My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

E284072

collaborative album experimental music album studio album

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is an influential 1981 experimental album by David Byrne and Brian Eno, renowned for its pioneering use of sampling and found vocals.

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Label	Occurrences
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts canonical	2
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (novel)	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2620574 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Context triple: [David Byrne, notableWork, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts]

A. Spirit of the Dead Watching
Spirit of the Dead Watching is a 1892 Symbolist painting by Paul Gauguin depicting a young Tahitian girl lying fearfully on her bed while a mysterious, ghostly figure looms in the background.
B. The Valley of Ghosts
The Valley of Ghosts is a mystery novel by British writer Edgar Wallace, known for its suspenseful crime plot and atmospheric setting.
C. The Serpent and the Rainbow
The Serpent and the Rainbow is a 1988 horror film directed by Wes Craven that blends voodoo folklore with psychological terror, loosely based on Wade Davis’s non-fiction book about Haitian zombification practices.
D. The Violent Bear It Away
The Violent Bear It Away is a Southern Gothic novel by Flannery O'Connor that explores themes of faith, prophecy, and destiny through the story of a young boy grappling with his religious calling in the rural American South.
E. The Big Man
The Big Man was the towering, charismatic saxophonist Clarence Clemons, best known for his powerful performances with Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Target entity description: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is an influential 1981 experimental album by David Byrne and Brian Eno, renowned for its pioneering use of sampling and found vocals.

A. Spirit of the Dead Watching
Spirit of the Dead Watching is a 1892 Symbolist painting by Paul Gauguin depicting a young Tahitian girl lying fearfully on her bed while a mysterious, ghostly figure looms in the background.
B. The Valley of Ghosts
The Valley of Ghosts is a mystery novel by British writer Edgar Wallace, known for its suspenseful crime plot and atmospheric setting.
C. The Serpent and the Rainbow
The Serpent and the Rainbow is a 1988 horror film directed by Wes Craven that blends voodoo folklore with psychological terror, loosely based on Wade Davis’s non-fiction book about Haitian zombification practices.
D. The Violent Bear It Away
The Violent Bear It Away is a Southern Gothic novel by Flannery O'Connor that explores themes of faith, prophecy, and destiny through the story of a young boy grappling with his religious calling in the rural American South.
E. The Big Man
The Big Man was the towering, charismatic saxophonist Clarence Clemons, best known for his powerful performances with Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	collaborative album ⓘ experimental music album ⓘ studio album ⓘ
artist	Brian Eno ⓘ David Byrne ⓘ
basedOn	novel My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola ⓘ
chronologyPosition	Fear of Music ⓘ surface form: follows Fear of Music (Talking Heads album) in Byrne–Eno collaborations precedes Remain in Light (Talking Heads album) in Byrne–Eno collaborations ⓘ
containsTrack	A Secret Life ⓘ America Is Waiting ⓘ Come with Us ⓘ Help Me Somebody ⓘ Mea Culpa ⓘ Mountain of Needles ⓘ Regiment ⓘ The Carrier ⓘ The Jezebel Spirit ⓘ
countryOfRelease	United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
criticalReception	widely acclaimed by music critics ⓘ
genre	ambient ⓘ avant-funk ⓘ electronic ⓘ experimental rock ⓘ worldbeat ⓘ
hasInfluenceOn	electronic music ⓘ sampling in popular music ⓘ world music fusion ⓘ
label	E.G. Records ⓘ surface form: EG Records Sire Records ⓘ
legacy	cited as an influence by many electronic and experimental artists ⓘ considered a landmark in sample-based music ⓘ
notableFor	pioneering use of sampling ⓘ use of ethnographic field recordings ⓘ use of found vocals ⓘ use of radio broadcasts as sound sources ⓘ
producer	Brian Eno ⓘ David Byrne ⓘ
recordingPeriod	1979–1980 ⓘ
releaseYear	1981 ⓘ
titleInspiredBy	My Life in the Bush of Ghosts self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (novel)
usesSource	Arabic music recordings ⓘ Islamic chants ⓘ field recordings ⓘ radio evangelists ⓘ
usesTechnique	found sound collage ⓘ looping ⓘ tape editing ⓘ

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David Byrne → notableWork → My Life in the Bush of Ghosts ⓘ

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts → titleInspiredBy → My Life in the Bush of Ghosts self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (novel)

Everything That Happens Will Happen Today → previousCollaboration → My Life in the Bush of Ghosts ⓘ

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