DAVID BYRNE - “REI MOMO” TOUR - ROSELAND BALLROOM - NOV 1, 1989

Description: DAVID BYRNE - “REI MOMO” TOUR - ROSELAND BALLROOM - NOV 1, 1989 - TICKET. Setlist Elegibo (Margareth Menezes cover) (with Margareth Menezes) Office Cowboy The Rose Tattoo The Dream Police Mr. Jones (Talking Heads song) Dirty Old Town Good and Evil Lie to me Marching Through the Wilderness Women vs. Men Independence Day Ifá, Um Canto Pra Subir (Margareth Menezes cover) (with Margareth Menezes) Abra Aboca (Margareth Menezes cover) (with Margareth Menezes) Loco de amor Carnival Eyes The Call of the Wild Make Believe Mambo Encore: Don't Want to Be Part of Your World Papa Legba (Talking Heads song) The closer they get to a dance floor, the better David Byrne's newest songs sound. Five years after his last tour with Talking Heads, Mr. Byrne has assembled a 14-piece touring band of mostly Hispanic and Brazilian musicians, playing the songs from his new album, ''Rei Momo'' (King of Carnival). By the end of his set at Roseland on Monday, the start of a three-night stand, the band's salsa and samba rhythms had carried the audience into motion. The songs from ''Rei Momo'' grow out of Mr. Byrne's fascination with the Afro-Caribbean rhythms that underlie much of the world's popular music. He has focused on the Caribbean and South America, where the drumming and chanting of religious rituals are closely tied to secular dance music. The concert opened with the Brazilian singer Margareth Menezes and a percussion group, singing a medley of call-and-response songs akin to religious rituals; it ended with an edgy, potent version of ''Papa Legba'' from the Talking Heads' ''True Stories,'' Mr. Byrne's own incantation to a Yoruba deity. In between, songs used Caribbean merengue, bomba, rumba and cha-cha rhythms, Colombian cumbia and Brazilian pagode, mapeye and samba - all of them ignited by a sizzling percussion section. Older styles bounced along; more modern ones were bolstered by trumpets, trombones and saxophones punching out off-beats in the cross-rhythms of Marty Sheller's ingenious arrangements. Mr. Byrne urged the sold-out crowd to dance, and he followed his own advice, shaking hips and shoulders. He has never looked so loose and happy on stage.

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Location: New York, New York

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