Arch English ‘non-musician’, Roxy Music’s departed distortion master, the producer Television rejected, progenitor of the whole radical synthesizer trend, the receding video experimenter who breathed new life into New York by unearthing the ‘No Wave’ bands, Robert Fripp’s sidekick, the guy who helped David Bowie re-invent himself with Low and, perhaps most remarkably, the producer/collaborator who’s led stark American outfit Talking Heads through a series of albums which saw them ultimately metamorphose late last year, with Remain In Light, into a bizarre funk orchestra gang amid accusations of cultural imperialism.Nevertheless, after various copyright problems, group leader David Byrne and Eno have just unleashed a much-discussed LP project which further explores what Eno refers to as his ‘African psychedelic vision’. Called My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts, it features much ‘found’ material from disc and radio (everything from Algerian chants to politicians to exorcists) backed by Eno, Byrne and a host of other musicians working up a percussive sweat.What can it all mean? To try to find out we talked to Eno by ‘phone in New York, where he was busy smoking ciggies and drinking cups of tea…
