The Jezebel Spirit – Brian Eno – David Byrne (1981)

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Additional information about this, Brian Eno – David Byrne vinyl art.

Brian Eno & David Byrne – The Artist/s

Brian Peter George Jean-Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 1948), also mononymously known as Eno, is an English musician, songwriter, record producer and visual artist. He is best known for his pioneering contributions to ambient music and electronica, and for producing, recording, and writing works in rock and pop music. A self-described “non-musician”, Eno has helped introduce unconventional concepts and approaches to contemporary music. He has been described as one of popular music’s most influential and innovative figures.

David Byrne (born  1952) is a Scottish-American musician, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker. He was a founding member, principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads. Byrne has released solo recordings and worked with various media including film, photography, opera, fiction, and non-fiction.

The Jezebel Spirit – The Song

‘The Jezebel Spirit’ is the fifth song  from the 1981 album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by David Byrne and Brian Eno. It was released as a single the same year. The song includes a “found sound”—an exorcism performed by an anonymous exorcist—over Afrobeat music similar to that Byrne and Eno had used in the Talking Heads album Remain in Light. The exorcism was to have been a recording of Kathryn Kuhlman, but her estate prohibited the use of her voice. The phrase “Jezebel spirit” is referencing a woman in the Book of Kings in the Hebrew Bible. Based on stories in that chapter, Jezebel has become associated with prostitution.

The Latin Cross – The Shape

This record has been modelled into a cross as inspired by the artwork by Brian Eno and David Saville, from the records picture sleeve. The Christian cross, seen as a representation of the crucifixion of Jesus on a large wooden cross, is a symbol of Christianity. It is related to the crucifix (a cross that includes a corpus, usually a three-dimensional with representation of Jesus’ body) and to the more general family of cross symbols, the term cross itself being detached from the original specifically Christian meaning in modern English (as in many other western languages). The basic forms of the cross are the Latin cross with unequal arms and the Greek cross with equal arms, besides numerous variants, partly with confessional significance, such as the tau cross, the double-barred cross, triple-barred cross, cross-and-crosslets, and many heraldic variants, such as the cross potent, cross pattée, cross moline, cross fleury, etc.

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is the first collaborative studio album by Brian Eno and David Byrne, released in February 1981. It was Byrne’s first album without his band Talking Heads. The album integrates sampled vocals and found sounds, African and Middle Eastern rhythms, and electronic music techniques] It was recorded before Eno and Byrne’s work on Talking Heads’ 1980 album Remain in Light, but problems clearing samples delayed its release by several months.

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