"I'm getting married this week and made an almost entirely instrumental playlist while our guests eat an amazing and spicy dinner,"
"My sense is that words and lyrics can be distracting - the ear goes to them, especially if it's a song one knows."
"So, I opted for buoyant instrumentals that will create a hopeful and joyous atmosphere... and that folks can also ignore at the same time."
"My fiancée will sometimes come at me with greasy hands, ready to smear my face. And at one point I thought, 'What if I wake up and really looked younger?' Hence the song. But there's a message, too. About how people judge us by the way we look. You learn a lesson you didn't expect at the start."
David Byrne is marrying Mala Gaonkar weeks after their engagement. An almost entirely instrumental 42-song, two-and-a-half-hour playlist will be played during the wedding dinner to minimize lyrical distraction and create a hopeful, joyous atmosphere. The playlist includes Brian Eno, Jeff Beck, Herbie Hancock, Henry Mancini, T Bone Burnett, El Alfa, Son Rompe Pera, and Meridian Brothers. The song "Moisturizing Things" draws from an image of a partner with greasy hands and addresses judgment based on appearance. The album Who Is the Sky? releases September 5 via Matador Records and will be supported by a multi-leg world tour.
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