Brian Eno On New David Bowie Remix ‘Get Real’
Brian Eno has spoken about his new remix of David Bowie‘s Get Real, a song he originally wrote and produced with Bowie for the 1.Outside album. Listen to the track, which incorporates wildlife sounds, below.
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The remix has been released as part of a global music initiative called Sounds Right, which has made Nature an official artist on streaming platforms to raise money for earth conservation.
Thanks to Sounds Right, a share of royalties from any song that credits Nature as an artist will go to EarthPercent, a charity founded by Eno. The organization will then distribute that money to conservation and restoration projects in the world’s “most precious and precarious ecosystems” under the guidance of the Sounds Right Expert Advisory Panel, a group of world-leading biologists, environmental activists, Indigenous People’s representatives, and experts in conservation funding.
“Well, I’ve got a number of recordings of different animals here,” Eno told the Midnight Chats podcast. “I wanted big, slightly menacing animals in the song. Not birds and wind and things like that. So I tried a Siberian tiger, that was a bit too overwhelming. I tried some rooks. I’ve always loved rooks, but they sounded like ducks in that context, which is not quite the same message. And the two I’ve settled on and I’m working with at the moment – I haven’t finished this piece yet – are hyenas and wild pigs.”
“The wild pigs sound really good. They’re in a kind of frequency range which is quite hard to fit into the music, but I’m working on that. So yes we’ll have David, Bri and some wild pigs!”
Eno went on to say that he thinks Bowie would have “loved it”, adding: “Yeah, he’d say: ‘Sounds good to me, Bri. I think we should go ahead with that’.”