David Byrne, Fatboy Slim - Here Lies Love (Special Edition)(2CD/DVD)(w/Bound Book)
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Artist: David Byrne, Fatboy SlimEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Special Edition
CD Release Date: 2010-04-06
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Here Lies Love - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Florence Welch (Florence & The Machine)) - David Byrne
- Every Drop Of Rain - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Candie Payne & St. Vincent) - David Byrne
- You ll Be Taken Care Of - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Tori Amos) - David Byrne
- The Rose Of Tacloban - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Martha Wainwright) - David Byrne
- How Are You? - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Nellie McKay) - David Byrne
- A Perfect Hand - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Steve Earle) - David Byrne
- Eleven Days - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Cyndi Lauper) - David Byrne
- When She Passed By - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Allison Moorer) - David Byrne
- Walk Like A Woman - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Charmaine Clamor) - David Byrne
- Don t You Agree? - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Roisin Murphy) - David Byrne
- Pretty Face - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Camille) - David Byrne
- Ladies In Blue - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Theresa Andersson) - David Byrne
- Dancing Together - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Sharon Jones)
- Men Will Do Anything - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Alice Russell)
- The Whole Man - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Kate Pierson)
- Never So Big - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Sia)
- Please Don t - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Santi White (Santigold))
- American Troglodyte (feat. David Byrne)
- Solano Avenue - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Nicole Atkins)
- Order 1081 - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Natalie Merchant)
- Seven Years - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond))
- Why Don t You Love Me? - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Tori Amos & Cyndi Lauper)
- Eleven Days - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Cyndi Lauper)
- When She Passed By - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Allison Moorer)
- Don t You Agree? - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Roisin Murphy)
- Dancing Together - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Sharon Jones)
- Please Don t - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Santi White (Santigold))
- Order 1081 - By David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (feat. Natalie Merchant)
Music reviews of Here Lies Love (Special Edition)(2CD/DVD)(w/Bound Book)
Music Review: Interesting, profound, and disco-pop delicious...album of the year??
Rating: 5 Stars
I have to admit, keeping track of David Byrne's career is a BIT bewildering, but still a great big adventure...and I've always been more an admirer more than a fan...I've owned Talking Heads and his solo records off-and-on since the mid-80s...but in recent years, I've been in off-mode...I eventually wanted to hop back on the Byrne train to catch the adventure again, but didn't know a good entry point...until now and this BEHEMOTH of a project!! I mean, I dig his work and adventure, but I also like Norman Cook (as Fatboy Slim, Beats International, and his work in Britpop pioneers The Housemartins)...so I heard about this collabo and I was like, "hmmmm, interesting"...THEN I saw who was singing on the project...Santigold(!!), St Vincent(!!), Alice Russell(??), Sharon Jones(love the Dap Kings!!), Shara Worden(??), Candie Payne(??), Cyndi Lauper(!!!!), B52 Kate Pierson(!!!!), Nicole Atkins (wha?? LOVE Nicole and collect her!!), David(of course but only 1 1/2 songs, fine with all that talent), Steve Earle and his wife Alison Moorer(Woah, an alt-country element too!!), Camille(??), Nellie McKay(I collect her too!!), Florence Welch(LOVE Florence & The Machine!!!!!!), Natalie Merchant(!!), Theresa Andersson(??), Martha Wainwright(!!), Charmaine Clamor(??), Roisin Tori Amos(pretty cool), and Sia(!!)...
I saw that, and I was like, slapping my hands on my thighs, THAT's IT, I must buy this!!! I only knew about the regular 2CD edition, and read the Newsday review where it got an A-, UNTIL I read the Post review where it mentioned this deluxe edition with the DVD and 120 page book...like WHA???? I figured, lemme see the price...about 30 bucks, and I was like, it's mine...not many stores stocked it, no BestBuys, nothing...but I figured lemme see about my friend's indie store and their price if they had it...lo and behold, they had 1 copy left and the price was the same...about 30 bucks, so I bought it!!!!
The first thing I did was read the book as I wanted to read the story, see how it plays out, info, David's take on the whole thing, the inspiration, before I delved into the songs...lemme tell you...if it was just the book, I would have been satisfied because it's gripping reading, and the story is so profound, interesting and even moving...what was cool was how David took two interweaving and parallel and related stories and put them together...love how they dovetailed and had a commonality. It would make a great film...and in this case, disco musical!! And it had nothing to do with her shoe collection either, which was only found after the Marcoses fled the Philippines in 1986. I never knew anything about them until I read the book here. I also loved how David mentioned how the US under Bush Jr almost became Draconian like Marcoses' regime with opposition to his Iraq War...nice.
THEN I checked out the DVD...nice footage, but my only disappointment was that the DVD didn't have "videos" to all 22 songs...just 6 of them...maybe there wasn't enough footage or related footage??
