David Byrne - Knee Plays
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Artist: David ByrneEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Music Label: Wea/Atlantic/Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Tree (Today Is an Important Occasion)
- In the Upper Room
- Sound of Business
- Social Studies
- (The Gift of Sound) Where the Sun Never Goes Down
- Theadora Is Dozing
- Admiral Perry
- I Bid You Goodnight
- Things to Do (I've Tried)
- Winter
- Jungle Book
- In the Future
- Tree (Reprise) [*][Instrumental]
- I've Tried (Things to Do) [*][Instrumental]
- Tic Toc 2 (In the Future) [*][Instrumental]
- Whisper [Kabuki]
- Misterias [Kabuki]
- Faust Dance [Kabuki]
- Ghost [Kabuki]
- Super Natural [Kabuki]
- Tree (Today Is an Important Occasion) [DVD][*]
- In the Upper Room [DVD][*]
- Sound of Business [DVD][*]
- Social Studies [DVD][*]
- (The Gift of Sound) Where the Sun Never Goes Down [DVD][*]
- Theadora Is Dozing [DVD][*]
- Admiral Perry [DVD][*]
- I Bid You Goodnight
- Things to Do (I've Tried) [DVD][*]
- Winter [DVD][*]
- Jungle Book [DVD][*]
- In the Future [DVD][*]
- Tree (Reprise) [DVD][*]
Free Music Notes for Knee Plays
Free Music Review: Beautifully Crafted
Hit: 5 Stars
As other reviewers, especially Vaughan and Michael (thanks, guys), have well noted, this music is beautifully crafted. Let me just add that the CD/DVD and packaging are also beautifully crafted. When one holds the package one feels the art is tangible as well as audible.
After waiting so many years, hearing "Tree (Today is an Important Occasion" playing in my head, what a blissful relief to hear Mr. Byrne narrating it again. I bet others know just what I mean.
Knee Plays Poster
The Knee Plays were commissioned in 1985 by avant-garde theatre director Robert Wilson for his 12-hour opera, CIVIL warS. David Byrne was one of six composers hand-selected for the opera, and his interludes were the joints between the larger acts. CIVIL warS was never performed in its entirety, but The Knee Plays did just that in various U.S. and European cities. The brass stars in this show, on both the rhythm and melody fronts, yet most of the songs mope along like a funeral march when they aren't providing dramatic tension. For all of Byrne's heady explorations, the man has an ample populist streak, and one needn't comprehend this music so much as merely sit back and enjoy it. In his peculiar deadpan, Byrne speaks in several pieces: a geeky, meticulous parsing of our daily the minutia (getting dressed, grocery shopping, writing letters, etc.). Subtly droll observational humor (or implicit criticism) reigns, just as Byrne fans expect. In treating The Knee Plays to their first release on CD, Nonesuch adds eight instrumental versions and a bonus DVD, featuring the original 57-minute theatrical performance as a slideshow with music. In all, it's an unearthed essential for Byrne fans. --Jason PaceClassical Music CDs
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