Eno’s engagement with ethnic music – which he says began when he encountered Fela Kuti’s Afro-beat in 1974 – reached fruition in the 1979-80 period with recordings made in collaboration first with David Byrne and Byrne’s band Talking Heads, and second with avant-garde composer Jon Hassell. Like Material during the same time period, Eno and Byrne utilize a primitive form of sampling by incorporating found voice recordings but, in My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts, they become lead vocal tracks around which the musicians construct a new kind of psychedelic funk-rock which, by the end of the album, assumes an experimental tribal resonance.