Here Lies Love

Byrne, David & Fatboy Slim

Here Lies Love
David Byrne & Fatboy Slim's acclaimed 2010 album Here Lies Love receives it's first-ever vinyl release to coincide with a new production opening on Broadway this summer. Here Lies Love is a double-disc song cycle - improbably poignant, decidedly surreal, surprisingly thought provoking - about the rise and fall of the Philippines' notorious Imelda Marcos. It was conceived by David Byrne; composed by Byrne and DJ/recording artist Fatboy Slim, AKA Norman Cook; and performed by a dream cast drawn from the worlds of indie rock, alt country, R&B and pop. Byrne's taste in collaborators is as imaginative as it is impeccable, including Cyndi Lauper (who recounts, to lighthearted disco beats, Imelda's courtship with Ferdinand Marcos), Steve Earle (as the power-hungry Ferdinand), Dap-Kings vocalist Sharon Jones (recalling Imelda's introduction into New York society) and Natalie Merchant (as spurned Imelda confidante Estrella, anticipating the onset of martial law). Along with vocals turns from such stars as Tori Amosand the B-52's Kate Pierson, Byrne works with rising indie rockers St. Vincent and My Brightest Diamond; New York chanteuses Nellie McKayand, Martha Wainwright; and dance-music divas RA3isA-n Murphy and Santigold. Byrne himself appears as the voice of imperialistic America on 'American Troglodyte', a send-up that wouldn't have seemed out of places in Talking Heads' True Stories.
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Format
LP · 1 disc
Release
11-08-2023
Label
Item-nr
1304510
EAN
0075597905557
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Not in stock

Tracks

Title
Artist
1
HERE LIES LOVE
2
EVERY DROP OF RAIN
3
YOU'LL BE TAKEN CARE OF
4
THE ROSE OF TACLOBAN
5
HOW ARE YOU?
6
A PERFECT HAND
7
ELEVEN DAYS
8
WHEN SHE PASSED BY
9
WALK LIKE A WOMAN
10
DON'T YOU AGREE
11
PRETTY FACE
12
LADIES IN BLUE
13
DANCING TOGETHER
14
MEN WILL DO ANYTHING
15
THE WHOLE MAN
16
NEVER SO BIG
17
PLEASE DON'T
18
AMERICAN TROGODYTE
19
SOLANO AVENUE
20
ORDER 1081
21
SEVEN YEARS
22
WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME?