Brian Eno; David Byrne / Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Artist Brian Eno; David Byrne
Album Title: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
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Primary Genre Alternative & Punk: Avant Rock
Format CD
Released 08/18/2008
Label Todomundo Ltd./Opal Ltd.
Catalog No TODO 002
Bar Code No 6 34457 50492 9
Packaging Digipack
Tracks
1. Home (5:05)
2. My Big Nurse (3:19)
3. I Feel My Stuff (6:24)
4. Everything That Happens (3:43)
5. Life is Long (3:42)
6. The River (2:26)
7. Strange Overtones (4:16)
8. Wanted for Life (5:06)
9. One Fine Day (4:53)
10. Poor Boy (4:16)
11. The Lighthouse (3:46)
Date Acquired 12/04/2008
Personal Rating
Acquired from Electric Fetus - Minneapolis
Purchase Price 13.99

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Notes

All songs mixed at Kampo Studios, NYC.
Brian and David’s stuff was recorded at their home studios.
All drums recorded at Cafe Music Studios — except “My Big Nurse” and "Wanted For Life” recorded at Harder Sound.
Live brass and percussion recorded at Kampo Studios, NYC.
Mastered at Sterling Sound, NYC.

Digital Marketing And Commerce: Topspin Media.
Press: Chapple Davies (Europe); Sacks & Co (N. America)

Brian thanks: Jane Geerts, Anthea, Irial Eno and Darla Eno, Peter Chilvers.
David thanks: Ms Lia Sweet and Nan Lanigan at RZO, Danielle Spencer and Sarah Resnick at Todomundo, Cindy, Dave Eggers and Valentino Achak Deng.

Brian is published by Opal Music, London (PRS), except in N. America & Canada by Upala Music, Inc (BMI).
David is published by Moldy Fig Music, Inc (BMI).
Leo Abrahams published by Peacefrog (ASCAP).

© & ℗ Todomundo Ltd./Opal Ltd. 2008
Issued in a standard Digipak.

Track times do not appear on release.

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Analyzed: David Byrne & Brian Eno / Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR7       -0.26 dB    -8.59 dB      5:06 01-Home
DR7       -0.47 dB    -8.74 dB      3:19 02-My Big Nurse
DR7       -0.56 dB    -9.30 dB      6:24 03-I Feel My Stuff
DR7       -0.38 dB    -9.57 dB      3:43 04-Everything That Happens
DR6       -0.30 dB    -8.13 dB      3:42 05-Life Is Long
DR7       -0.56 dB    -9.19 dB      2:26 06-The River
DR7       -0.40 dB    -9.76 dB      4:16 07-Strange Overtones
DR8       -0.52 dB    -9.83 dB      5:06 08-Wanted for Life
DR6       -0.01 dB    -8.43 dB      4:54 09-One Fine Day
DR8       -0.41 dB   -10.22 dB      4:17 10-Poor Boy
DR8       -0.01 dB   -10.72 dB      3:46 11-The Lighthouse
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Number of tracks:  11
Official DR value: DR7

Samplerate:        44100 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   16
Bitrate:           764 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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Reviews
All Music Guide Review:

Review by Thom Jurek
The musical reunion between David Byrne and Brian Eno comes with a fair amount of baggage. After all, they produced some of the greatest records in rock history: the trio of Talking Heads records that Eno worked on, culminating in Remain in Light, and followed by the duo's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, where all manner of funky beats and freaky sampladelic rhythms were wedded to Pentecostal exorcisms and African ceremonial bush chants. Everything That Happens Will Happen Today is a nearly 180-degree turn from the duo's collective musical past. These 11 songs are loopy pop tunes that wed Byrne's strange hearing of gospel and folk to Eno's continually evolving rhythmic and electronic palette -- they refer to it as "folk-electronic-gospel." Granted, Eno's compositional frameworks are all written in major keys, and Byrne's poetically funny, sophisticated lyrics express possibility and hope in the middle of cultural darkness, but while it's clear that the emotional component is shared between the two principals, this is far from "message" music. The set opens with "Home." Strummed acoustic guitars and drum loops textured by sonic wonkery introduce an elegantly simple melody where Byrne, at his full-throated best, sings: "The dimming of the light/Makes the picture clearer...I memorized a face so it's not forgotten...Come back anytime/And we'll mix our lives together/Heaven knows what keeps mankind alive/Every hand -- goes searching for its partner in crime." Brokenness and paradox are also addressed: "Home where my world is breaking in two/Home with the neighbors fighting/Home -- were my parents telling the truth?" Likewise, the title track -- with its warm, liquid guitars (à la Daniel Lanois), out-of-the-ether sonic architecture, and Byrne's lyric coming from both dream and reflection -- is slower and less jaunty, but poetically moving: "Oh my brother, I still wonder, are you all right/And among the living, we are giving/All through the night...." The backing choral voices give the track its "church" feel, but the message is more human and existential than divinely inspired. Another winner is "Life Is Long," which evokes remembrance as the continuation of the chain of human events. Its horn section touches on soul and rhythm & blues, but is blanched and diluted wonderfully. The only track that consciously attempts the rhythmic complexity of anything on My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is "Poor Boy," which is cosmic science-fiction white-boy funk at its best. It's a warning against following the established order and rampant, empty materialism for their own sake -- its guitar riff comes straight outta the Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar." Everything That Happens Will Happen Today is, despite the long odds, a truly inviting, musically adventurous, and mature musical statement. It reveals in spades how willing artists are capable of redefining themselves when they refuse to take themselves too seriously. This is unfettered joyful listening, and in its own small way, even profound.
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