David Byrne - The Catherine Wheel
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Artist: David ByrneEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Sire / London/Rhino
Soundtracks:
- Light Bath
- His Wife Refused
- Ade
- Walking
- Two Soldiers
- Under the Mountain
- Dinosaur
- Red House
- Wheezing
- Eggs in a Briar Patch
- Poison
- Cloud Chamber
- Black Flag
- My Big Hands (Fall Through the Cracks)
- Combat
- Leg Bells
- Blue Flame
- Big Business
- Dense Beasts
- Five Golden Sections
- What a Day That Was
- Big Blue Plymouth (Eyes Wide Open)
- Light Bath
Music reviews of The Catherine Wheel
Music Review: The best of Byrne - Talking Heads - Not Talking Heads but the best one anyway
Rating: 5 Stars
Talking Heads - Art students who decided to make music. The first records were good but not great as you would expect from non musicians. Fairly simple pop music with an artistic edge. But after a few interesting records, around the time of "Remain in Light" with the addition of Eno (Roxy Music, Bowie) on treatments and synths, Bernie Worrell (Parliament/Funkadelic) adding funky keyboard sounds and Adrian Belew (Zappa, King Crimson, Bowie) on guitar noises they were hitting their stride with a peak of near brilliance topped by this one, sort of, unfortunately never to return.
Although this is not technically a Talking Heads recording it sounds like one. OF COURSE... the best Talking Heads recording... isn't a Talking Heads recording. It's both fitting and ironic that the best one is probably the least well known. THIS IS THE BEST ON IMHO.
Very interesting intellectually AND enjoyable on visceral level. It incorporates the latest avant guard aesthetic (at the time) with swinging funk and hard edged rock. Lots of open space, not too cluttered to give the great sounds room to shine. I'm usually not into the fad of found recordings but these incorporated some of the earliest and best.
I agree with the review by G. Mitchell "greggmitch" pretty much except I still have my original cassette which seems to have the same 23 tracks as the CD. I just ordered the CD so I haven't done a detailed comparison but I've compared the track listings and they match.
Description of The Catherine Wheel
Sounding more like a missing Talking Heads session than anything remotely like David Byrne's 1990s-era work, The Catherine Wheel is at root a display of funky, off-time rhythms and vamps with Byrne involved at every level. The music was composed and produced to accompany a Twyla Tharp-choreographed dance event, and for program music it's brilliant enough to stand alone. The 73 minutes are almost seamless, weaving ambient soundscapes with loopy percussion-backed bass runs with guitar strumming across the top. Byrne shows his command of dramatic scoring here, spreading his wings across a huge range of styles and doing so in a way that sounds both like his old band and entirely different from them. You can hear in The Catherine Wheel where Byrne was heading (i.e., heavily rhythmic music) years before the Heads were disbanded and he ventured into life as a Brazilian- and Latin-music impresario. It's the sound of a young genius having free reign, and as such it's exceptional. --Andrew BartlettGeneral CDs
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