David Byrne - Songs From The Broadway Production Of "The Catherine Wheel" flac album

The Catherine Wheel is David Byrne's musical score commissioned by Twyla Tharp for her dance project. The Catherine Wheel premiered September 22, 1981, at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City. The tracks "Big Blue Plymouth", "My Big Hands", "Big Business", and "What a Day That Was", were performed live by Talking Heads in 1982 and 1983; the latter two appear in their Stop Making Sense film, and "What a Day That Was" appears on the album. All songs written by David Byrne, except as indicated.

Commissioned by the Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation, Inc. "The Catherine Wheel" premiered September 22nd, 1981 at the Winter Garden Theatre, New York City Choreographed and directed by Twyla Tharp. Studios: Celestial Sound Studios, Olympic Sound (London) and Blank Tapes Mastered at Sterling Sound. Vinyl mastered by Strawberry Mastering, London ("STRAWBERRY (G)"stamped into the runout grooves) Catalog "SIR K 56 979" on sleeve, "SIR 56 979" on labels Printed antistatic inner sleeve. "The Catherine Wheel" premiered September 22nd, 1981 at the Winter Garden Theatre, New York City". Studios: Celestial Sound Studios; Olympic Sound (London); Blank Tapes. Mastered at Sterling Sound. The soundtrack to a masterful collaboration between Twyla Tharp and David Byrne. A piece of episodic dance presenting the disintegration of a nuclear family, with role-plays from The Leader & 7-piece Chorus, with The Mother, The Father, The Brother, The Sister, The Maid, The Pet & The Poet acting out the seventeen scenarios in mime and dance. This enacted within a stark, shadow-lit set of wires, pulleys and wheels against a draped backdrop - with a huge symbolic pineapple, used as a device representative of 'The Bomb'.

David Byrne: Songs From the Broadway Production of "The Catherine Wheel" Byrne's take on the rhythms of Africa is even more perilous for imitators than Coltrane's on the mysteries of the Orient, but this surprisingly apt translation-to-disc of his Twyla Tharp score proves his patent is worth the plastic it's imprinted on. The magic's all in Byrne's synthesis of the way drums talk and the way Americans talk-middle Americans, not Afro-Americans.

Horton's drumming establishes a muscular funk foundation for much of the material, which also showcases Byrne's underrated guitar playing. Only the lyrics disappoint; they consist almost entirely of clichéd and predictable depictions of domestic suburban angst. Highlights of the program include "The Red House," with its eerie use of deconstructed vocal samples, and the lovely faux-juju "Ade.

The Catherine Wheel is David Byrne's musical score commissioned by Twyla Tharp for her dance project. Since the breakup of Talking Heads, David Byrne's solo work has been notoriously inconsistent. But before that band's dissolution, he made a couple of very fine albums on his own: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (with Brian Eno) and The Catherine Wheel, a musical score commissioned by Twyla Tharp to accompany her dance project of the same name. Horton's drumming establishes a muscular funk foundation for much of the material, which also showcases Byrne's underrated guitar playing.

The Catherine Wheel (The Complete Score From The Broadway Production Of) lyrics. His Wife Refused lyrics. Under The Mountain lyrics. The Red House lyrics. Cloud Chamber lyrics. My Big Hands (Fall Through The Cracks) lyrics. The Blue Flame lyrics.

David Byrne Songs From 'The Catherine Wheel' UK vinyl LP. Product details. One person found this helpful. 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. Published on January 2, 2010.