Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

David Byrne and Brian Eno have paired up for their first record together as co-writers since the highly influential and critically acclaimed 1981 release My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Everything That Happens Will Happen Today is the culmination of a year s worth of writing, recording, and travel<br>between New York and London.<br>Everything That Happens... was conceptualized during a visit to Brian Eno s studio after the two reconnected<br>upon Nonesuch Records re-release of Bush of Ghosts. Byrne explains, ''I recall Brian mentioning that he<br>had a lot of largely instrumental tracks he d accumulated, and since, in his words, he hates writing words, <br>I suggested I have a go at writing some words, and tunes over a few of them, and we see what happens.''<br>Thus the two began exchanging vocal and instrumental tracks, and the transatlantic collaboration began.<br>Everything That Happens...features Byrne s lyrics and voice alongside Eno s various electronic tracks.<br>''When we started this work, we started to think we were making something like electronic gospel: a music where singing was the central event, but whose sonic landscapes were not the type normally associated<br>with that way of singing,'' says Eno. ''This thought tapped into my long love affair with gospel music, which,<br>curiously, was inadvertently initiated by David and the Talking Heads.''