• Together Again, Apart — Songwriters Telecommute
Posted by Tom Harnish on August 23rd, 2008
David Byrne was the song writer and Brian Eno produced most of the radical albums by Talking Heads, including the 1981 album, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Twenty-seven years later they’re colloborating again of a new album, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today.
It took them a year to do it, and for most of that time the partners were separated by an ocean. Eno provided the music from London and Byrne added melodies, words and vocals from New York City.
Jon Pareles writing for the New York Times quotes Eno: “We didn’t really talk to each other. We used e-mail, (and) the modern way of recording. I could spend as long as I wanted on the music. And he wasn’t under any pressure to do something with me sitting there drumming my fingers.”
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today was released August 18 at everythingthathappens.com.