When describing Pull Out The Pin, she synaesthetically blurs the vocabulary of music with that of film, referring to wide shots and trying to focus on the pictures between the speakers. The song’s evocation of the Vietnam forest, humid...and pulsating with life is astonishing; all queasy protruding Danny Thompson double bass lines, musique concrete, Chinese drums and a distorted guitar sounding like a US soldier’s scratchy transistor. Much of these sounds were collated by drummer Preston Heyman in Bali. With its foliage of samples and cultures converging it nods to My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts, the landmark Byrne/Eno collaboration recorded in 79 but released in 81...The duo’s work had a big impact on Bush (and modern music in general as the singer herself noted). Soundscapes like Pull Of The Pin recall that album’s chattering spirit world but rendered more harrowing and de-funked.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 15:15:57 +0000
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