The Forest (album)
| The Forest | ||||
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| Released | June 1991 | |||
| Recorded | 1990–91 | |||
| Genre | Classical | |||
| Length | 61:34 | |||
| Label | Luaka Bop/Warner Bros. Records | |||
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The Forest is a mostly instrumental album by David Byrne, released in 1991, inspired by the Epic of Gilgamesh and set during the later Industrial Revolution. Some of the music from this orchestral album was originally used in a Robert Wilson directed theatre piece with the same name. The Forest premiered at the Theater der Freien Volksbühne, West Berlin in 1988.
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | link |
| NME | 5/10 |