David Byrne's American Utopia - I Zimbra (Live on Colbert, 2021)

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2 жыл бұрын

David Byrne's American Utopia performing "I Zimbra" on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on November 1st 2021
David Byrne also appeared on The Late Show in March 2018 to perform "Everybody's Coming to My House", at the beginning of the American Utopia world tour which eventually went to Broadway, you can watch that here: • David Byrne Performs '...
From this same 2021 appearance, you can watch the interview where David teaches Stephen some dancing: • David Byrne Teaches St...
The performance of I Zimbra used to be available on KZfaq from the official Stephen Colbert channel, but for some reason they recently privated that upload - so this is more of a reupload
Just in case it ever becomes public again, here's the link to the original I Zimbra upload: • Video
Timestamps:
0:00 - introduction, David talking about Brian Eno & dada poetry
0:36 - performing the Ursonata by Kurt Schwitters
1:06 - talking about another dada artist, Hugo Ball (whose poem was adapted into the lyrics for I Zimbra)
1:31 - I Zimbra begins
American Utopia Band members:
Guitar - David Byrne, Angie Swan
Bass - Bobby Wooten III
Percussion - Mauro Refosco, Jacquelene Acevedo, Daniel Freedman, Gustavo Di Dalva, Stephane San Juan, Tim Keiper
Keyboard - Karl Mansfield
Dancing - Chris Giarmo, Tendayi Kuumba
The song is originally from the 1979 Talking Heads album Fear of Music, with writing credits to David Byrne, Brian Eno, and Hugo Ball

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@johnhickton2922 2 жыл бұрын

Let's face it - the man's a genius.

@ss7pln Жыл бұрын

Absolutely!!!!!

@marqueemark5174 Жыл бұрын

What's great about him is he is a full-fledged artist. He isn't just focused on the music but the presentation the look and the feeling it portrays. Completely a genius.

@rodrigoodonsalcedocisneros9266 10 ай бұрын

To be fair, all the TH members are geniuses. Byrne is the best lyricist of them though.

@four_touchdowns 7 ай бұрын

stop making sense was brilliant. This is just embarrasing

@Jimbo1221 Ай бұрын

@@four_touchdowns huh?? its ALL ridiculous!!! thats what makes it so amazing lol

@trentfarmer9862 Жыл бұрын

During the Pandemic I was having a bad patch with depression and in the middle of the night I woke up and looked at my phone and saw an ad for American Utopia in NYC. In the morning I logged on and purchased a ticket for the show knowing it wasn't the best seat in the house but didn't care. A few days later when I got to the theater and was directed up the steps to my seat I froze.... I have vertigo and was not able to walk down the steps to the seat at the top of the balcony. The attendant said to me, "Don't worry this happens all the time.... go down the lower level and I will call down to the attendant there and we have a seat for you." It was a great seat and the show was spectacular.

@phillipnations5482 25 күн бұрын

such a beautiful story. I saw it in Santa Barbara and was transcended. Easily in my top 5 shows ever and I have seen a lot of shows. It went on to be on Broadway for goodness sake. Genius gets tossed around a bit and Byrne is known to be a bit difficult, but when you get this kind of performance? Yep

@nsbd90now Жыл бұрын

I remember the very first time I heard this song when the record came out and I still love it.

@Alltoswift Жыл бұрын

It’s such a good song!

@saintbennithy 10 ай бұрын

I was lucky enough to see the show on Broadway. It was absolutely fantastic, wish I could have seen it again and again

@Joelswinger34 9 ай бұрын

I love how they are all wearing the grey suits!

@lisakwaterski6707 11 ай бұрын

I went to a major exhibit on Dada art in NYC and they had playing over speakers in the ceiling, Dada poetry. Zurich, Switzerland and Hugo Ball were the start of the movement. WWI influenced a lot of artists and writers in that time period. David Byrne has the madcap inventiveness of a lot of the performers back then.

@rolandosarabia810 Жыл бұрын

WOW 😳. Byrne is a master

@trentfarmer9862 Жыл бұрын

Top Ten favorite recording ... I wake in the middle of the night and hear this song in my head and it helps me fall back to sleep

@Biomirth Жыл бұрын

Same. One of my favorites growing up. It's always in the back of my head even when I'm playing something like Chopin.

@michaelcagle4662 4 ай бұрын

Have always thought he makes the world a better place.

@WoRN808 10 ай бұрын

Rocked out with headphones while playing air guitar to this musical piece for decades. Loved the live versions. And love the newer iterations, including this as well as Angelique Kidjo versions of Talking Heads album.

@De_liebste_un_beste_Mensch 6 ай бұрын

David Byrne is creative master in everything. His guitar alone is worth to be mentioned. Great thing is there a few videos on KZfaq to have a great overview about the developing artist. Start with CBGB's in 1975. Unbelievable...

@danielbrosky 5 ай бұрын

And, sadly, we have very few seriously creative people like David stepping up to follow him.

@manuelsaraiva8799 2 жыл бұрын

Just fantastic. Amazing. Espectacular. Wunderbar !!!

@LaWendeltreppe Жыл бұрын

Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, David Byrne, and Kurt Schwitters- who can ask for more?

@TwoNotFour Жыл бұрын

Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison

@carsten.3522 Жыл бұрын

@@TwoNotFour valid

@jpetersgoyanks Жыл бұрын

Me, but I understand the sentiment

@andreswz3297 Жыл бұрын

y fela kuti, no le restes impórtancia a esa influencia

@roninazure 10 ай бұрын

Peter Gabriel would be in the mix.

@lesliewoods2913 10 ай бұрын

David Byrne is the best!!!🎉

@warrenbfeagins 2 жыл бұрын

Favorite TH track ever.

