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}} ''Everything That Happens Will Happen Today'' is the second album made in collaboration between David Byrne and Brian Eno, released on August 18, 2008, by Todo Mundo. The album explores themes of humanity versus technology and optimism in spite of bleak circumstance through the blending of electronic and gospel music. Critical reception was largely positive and the album received awards for both the musical content as well as the packaging and technical production. This album is the first joint effort between the two musicians since 1981's ''My Life in the Bush of Ghosts'' and Eno's work producing and co-writing with Talking Heads. Byrne and Eno worked on the tracks in their home studios throughout 2007 and early 2008 and sent digital copies of the recordings to one another over e-mail. The single "Strange Overtones" was released for free to promote the album and Byrne toured through 2008 and 2009, performing songs from this release as well as the duo's previous collaborations. This tour was later documented with the live extended play ''Everything That Happens Will Happen on This Tour – David Byrne on Tour: Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno'' and the concert film ''Ride, Rise, Roar''. ''Everything That Happens Will Happen Today'' was released with a unique marketing strategy that involved Byrne creating the vanity label Todo Mundo and hiring Internet startup company Topspin Media to promote the album online using word-of-mouth and Internet sales to market the music. Several formats were created to allow users to have options on how to listen to the music—from free streaming audio to a deluxe package housed in a tin. ==Background== In December 2007, David Byrne announced on the BBC Radio music show ''The Weekender'' that he was working with former collaborator Brian Eno on a brand new album of "proper songs," describing it as a "completely different thing" from the experimental ''My Life in the Bush of Ghosts''. While the two were discussing the 2006 re-release of that album at a dinner party, Eno suggested adding lyrics and vocals〔 to some of his unfinished songs,〔 some of which were eight years old.〔 The duo did not initially plan on making an entire album, but eventually felt confident enough to finish a full collection of songs.〔 Although the two had discussed making an album together for several years, this was their first sincere effort since the early 1980s.〔 Byrne visited Eno's London studio to listen to the demos〔 and the two decided to collaborate to finish writing the songs, leaving Eno and Peter Chilvers to convert a variety of digital music formats into MIDI, thereby stripping out extraneous information and making them suitable for Byrne to embellish.〔 (Chilvers would be thanked in the liner notes for "Digital Archaeology".)〔 The two continued to work on this and other musical projects for several months and agreed that if the project was not enjoyable, they would abandon it.〔 The duo decided to not announce their new collaboration for fear that they may not complete an album's worth of new material,〔 or that they would end up re-treading their previous collaborations and decide against releasing the new songs.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Everything That Happens Will Happen Today」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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