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American Utopia (film)
''American Utopia'' is a 2020 American concert film directed and produced by Spike Lee, from a screenplay by David Byrne. The film is a live recording of a Broadway theatre, Broadway performance of the show adapted from the touring show that supported the American Utopia, album of the same name. The film features selections from that album, as well as songs from throughout Byrne's career. Byrne performed alongside eleven musicians, all of whom used wireless or portable equipment. Frequent collaborator Annie-B Parson served as choreographer. It had its world premiere at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2020. The film received critical acclaim. Cast All provide percussion; all except Byrne provide backing vocals. *David Byrne – lead vocals, electric and acoustic guitars * Chris Giarmo – dancing, melodica * Tendayi Kuumba – dancing * Karl Mansfield – keyboards, musical director * Angie Swan – electric guitar * Bobby Wooten III – bass * Mauro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spike Lee
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author. His work has continually explored race relations, issues within the black community, the role of media in contemporary life, urban crime and poverty, and other political issues. Lee has won numerous accolades for his work, including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and two Peabody Awards. He has also been honored with an Honorary BAFTA Award in 2002, an Honorary César in 2003, and the Academy Honorary Award in 2015. His production company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, has produced more than 35 films since 1983. He made his directorial debut with '' She's Gotta Have It'' (1986). He has since written and directed such films as '' School Daze'' (1988), '' Do the Right Thing'' (1989), '' Mo' Better Blues'' (1990), ''Jungle Fever'' (1991), '' Malcolm X'' (1992), '' Crooklyn'' (1994), '' Clockers'' (1995), '' 25th Hour'' (2002 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rei Momo
''Rei Momo'' is the debut solo album by David Byrne and second overall studio album (after the 1981 collaborative album '' My Life in the Bush of Ghosts''), released on 3 October 1989. The album reached number 54 on the UK Charts and number 71 on the ''Billboard'' chart. The album consists of diverse Latin music styles from Cuba ( rumba, mozambique, mambo, chachachá, bolero), the Dominican Republic ( merengue), Puerto Rico ( bomba), Colombia (cumbia, mapeyé) and Brazil (samba, pagode). The album is mostly sung in English and features guest appearances by Kirsty MacColl, Willie Colón and Celia Cruz, among others. Release and promotion The album was co-released by Luaka Bop and Sire on 3 October 1989. Three songs, "Loco de Amor", "Good and Evil", and "Office Cowboy" are excluded from the LP. All songs are present on the cassette and compact disc editions. David Byrne performed "Dirty Old Town" and "Loco de Amor" on ''Saturday Night Lives Thanksgiving show in 1989. Recept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Think We're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat
''I Think We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat'' is the debut album of the British electronic act the Brighton Port Authority. It was released on Southern Fried on 6 January 2009 exclusively on amazon.com, with a regular release on 3 February. The Brighton Port Authority is a project of British musician Norman Cook, better known as Fatboy Slim, and his longtime engineer, Simon Thornton. The album features collaborations with DJ Danger Mouse, Tom Gandey (aka Cagedbaby), Justin Robertson, Ashley Beedle, Lateef, Martha Wainwright, Jamie T, David Byrne, Dizzee Rascal, Iggy Pop, Olly Hite, Connan Mockasin, Pete York, Jack Peñate and Emmy the Great. The album's title is a popular misquotation of "You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat" from the 1975 Steven Spielberg movie '' Jaws''. The track "Should I Stay or Should I Blow" from the album, featuring Ashley Beedle, is featured in the soundtrack of ''FIFA 10'', a video game by EA Sports. Track listing Collaborators for each track are li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toe Jam (song)
"Toe Jam" is the debut single by British electronic act the Brighton Port Authority, released on 5 August 2008 from their debut album ''I Think We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat''. The song was composed by and features musician David Byrne and rapper Dizzee Rascal. The song was listed at number 14 on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of the 100 best songs of 2008. The music video for the song, directed by Keith Schofield, predominantly features naked dancers. The censor bars placed over their genital areas and breasts form figures on the screen. The music video received much attention on the Internet and was shown on opening night of the 6th Berlin International Directors Lounge. The song was also performed live on Saturday Night Live ''Saturday Night Live'' (''SNL'') is an American Late night television in the United States, late-night live television, live sketch comedy variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Michaels and Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grown Backwards
