The Catherine Wheel

David Byrne - The Catherine Wheel

The Catherine Wheel
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Artist: David Byrne
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Sire / London/Rhino
Soundtracks:
  1. Light Bath
  2. His Wife Refused
  3. Ade
  4. Walking
  5. Two Soldiers
  6. Under the Mountain
  7. Dinosaur
  8. Red House
  9. Wheezing
  10. Eggs in a Briar Patch
  11. Poison
  12. Cloud Chamber
  13. Black Flag
  14. My Big Hands (Fall Through the Cracks)
  15. Combat
  16. Leg Bells
  17. Blue Flame
  18. Big Business
  19. Dense Beasts
  20. Five Golden Sections
  21. What a Day That Was
  22. Big Blue Plymouth (Eyes Wide Open)
  23. Light Bath

Music reviews of The Catherine Wheel

Music Review: David Byrne's Funk Opera
Rating: 5 Stars

On this soundtrack to Twyla Tharp's broadway production all of the communal afro latin-funk style Talking Heads had been developing from the outset came to fruitation. Members of the "expanded heads" Adrien Belew and Bernie Worrell are onboard for these 23 cuts with Brian Eno also present. Together they wove a tapestry of music that is a spectacle to behold for lovers of collective 70's style funk. The music is abstract,emotional,spirtual and innovative. Most of these cuts are under 2 minutes long and generally flow together like one long piece with varriations even if each cut is seperated. And it's all here:the rhythms,the bass,the keyboard flourishes and Adrien's "zoo guitar":all the elements that made Talking Heads albums such as Remain in Light so important. A couple of songs do stand out seperately as amazing funk jams: "Dinasaur" and "Wheezing" stomp and thrust away like nobody's business. Especially for a musician who made his name on the rock scene this is solid proof that David Byrne's devotion to the rhythms and flavors of funk in it's many forms is genuine and strong and that he intended to innovate,and express that innovation to others around him. To my knowledge this was the first time funk music had made it's way onto broadway and the arrangements and production make it perfectly clear that,from the connective thread from latin to jazz (both used as elements in Broadway musicals and dance performances in the past) up to R&B/funk that this really had to happen where it did and when it did. The fact alone that Bernie Worrell is involved in this says a lot. P-Funk's music should've but never did make it to Broadway in it's heyday and if this is the medium that a musician of his caliber and connectedness to his craft than so be it. A truly amazing funk revelation.

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 Bartlett

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