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Rei Momo

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Released
  
3 October 1989

Rei Momo (1989)
  
The Forest (1991)

Release date
  
25 September 1989

Length
  
63:37

Artist
  
David Byrne

Label
  
Sire Records

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Producers
  
David Byrne, Steve Lillywhite

Genres
  
Music of Latin America, Alternative rock, Worldbeat, Latin music

Similar
  
David Byrne albums, Alternative rock albums

Rei Momo is an album by David Byrne, released on 3 October 1989 that features many Afro-Cuban, Afro-Hispanic, and Brazilian song styles including merengue, Cuban Son, samba, mambo, cumbia, cha-cha-chá, bomba, and charanga.

Contents

Initially, the album was released with three more tracks on the cassette tape than the LP; all songs are present on the compact disc.

Performed track 4 on Saturday Night Live's Thanksgiving show 1989.

David byrne rei momo 1 independence day cumbia


Track listing

All tracks composed by David Byrne; except where indicated

  1. "Independence Day" – 5:45 (Cumbia) (feat. Kirsty MacColl)
  2. "Make Believe Mambo" – 5:23 (Orísa) (feat. Kirsty MacColl & Willie Colón)
  3. "The Call of the Wild" (Byrne, Johnny Pacheco) – 4:55 (Merengue)
  4. "Dirty Old Town" – 4:12 (Mapeyé)
  5. "The Rose Tattoo" (Byrne, Willie Colón) – 3:50 (Bomba/Mozambique)
  6. "Loco de Amor" (Byrne, Pacheco) – 3:51 (Salsa/Reggae) (feat. Celia Cruz)
  7. "The Dream Police" – 3:00 (Cha cha cha) (feat. Kirsty MacColl)
  8. "Don't Want to Be Part of Your World" – 4:55 (Samba) (feat. Kirsty MacColl)
  9. "Marching Through the Wilderness" (Byrne, Pacheco) – 4:30 (Charanga) (feat. Milton Cardona)
  10. "Good and Evil" – 4:35 (Rumba/Llesa)
  11. "Lie to Me" – 3:40 (Merengue) (feat. Kirsty MacColl)
  12. "Office Cowboy" (Byrne, Arto Lindsay) – 3:40 (Pagode) (feat. Herbert Vianna)
  13. "Women vs Men" – 4:06 (Bolero)
  14. "Carnival Eyes" – 4:04 (Mapeyé) (feat. Milton Cardona)
  15. "I Know Sometimes a Man Is Wrong" – 3:11

Songs

1Independence Day5:46
2Make Believe Mambo5:23
3The Call of the Wild4:53

References

Rei Momo Wikipedia
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