Amoeba Music

By Charles Reece

For all its roots in the conceptual art movement of the 20^th century, where thought took precedent over craft, Talking Heads was as committed to the physical pleasures of music as it was to exploring aesthetic ideas.  The band brought Steve Reich’s exploration in the connections between minimalism and African rhythms to the more commercial American realm of pop, soul and funk, without ever becoming a minstrel show.  Phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty argued that the world is “pregnant with meaning” as a way of circumventing the philosophical tension between mind and body.  Any idea we might have of an object is already grounded in our bodily experience – our... Read More

Genre:

Rock, Post Punk, Soul, Funk, World, New Wave

City Of Origin:

New York, ,New York United States

Formed Date:

1974