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1981 single by David Byrne
"
The Jezebel Spirit
" is the fifth song
[1]
from the 1981
album
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
by
David Byrne
and
Brian Eno
. It was released as a
single
the same year.
Content
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The song includes a "
found sound
"?an
exorcism
performed by an anonymous exorcist?over
Afrobeat
music similar to that Byrne and Eno had used in the
Talking Heads
album
Remain in Light
.
[2]
The exorcism was to have been a recording of
Kathryn Kuhlman
, but her estate prohibited the use of her voice.
[3]
The phrase "
Jezebel
spirit" is referencing a woman in the
Book of Kings
in the
Hebrew Bible
. Based on stories in that chapter, Jezebel has become associated with
prostitution
.
Reception
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While the album was generally well received by critics, the song attracted negative criticism.
Jon Pareles
wrote in
Rolling Stone
magazine that Byrne and Eno had used the exorcism for their own purposes and "trivialized the event".
[4]
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