Lastly, I checked out the 2CDs...masterpiece...the songs stand alone as brilliant artful disco-pop-modern rock hybrid songs with profound lyrics and catchy-as-frick hooks and great vocals by many of my fave female singers (and Steve and David)...and at the same time, they weave a thread that links the songs together, informing them in many ways, from many different angles. In a way, as one person says, each singer reveals different sides to the "characters" (I wouldn't say characters actually, as they are historical figures, real people) in each song...in this way, this album and soon-to-be-theatrical-production, has lots in common with the film and soundtrack to "I'm Not There", that film about the different sides of Bob Dylan, with many actors, male and female, portraying Dylan's many personalities, and the bands on the soundtrack...same thing. It's an interesting approach that works for me, as the lyrics are made of many of Imelda's actual quotes, the songs are well-constructed, with a cool disco/pop/modern rock feel, like mid-period Talking Heads, ZE-records catalogue, Kid Creole, Grace Jones, New Order, Kraftwerk, all that adventurous music where alt-rock & punk met the dancefloor in the clubs of the 70s and 80s but with a 21st century twist. There are also cool tunes with an alt-country feel and orchestral elements like brass, woodwinds...and this could be the best thing Norman Cook has ever been involved in as well.
Soooooo many highlights it's not even funny...I can even compare this record to Damon Albarn's Gorillaz project's new album "Plastic Beach", in that it weaves a story...in their case, fictional, but with an environmental theme...across a narrative arc, with many guest singers across the spectrum like Bobby Womack, Lou Reed, Mos Def, and the Fall's Mark E Smith...anyhoo, HLL's highlights include the title track sung by Florence, Cyndi Lauper's "Eleven Days", Allison Moorer's lovely "As You Passed By", Kate Pierson's fun/funky/interesting "The Whole Man", Tori Amos & Cyndi Lauper's set-ending duet "Why Don't You Love Me??", Natalie Merchant's historical-yet-wrenching "Order 1081"...all of it.
Concluding, I am not pro-Imelda or anti-Imelda, but I feel for the woman and all she went through, and I feel bad for Estrella as how she was treated...interesting parallel...in a way, this is a tragedy, but surely an uplifting one...
Could be album of the year so far...seriously...the 5 years it took to make this thing surely paid off...in spades. Kudos to David Byrne, I'm back on his adventure train for good it seems.
Description of Here Lies Love (Special Edition)(2CD/DVD)(w/Bound Book)
-22 song double CD-DVD with 6 videos featuring songs from the album cut to archival and historical footage from the Philippines
-100 page hardcover book with lyrics, photos & essays
'Here Lies Love' is a double-disc song cycle - improbably poignant, decidedly surreal, surprisingly thought provoking - about the rise and fall of the Philippines' notorious Imelda Marcos. It was conceived by David Byrne; composed by Byrne and British deejay/recording artist Fatboy Slim, a/k/a Norman Cook; and performed by a dream cast drawn from the worlds of indie rock, alt country, R&B and pop.
Byrne's taste in collaborators is as imaginative as it is impeccable, including Cyndi Lauper (who recounts, to lighthearted disco beats, Imelda's courtship with Ferdinand Marcos), Steve Earle (as the power-hungry Ferdinand), Dap-Kings vocalist Sharon Jones (recalling Imelda's introduction into New York society) and Natalie Merchant (as spurned Imelda confidante Estrella, anticipating the onset of martial law). Along with vocals turns from such stars as Tori Amos and the B-52's Kate Pierson, Byrne works with rising indie rockers St. Vincent and My Brightest Diamond; New York chanteuses Nellie McKay and Martha Wainwright; and dance-music divas Roisin Murphy and Santigold. Byrne himself appears as the voice of imperialistic America on 'American Troglodyte' a send-up that wouldn't have seemed out of places in Talking Heads' True Stories.
Byrne originally envisioned this as a musical theatre piece, to be mounted in disco and nightclub settings, reflecting the globe-trotting Marcos' taste for such velvet-roped spots as Studio 54 and Regine's. In 2006, he performed work-in-progress versions to enthusiastic audiences at New York City's Carnegie Hall and the Adelaide Festival in Australia. When more funding for a theatrical version proved elusive, While plans for a U.S. theatrical production continue to evolve, he has delivered this unique recording. 'Here Lies Love' has an effervescent disco feel, redolent of Fatboy Slim's own dance-floor anthems, with warm undercurrents of the Latin rhythms that have percolated through Byrne's recent solo work. The sunny arrangements act in counterpoint to the reality of the Marcos' increasingly repressive regime, reflecting the imagined inner life of the glamour-obsessed Imelda. Explains Byrne, 'For me, the darker side of the excesses are, for the most part, a matter of record. A lot of the audience is going to come with that knowledge already. What's more of a challenge is to get inside the head of the person who was behind all of that, and understand what made them tick.' Byrne offers no judgment and avoids the obvious - there is no mention of Imelda's infamous shoe collection.
Many of Byrne's lyrics are, astonishingly enough, constructed from actual Imelda quotes, including the project's title, the words that Imelda, now returned to the Philippines from U.S.-assisted exile in Hawaii, would like to have inscribed on her gravestone. Byrne generously annotates each song in the CD booklet and illustrates the story with archival photos. In a detailed preface, he reveals what drew him to this subject and the bumpy route he took to launch the project and, ultimately, record this CD. The lavish booklet is indeed a page-turner, just as 'Here Lies Love' is a wonderfully old-school album that rewards start-to-finish listening. Once again, Byrne - beloved as musician, thinker and bicyclist-about-town - reveals the breadth and singularity of his vision.
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