The record, titled ‘Sounds Right’, has been developed by Eno in conjunction with the Museum for the United Nations, in the lead-up to Earth Day on April 22. Aurora and London Grammar are among the other artists enlisted as part of the project.
What was it like being in the studio with David Bowie? It was great but I’m somewhere else now.
"It’s an advantage of being a very simple musician that you have to find something that works. And once you do, you think: that worked, I’ll just keep doing it. That’s a hook.”
It is indeed a good hook, but why is it that he’s so reluctant to talk about the past? It is, after all, why so many people admire him, and why he has a platform to do stuff like this. “It really comes from doing interviews where people say” – and here he puts on the snivelling voice of the despised journo – “‘So what was it really like being in the studio with David Bowie?’ and you just think, fucking hell, man, it was great, but, you know, I’m somewhere else now.” (He told one interviewer that he has an “anti-nostalgia gene”.)
Bowie and Eno’s track ‘Get Real’ is a reworking of a song they recorded together during the ‘1. Outside’ sessions in the mid-’90s, and the new version incorporates recordings of hyenas and wild pigs to ground it in nature.
In a new interview on the Midnight Chats podcast, Eno has spoken about the creation of the track, and the choice to include the animal sounds. Listen below.
