Brian Eno and David Byrne reunited for the first time since 1981 and made a new album, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (Wikipedia article). They put one free track on their web site (http://www.everythingthathappens.com/) today called "Strange Overtones." The full album will be self-released on August 18th with FREE streaming, or you can purchase DRM-FREE .mp3's.
They are not doing any advertising whatsoever, so I'm here doing the internet-word-of-mouth-advertising for 2 of my greatest artistic heroes of all time.
You can go to the website and download the free song if you enter your e-mail address. They won't try to sell you anything, but maybe give you a reminder when the album comes out and when Byrne starts his tour.
Or you can just watch this, because somebody already put the song up on YubeTube (with some random unrelated visuals):
Words can't explain how fucking pumped up I am. I haven't seen David Byrne since he toured after Look Into the Eyeball in 2001 with his 4-piece band and a small orchestra. Now he's going on a Byrne/Eno tour only doing stuff from the new album and the old stuff they did together from 1978 to 1981. Best tour idea ever. He'll be in San Francisco on October 6th, and a zergling rush couldn't stop me from going.
Anyway, if there any Byrne and/or Eno fans here, czech it out and tell me what you think.
Also, I just read this comment from David Byrne's journal (at David Byrne Radio) from July 2007:
There was another piece in the Times today about yet another 20 percent drop in CD sales. (Are they running the same news piece every 4 months?) Jeez guys, the writing's on the wall. How long do the record execs think they'll have those offices and nice parking spaces? (Well, more than half of all record A&R and other execs are gone already, so there should be plenty of parking space). They, the big 4 or 5, should give the catalogues back to the artists or their heirs as a gesture before they close the office doors, as they sure don't know how to sell music anymore. (I have Talking Heads stuff on the shelf that I can't get Warner to release.) The "industry" had a nice 50-year ride, but it's time to move on. Luckily, music remains more or less unaffected — there is a lot of great music out there. A new model will emerge that includes rather than sues its own customers, that realizes that music is not a product in the sense of being a thing — it's closer to fashion, in that for music fans it tells them and their friends who they are, what they feel passionately about and to some extent what makes life fun and interesting. It's about a sense of community — a song ties a whole invisible disparate community together. It's not about selling the (often) shattered plastic case CDs used to come in.
David Byrne posted that before Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails got out of their label contracts and started dumping free albums all over the internet. The man is psychic!
(And here is a good interview with Brian Eno about the album at Times Online.)
