A drop of water? Although history will most likely − and with good reason − record the Talking Heads as the sweet spot of his career, David Byrne has been involved in a long list of eclectic – not to say bewildering – projects since the end of his emblematic band in 1991. This drop of water is lost in an ocean of creativity where vastly different musicians such as Brian Eno, Fatboy Slim, St Vincent, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Caetano Veloso, Anna Calvi, the Dirty Projectors, Richard Thompson, Arcade Fire and even De La Soul rub shoulders with stage director Bob Wilson, film director Jonathan Demme, choreographer Twyla Tharp… An endless, even daunting list to which you can add ventures as a writer (the autobiography How Music Works and the book Bicycle diaries), as a label founder (Luaka Bop) and a DJ on a web radio (Radio David Byrne). The height, or ultimate demonstration of his artistic agitation was his appearance in 2003 as himself in an episode of The Simpsons, the Hall of Fame of American pop culture!
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