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The Forest is a mostly instrumental album by David Byrne, released in 1991, inspired by the Epic of Gilgamesh and set during the later Industrial Revolution. Some of the music from this orchestral album was originally used in a Robert Wilson directed theatre piece with the same name.
David Byrne February, 1991. HOW AND WHY: The Forest is a poem on death. The music for The Forest is unlike anything I’ve ever done before. I wanted somehow to evoke the romantic feelings of the period in which the story has been re-set, the mid-eighteen hundreds. I wanted to be about to sympathize with those who feel the romance of the factory.
David Byrne ( / bɜːrn /; born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, actor, writer, music theorist, visual artist, and filmmaker. He was a founding member, principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads .
LYRICS. These pieces are largely orchestral. Part 1: Ur. Part 2: Kish. Part 3: Dura Europus. Part 4: Samara. Part 5: Ninevah. Part 6: Ava. Part 7: Machu Picchu. Part 8: Tula. Part 9: Teotihuacan. Part 10: Asuka. This was written as a phonetic lyric guide by an oldish Russian man in the Forest cast. Mai lajf is bjutifull. Mai Bet soft end Worm.
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The Forest by David Byrne released in 1991. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
Music from the 1991 album by David Byrne, composed originally Robert Wilson's theater piece of the same name, which premiered at the Theater…
