“The Great Curve” by Talking Heads

"The Great Curve" comes from Remain in Light, the fourth Talking Heads album, released in 1980 and the third and last one Brian Eno produced for them. The writing credit tells the story of the whole record: the music belongs to David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth and Eno together, with Byrne writing the words and singing lead, because this time the point was to prove the band was more than Byrne's backing crew.

Cut that summer at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas and Sigma Sound in New York, the record was built from looping instrumental grooves, African polyrhythms and funk welded to electronics under the spell of Fela Kuti, while a blocked Byrne answered with scattershot, stream-of-consciousness lyrics. Dave Jerden engineered, with Kendal Stubbs assisting, and mixed it with Byrne, Eno and John Potoker.

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