Talking Heads frontman David Byrne and experimental producer/ambient music pioneer Brian Eno have announced that they will collaborate for the first time since the groundbreaking 1981 release of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. The duo will release their new album, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, in August strictly through their newly launched website, everythingthathappens.com. The news arrived via a video posted today on the site. “Brian Eno and I recently finished our first collaboration in about 30 years,” says Bryne in the video. “For the most part, Brian did the music and I wrote some tunes, words and sang. It’s familiar but completely new as well. We’re pretty excited.”
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Talking Heads frontman David Byrne and experimental producer/ambient music pioneer Brian Eno have announced that they will collaborate for the first time since the groundbreaking 1981 release of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. The duo will release their new album, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, in August strictly through their newly launched website, everythingthathappens.com. The news arrived via a video posted today on the site. “Brian Eno and I recently finished our first collaboration in about 30 years,” says Bryne in the video. “For the most part, Brian did the music and I wrote some tunes, words and sang. It’s familiar but completely new as well. We’re pretty excited.”
According to the site, on August 4th Byrne and Eno will offer the song “Strange Overtones” as a free download, and the entire album will be made available for free streaming, as well as for purchase as a download and in physical format August 18th. In addition, Byrne will embark this September on a “Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno” tour, which will feature new tunes as well as music from their previous work together, including three Talking Heads albums, and Bush of Ghosts. Tour dates will be announced soon.
