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==Background==
==Background==


=== Brian Eno's Involvement as Producer ===
=== Choosing a Producer ===
[[Brian Eno]] had previously worked with Talking Heads to producer their previous two album, ''[[More Songs About Buildings And Food]]'' and ''[[Fear of Music]].'' However, Eno was initially uninterested in continuing to work with the band. In an interview from 2024, Harrison has stated that "''[Eno] was not going to do the record. In fact, [[Rhett Davies]] was going to be the producer. Rhett Davies was the engineer that Brian brought in on More Songs About Buildings and Food, and he had gone on to produce Dire Straits and various other acts. So he was a producer/engineer."''<ref>Pehling, Dave. “CBS SF Talks to Talking Heads Member Jerry Harrison about Remain in Light.” Cbsnews.com, CBS San Francisco, 14 Aug. 2024, www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/interview-talking-heads-jerry-harrison-adrian-belew-remain-in-light/. Accessed 22 Aug. 2024.</ref>
[[Brian Eno]] had previously worked with Talking Heads to producer their previous two album, ''[[More Songs About Buildings And Food]]'' and ''[[Fear of Music]].'' However, Eno was initially uninterested in continuing to work with the band. In an interview from 2024, Harrison has stated that "''[Eno] was not going to do the record. In fact, [[Rhett Davies]] was going to be the producer. Rhett Davies was the engineer that Brian brought in on More Songs About Buildings and Food, and he had gone on to produce Dire Straits and various other acts. So he was a producer/engineer."''<ref name=":2">Pehling, Dave. “CBS SF Talks to Talking Heads Member Jerry Harrison about Remain in Light.” Cbsnews.com, CBS San Francisco, 14 Aug. 2024, www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/interview-talking-heads-jerry-harrison-adrian-belew-remain-in-light/. Accessed 22 Aug. 2024.</ref>


=== African Influence ===
=== African Influence ===
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==Recording==
==Recording==
Similar to ''Fear of Music,'' Talking Heads entered studio recording sessions with incomplete song ideas that originated from jam sessions. These would evolve into the full fledge songs for the record, involving complex and heavy layering of many different studio recorded tracks.<ref name=":1" />
Similar to ''Fear of Music,'' Talking Heads entered studio recording sessions with incomplete song ideas that originated from jam sessions. These would evolve into the full fledge songs for the record, involving complex and heavy layering of many different studio recorded tracks.<ref name=":1" />
=== Eno Becomes Involved ===
At some point during the recording sessions, Eno went to [[Compass Point Studios]]. According to Harrison, this led to [[Rhett Davies]] leaving the project and as Eno began to work as both the studio engineer and producer, "''everything kind of basically ground to a halt.''" Eventually [[Dave Jerdan]] would be chosen as engineer, and "''we started to really move.''"<ref name=":2" />


==Release and Promotion==
==Release and Promotion==
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