Word: reis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Byrne, the lead singer of the Talking Heads, said his dissatisfaction with the disco music of the 1970s led him to the investigation of "tropicalismo" that culminated in Rei Momo, his new solo album and the compilation albums Beleza Tropical and O Samba...
...fact, when Byrne first started composing for Rei Momo, he would bring music he recorded on his fourtrack to Milton Cardona, a Puerto Rican musician living in New York...
Earlier this year Byrne, the leader of Talking Heads, assembled a sampling of 1970s Brazilian pop on the Fly/Sire Records album Beleza Tropical: Brazil Classics Vol. I. This month a follow-up collection, O Samba: Brazil Classics Vol. 2, is due to appear, along with Rei Momo, Byrne's solo album based on Brazilian and other Latin song styles. Simon is planning to include Brazilian- inspired material in his next album, scheduled for release in early 1990. Gabriel, whose new Real World label focuses on non-Western music, based his score for the film The Last Temptation of Christ...
...animals are present in "his" dreams, they play an even larger part in the final song of Rei Momo as well. As Byrne gives credits to "frogs, birds and fly samples," so do these unusual "instruments" make up the haunting and harmonic background of "I Know Sometimes a Man is Wrong," in which Byrne sings that he will be incomplete "until you're next...
...clear that Byrne and the back-up musicians had a fun, if not exhausting, time mixing the styles which make up Rei Momo; one time through this fast paced selection of music will have you having fun as well...