Album
Who Is The Sky?
David Byrne With Ghost Train Orchestra
2025 · Rock
8 collectors on Gatefold own this
Who Is The Sky? is a Rock album by David Byrne With Ghost Train Orchestra, originally released in 2025. On Gatefold: 14 pressings tracked, owned by 8 collectors.
About
David Byrne’s last album, 2018’s <i>American Utopia</i>, wasn’t merely an album: It was a sprawling multimedia work that encompassed music, a stage show, and a film that captured the magic of its performance. In fact, it was so sprawling that its chronology even includes a lengthy period of dormancy, between opening on Broadway at the end of 2019 and restarting in 2021 after COVID restrictions were eased. “During the pandemic, of course, I wanted to write new song, but I felt like what was happening was bigger than anything I could write about,” Byrne tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe of that unexpected gap. “And I didn’t quite know how to address it.” While the songs that make up his eighth album under his given name, <i>Who Is the Sky?</i>, recorded with the musically elastic Ghost Train Orchestra, aren’t directly a product of that time, there are threads and themes that trace back to it. “I realized that some of these new songs are coming out of that,” he add. The most obvious is probably the ode to his living quarters “My Apartment Is My Friend,” where Byrne ruminates on how intimate that physical space has become. "So forgive me if I hesitate, if a tear comes now and then,” he sing. “You stood by me when darkness fell/My apartment is my friend.” .
via Apple Music
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Tracklist
- 1Everybody Laughs3:48
- 2When We Are Singing3:23
- 3My Apartment Is My Friend3:03
- 4A Door Called No2:35
- 5What Is The Reason For It? (feat. Hayley Williams)3:10
- 6I Met The Buddha at a Downtown Party3:13
- 7Don't Be Like That3:00
- 8The Avant Garde3:41
- 9Moisturizing Thing2:41
- 10I'm an Outsider3:32
- 11She Explains Things To Me2:18
- 12The Truth3:01
- 13DefCon1:16
Sound DNA
- Rock
- Art Rock
- polished
- swaggering
- urban
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Alex SoppFLUTE, GUEST GUEST , FLUTE
- Alex WatermanBAND , CELLO CELLO, PERFORMER ORCHESTRA , CELLO
- Andy LasterALTO SAXOPHONE, FLUTE, PERFORMER BAND , ALTO SAXOPHONE, FLUTE ORCHESTRA , ALTO SAXOPHONE, FLUTE
- Brandon SeabrookBAND , ELECTRIC GUITAR, ACOUSTIC GUITAR ELECTRIC GUITAR, ACOUSTIC GUITAR, PERFORMER ORCHESTRA , ELECTRIC GUITAR, ACOUSTIC GUITAR
- Brian CarpenterORCHESTRA , TRUMPET, DIRECTED BY TRUMPET, LEADER , PERFORMER ARRANGED BY
- Chris LightcapBAND , ELECTRIC BASS, ACOUSTIC BASS ELECTRIC BASS, ACOUSTIC BASS, PERFORMER ORCHESTRA , ELECTRIC BASS, ACOUSTIC BASS
- Curtis HasselbringBAND , TRUMPET, DIRECTED BY ORCHESTRA , TROMBONE TROMBONE, PERFORMER
- David ByrneGUITAR WRITTEN-BY, GUITAR, PERFORMER
- David CossinBAND , PERCUSSION, MARIMBA, VIBRAPHONE ORCHESTRA , PERCUSSION, MARIMBA, VIBRAPHONE PERCUSSION, MARIMBA, VIBRAPHONE
- Dennis LichtmanBAND , CLARINET CLARINET, PERFORMER ORCHESTRA , CLARINET
- Emily BookwalterBAND , VIOLA ORCHESTRA , VIOLA VIOLA, PERFORMER
- Ghost Train Orchestra
- Ginevra PetrucciFLUTE, GUEST GUEST , FLUTE
- Katie KresekBAND , VIOLIN ORCHESTRA , VIOLIN VIOLIN, PERFORMER
- Kid HarpoonDRUMS, SYNTH , BASS, GUITAR, PIANO, PERCUSSION, THEREMIN, ELECTRIC ORGAN DRUMS, SYNTH, BASS, GUITAR, PIANO, PERCUSSION, THEREMIN, ELECTRIC ORGAN GUEST, VOCALS
- Matt BauderBAND , CLARINET, TENOR SAXOPHONE, BARITONE SAXOPHONE CLARINET, TENOR SAXOPHONE, BARITONE SAXOPHONE, PERFORMER ORCHESTRA , CLARINET, TENOR SAXOPHONE, BARITONE SAXOPHONE
- Mauro RefoscoGUEST , PERCUSSION PERCUSSION, GUEST
- Rebecca el-SalehGUEST , HARP HARP, GUEST
8 collectors on Gatefold own this · 14 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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