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Here Lies Love
David Byrne & Fatboy Slim
Here Lies Love
David Byrne & Fatboy Slim
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 Róisín 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.
Media | Music VINYL LP (Vinyl) |
Number of records | 2 |
Released | August 11, 2023 |
EAN/UPC | 0075597905557 |
Label | NONESUCH 75597905557 |
Genre | Pop |
Dimensions | 320 × 323 × 5 mm · 450 g |
Track list
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1. LP
- Here Lies Love - Vocal by Florence Welch (Florence & the Mac
- Every Drop of Rain - Vocal by Candie Payne & St. Vincent
- You'll Be Taken Care of - Vocal by Tori Amos
- The Rose of Tacloban - Vocal by Martha Wainwright
- A Perfect Hand - Vocal by Steve Earle
- Eleven Days - Vocal by Cyndi Lauper
- When She Passed by - Vocal by Allison Moorer
- Walk Like a Woman - Vocal by Charmaine Clamor
- Don't You Agree? - Vocal by Rsismn Murphy
- Pretty Face - Vocal by Camille
- Ladies in Blue - Vocal by Theresa Andersson
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2. LP
- Dancing Together - Vocal by Sharon Jones
- How Are You? - Vocal by Nellie Mckay
- Men Will Do Anything - Vocal by Alice Russell
- The Whole Man - Vocal by Kate Pierson
- Never So Big - Vocal by Sia
- Please Don't - Vocal by Santi White [santigold]
- American Troglodyte - Vocal by David Byrne
- Solano Avenue - Vocal by Nicole Atkins
- Order 1081 - Vocal by Natalie Merchant
- Seven Years - Vocal by Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond)
- Why Don't You Love Me? - Vocal by Tori Amos & Cyndi Lauper