Remain in Light is the fourth studio album by American rock band Talking Heads. It was recorded at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas and Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia between July and August 1980. The album peaked at number nineteen on the US Billboard 200 and number 21 on the UK Albums Chart. It is often considered Talking Heads’ magnum opus, and is considered one of the most influential albums in the history of rock music.
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Remain in Light is the fourth studio album by American rock band Talking Heads. It was recorded at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas and Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia between July and August 1980. The album peaked at number nineteen on the US Billboard 200 and number 21 on the UK Albums Chart. It has been featured in several publications’ lists of the best albums of the 1980s and of all time. In 2017, the Library of Congress deemed the album ‘culturally, historically, or artistically significant’ and selected it for preservation in the National Recording Registry. The artwork for the album was conceived by bassist Tina Weymouth and drummer Chris Frantz, and was crafted with the help of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s computers and design company M&Co. The band expanded to nine members for a promotional tour, and following its completion, they went on hiatus for several years, leaving the individual members to pursue side projects. In January 1980, the members of Talking Heads returned to New York City after the tours in support of their 1979 critically acclaimed third album, Fear of Music, and took time off to pursue personal interests. Singer David Byrne worked with Brian Eno, the record’s producer, on an experimental album, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. The sessions incorporated a variety of side musicians, including guitarist Adrian Belew, singer Nona Hendryx, and trumpet player Jon Hassell. Byrne struggled with writer’s block, but adopted a scattered, stream-of-consciousness lyrical style inspired by early rap and academic literature on Africa.
The group experimented with African polyrhythms, funk, and electronics, recording instrumental tracks as a series of looping grooves. Instead of the band writing music to Byrne’s lyrics, Talking Heads performed instrumental jams, using the Fear of music song \”I Zimbra\” as a starting point. It is often considered Talking Heads’ magnum opus, and is considered one of the most influential albums in the history of rock music. It spawned the singles \”Once in a Lifetime\” and \”Houses in Motion” The band and Eno experimented with the communal way of making Afrodisiac music, the 1973 record by Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, which became the template for the music on the album. They also used the same percussionists throughout the recording process after watching a Japanese game show of Melody Attack. The recording sessions required the use of additional musicians, particularly percussionists, particularly drummer David Gans, who instructed them to use the same title for the song: “mistakes” The album’s creation required the band to experiment, improvise and make use of a number of different percussion instruments, particularly the same Melody Attack show of a Japanese show of the same name. The members of the group realised that it had been solely up to Byrne to craft songs even though they were performed as a quartet. They had tired of the notion of a singer leading a backup band; the ideal they aimed for, according to Byrne, was’sacrificing our egos for mutual cooperation’
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