As in high school, I'm still doing my homework largely due to my inability to remain focused and instead doing things, like, posting silly music blogs n shit.
Anyway, moving onto another cassette while I continue working at the keyboard, this The Forest album by David Byrne.
Believe it or not, The Forest is a mostly instrumental album by Byrne, released in 1991, inspired by the Epic of Gilgamesh and set during the later Industrial Revolution. Some of the music from this orchestral album was originally used in a Robert Wilson directed theatre piece with the same name, premiering at the Theater der Freien Volksbühne, West Berlin in 1988.
Didn't see that coming, eh?
The music is stately, near-classical, and like none of his other recordings except his Academy Award-winning music for The Last Emperor. Byrne always was an eclectic, and in a purely musical environment (there are a few stray lyrics, but nothing to speak of), he is free to move from the European classical tradition to those of Japan and the Middle East, among other places. Depending upon your point of view, the result is either a pleasant travelogue or a mess ... or maybe both.
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