som släpps av Matador Records/Playground. Albumet producerades av Grammy-vinnande Kid Harpoon (Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus), medan dess 12 låtar arrangerades av medlemmarna i den New York-baserade kammarensemblen Ghost Train Orchestra.

This is David's first solo studio album since his Nonesuch debut in 2004, Grown Backwards<br/>The new album started with longtime collaborator Brian Eno, and later David was joined by producer Rodaidh McDonald (The xx, King Krule, Sampha, Savages) plus additional contributors like Daniel Lopatin (AKA Oneohtrix Point Never), Jam City, Thomas Bartlett, Jack Peñate, Sampha and many more. <br/><br/>David says: <br/>"These songs don't describe this imaginary and possibly impossible place, but rather they attempt to describe the world we live in now - and that world, when we look at it, as we live in it, as it impacts on us - immediately commands us to ask ourselves, Is there another way? A better way? A different way? This group of songs is indirectly about those questions. And what drives us to ask those questions. The songs are sincere - to answer the question above, the title is not ironic. The title is not so much about a utopia, as it is about our longing, frustration, aspirations, fears, hopes regarding what could be, what is possible. How and what could we be. Surely, we ask ourselves, it doesn't have to be like this. There is a longing for possibility - and I have a feeling that is what these songs touch on. I am as mystified as any of us - I have no prescriptions or sure fire answers - but I sense that I am not the only one asking, wondering and still willing to hold on to some tiny bit of hope, still willing to not succumb entirely to despair or cynicism. It's not easy, but music helps."

Byrne David: Live From Austin Tx (Rose Marble) [2 Vinyl LP]

Mr Byrne live 2001, solosaker, Talking Heads-låtar och en magisk cover. Dubbel 180 g. vinyl.

Byrne David: American Utopia On Broadway [2 Vinyl LP]

<b>A 'Sleeping Beauty' is a brilliant idea that is ahead of its time.</b><br/><br/> <b>So many breakthroughs in arts or science were like this, lost on their initial audience and only later revived and acknowledged to be great.</b><br/><br/> <b>This book asks, why do some ideas fall asleep? And how do they wake up?</b><br/><br/>We love to believe in a meritocracy of ideas - that greatness is always recognised, innovation always seized upon and rewarded. Yet so many of the people we now recognise as the world's great creators initially got little traction for their work. It was only later, often much later, that their work comes roaring back to life and made a lasting impact.<br/><br/> Discoveries as diverse as dark matter to continental drift, technologies from solar panels to the steam engine, artists from Brueghel to Vermeer to Melville all created 'sleeping beauties'. Ranging across many centuries and the full scope of human endeavour, Byrne explores their stories and gives us a lens for identifying future breakthroughs.<br/><br/> Humbling yet hopeful, these stories celebrate the courage to try new things and the wisdom to embrace them.