''Grown Backwards'' is the seventh studio album by the American musician David Byrne, released on March 16, 2004. Reception In 2010, Byrne wrote in his book '' How Music Works'' it has sold 127,000 physical albums, 8,000 digital albums and 53,000 digital singles (overall 140,000 units sold of albums). The album peaked at #178 and #88 in the US and UK respectively. The album was released on vinyl for the first time on March 15, 2019. Track listing All tracks written by David Byrne, except where noted. #"Glass, Concrete & Stone" – 4:13 #"The Man Who Loved Beer" ( Donald Charles Book and Kurt Wagner of Lambchop) – 2:41 #"" (From ') – 4:49 #"Empire" – 4:12 #"Tiny Apocalypse" – 4:03 #"She Only Sleeps" – 2:57 #"Dialog Box" – 3:30 #"The Other Side of this Life" – 4:00 #"Why" – 2:54 #"Pirates" – 3:52 #"Civilization" – 3:17 #"Astronaut" – 2:55 #"Glad" – 1:58 #"" (Giuseppe Verdi, from ') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remain In Light
''Remain in Light'' is the fourth studio album An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, dig ... by the American rock band Talking Heads, released on October 8, 1980, by Sire Records. The band's third and final album to be produced by Brian Eno, ''Remain in Light'' was recorded at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas and Sigma Sound Studios in New York in July and August 1980. After the release of ''Fear of Music'' in 1979, Talking Heads and Eno sought to dispel notions of the band as a mere vehicle for frontman and songwriter David Byrne. Drawing influence from Nigerian Afrobeat musician Fela Kuti, they blended African polyrhythms and funk with electronics, recording instrumental tracks as a series of Loop (music), looping grooves. Session musicians included the guitarist Adrian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love This Giant
''Love This Giant'' is a studio album made in collaboration between musicians David Byrne and St. Vincent, released on 4AD and Todo Mundo on September 10, 2012, in the United Kingdom and the following day in the United States. Marking Byrne's ninth studio album overall and Annie Clark's fourth, Byrne and Clark began working together in late 2009, using a writing and promotion process that Byrne had previously used on his 2008 collaboration with Brian Eno ''Everything That Happens Will Happen Today''. The duo had previously played together live at an Actor Tour concert, and on the album '' Here Lies Love''. The performers enlisted a variety of brass musicians to augment their songwriting and toured over the following year to promote the album. David Byrne incorporated a reworked performance of "I Should Watch TV" in his American Utopia Tour, and later in its Broadway production, documented in the film of the same name. Composition, recording, and production The two artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fear Of Music
''Fear of Music'' is the third studio album by the American new wave band Talking Heads, released on August 3, 1979, by Sire Records. It was recorded at locations in New York City during April and May 1979 and was produced by Brian Eno and Talking Heads. The album reached number 21 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and number 33 on the UK Albums Chart. It spawned the singles " Life During Wartime", " I Zimbra", and "Cities". ''Fear of Music'' received favorable reviews from critics. Praise centered on its unconventional rhythms and frontman David Byrne's lyrical performances. The album is often considered one of Talking Heads' best releases and has been featured in several publications' lists of the best albums of all time. Background Talking Heads' second album '' More Songs About Buildings and Food'', released in 1978, expanded the band's sonic palette. The record included a hit single, a cover of Al Green's " Take Me to the River", which gained the quartet commercial exposure. In M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Zimbra
"I Zimbra" is a song by American new wave band Talking Heads, released as the second single from their 1979 album ''Fear of Music''. According to Sytze Steenstra in ''Song and Circumstance: The Work of David Byrne from Talking Heads to the Present'', the music draws heavily on the African popular music Byrne was listening to at the time. Dada lyrics The lyrics of "I Zimbra" are an adaptation of Dadaist Hugo Ball's poem ''Gadji beri bimba''. *The lyrics contain these lines: :''Gadji beri bimba clandridi'' :''Lauli lonni cadori gadjam'' :''A bim beri glassala glandride'' :''E glassala tuffm I zimbra'' Influence In an interview, Jerry Harrison named "I Zimbra" as his favorite Talking Heads song, and pointed out that the style of the group's next album, ''Remain in Light'', was indebted to the song's production style. "We also knew that our next album would be a further exploration of what we had begun with 'I Zimbra'." : – Jerry Harrison, Liquid Audio, 1997 The song is used in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
"This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" is a song by American rock band Talking Heads. The closing track of their fifth studio album ''Speaking in Tongues'', it was released in November 1983 as the second and final studio single from the album; a live version would be released as a single in 1986. The lyrics were written by frontman David Byrne, and the music was written by Byrne and the other members of the band, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison. Byrne intended the song to be a love song without the clichés of the genre. The parenthesized title refers to the simple ("naïve") construction of the song, which is framed on a sparse ostinato that lasts for the song's duration. This simplicity marked a departure for Talking Heads, whose work was known for its complex African-inspired polyrhythms and funk. Background ''Speaking in Tongues'', Talking Heads' fifth studio album, was released on June 1, 1983, by Sire Records. It was produced by the band themselves after th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
