The Forest (album)

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The Forest
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Soundtrack album by
ReleasedJune 1991
Recorded1990–91
Genre Classical
Length61:34
Label Luaka Bop/Warner Bros. Records
David Byrne chronology
Rei Momo
(1989)
The Forest
(1991)
Uh-Oh
(1992)

The Forest is a mostly instrumental album by the American musician David Byrne, released in June 1991, inspired by the Epic of Gilgamesh and set during the later Industrial Revolution. Some of the music from this orchestral album was originally used in a Robert Wilson directed theatre piece with the same name. The Forest premiered at the Theater der Freien Volksbühne, West Berlin in 1988.

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NME 5/10 [1]

Track listing

All tracks composed by David Byrne

No.TitleLength
1."Ur"13:08
2."Kish"5:47
3."Dura Europus"3:27
4."Samara"5:40
5."Nineveh"3:34
6."Ava"12:14
7."Machu Picchu"3:14
8."Tula"4:20
9."Teotihuacan"2:37
10."Asuka"7:33

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
Worldwide1991 Luaka Bop/Warner Bros. LP7599-26584
CD26584
Cassette tape4-26584
2005 Sire CD?

"Forestry"

"Forestry" is a maxi-single by David Byrne containing dance and industrial remixes of pieces from The Forest by Jack Dangers, Rudy Tambala, and Anthony Capel.

Track listing

  1. "Ava" – Nu Wage Remix – Jack Dangers
  2. "Nineveh" – Industrial Mix – Jack Dangers
  3. "Ava" – Less Space Dance Mix Edit – Rudy Tambala / Anthony Capel
  4. "Ava" – Space Dance Mix – Rudy Tambala / Anthony Capel
  5. "Machu Picchu" – Album Version

References

  1. Page, Betty (27 July 1991). "Long Play". New Musical Express . p. 29.