@hugh-jasole 2 ай бұрын

It's not even the best song on Remain In Light

@LR-tk1bp 4 ай бұрын

I may not be able to identify art as a whole but I can see the artistic strokes of genius in this.

@danicav212 Жыл бұрын

I’ve never seen/heard anything more magical! I’m riveted. The musician with the armpit drum is chef’s kiss!

@bahzara Жыл бұрын

Epidemy of cool!

@jennw6809 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for this - it looks like the official Colbert version got taken down! Love this version!

@Nix_IoI Жыл бұрын

bruh

@Tao_Tology Жыл бұрын

@@themustar601 The official Colbert version would be........the performance on the Colbert show. 'congratulations' on knowing it was performed on Broadway.

@havefunbesafe Жыл бұрын

Damn it, I can't believe i missed seeing this!

@HughBarton-yc9uu 10 ай бұрын

Oh my goodness gracious!!!!! Dazzling. That

@bluesjinsoo Жыл бұрын

데이비드번은 천재닷🎉

@robynhills8650 10 ай бұрын

Genius! 😍

@tkshots 11 ай бұрын

brilliant

@ipc1962 Жыл бұрын

Maravilloso!!!!

@kotobuki5202 Жыл бұрын

1'31 本編デビッドバーン、健在だったんだ。1979年にリリースされた Fear Of Music に一時期はまってましたが、なかでもこの曲の繰り返しの心地よさに熱狂してました。いまだにこの曲をやってるんだ。しかもよりかっこよく。痺れました。

@davidstewart4825 3 ай бұрын

bloody genius

@AlexandraKaa 9 ай бұрын

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@ShawnCarroll-bb3yg Жыл бұрын

He is a mad beautiful genius,, up 👆 there with my man David Bowie ❤

@lorenzoiqq 2 жыл бұрын

Woww

@GodzillafriendMarker Ай бұрын

Come punto di partenza credo che siate a buon punto 🙌🏼🙌🏼

@gomezaddams4347 4 ай бұрын

Fear of Music has always been my favorite Talking Heads LP, and that’s saying something because I love their body of work.

@BIGeSTRING 13 сағат бұрын

Yes but Artist Only should stay on that album and not on the album before Fear of Music

@Sam_Perman Жыл бұрын

As much as love the dancers, I’m too distracted by the fact the male dancer looks like Mike McLintock from Veep

@MarcusBrannon 9 ай бұрын

A really happy Mike McLintock

@Nix_IoI Жыл бұрын

My retired chemistry teacher introduced this song to my class in the morning, but i fell asleep during the song and had a wicked dream even with the song still playing in my head from the video

@gordon8463 Жыл бұрын

So intello le gars David et ce n'est pas une critique....si intéressant avec tant de panache!!!!!

@kevinharrison3265 4 ай бұрын

👍🙏❤️😄

@user-bp3se7zm2x 5 ай бұрын

Even if reborn floudident Grump,You must be continue advance belivable way.Nobody can bend it！！

@JoelKurzynski 5 ай бұрын

Totally thought that was Murphy lol!

@TheHManShow 3 ай бұрын

And this song is went on to open Spider-Man No Way Home!!!

@peterhastetter4989 11 ай бұрын

hugo ball is the best from my birthtown Pirmasens , dada as its best

@anthonyharley620 11 ай бұрын

I me to and I said I had pancakes casner and I have been going through niet mater and I that stop dout I can't sleep now so IAM in doing okay and I will be fine and I will never bother you our enymore Elyse about it. I hope to get some sleep tonight and I have ok I you definitely have to get to Glasgow Scotland where ever you are and do you own this

@hudson8315 Жыл бұрын

Spider man no way home ❤

@AustCCS Жыл бұрын

Sorry - not a feather on the energy of the talking Heads version.....

@McCrap420 Жыл бұрын

Because David is 70, and this is what he chooses to do with his shows…

@BIGeSTRING 13 сағат бұрын

I just don't understand why they are all barefoot. Totally unnecessary. Just make music but leave out the posturing

@carbonsiliconnn 9 ай бұрын

Too choreographed for my liking

@dirkwellens 2 ай бұрын

Always look at the bright side of life, man. Are you always looking for a minor thing you don't like? If not choreographed, others will say: not enough choreography, too dull ...

@america1st721 5 ай бұрын

WOW!!!! this is beyond terrible

@yardman111100 11 ай бұрын

Unless you are a fan of David then this movie was a piece of crap. l walked out. Then afterwards realised it was a conditioning movie for the sheep during the pandemic to fall in line. At one point David says the words climate change and then silence for a couple of seconds just so the sheep can get emotional, like werw on board man. Pure crap cinema moment.

@dirkwellens 2 ай бұрын

Stop stop making sense, silly boy :)

@trippmiller6199 Жыл бұрын

So cultured and edgy

@vinny142 11 ай бұрын

It's so strange to see people praise Byrne as a music genius and then read the Wiki for this song where it says: 1. the lyrics are an adaptation of an existing poem that was made at least before 1926 when Hugo Ball died. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Zimbra#cite_note-2 2. Hugo Ball was quite the anti-semite, his works have been edited over the years to remove the anti-semitism and make Ball appear nicer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ball#Anti-Semitism 3. The music itself was heavily inspired by traditional african music. It's a good song, I like it, but literally nothing in it is thought up by Byrne and the guy who did make the lyrics would have his butt cancelled off the stage if he lived today.

@skooch5769 10 ай бұрын

Pretty sure byrne is called a musical genius for having an incredible 4-5 album run where they grew from a small punk band at CBGBs to writing remain in light in a short amount of time. Oh, and having likely the two best live records ever released. I dont byrne himself solely deserves credit for all of that, but he was the face of the band.

@skooch5769 10 ай бұрын

How I Zimbra was created doesnt really change much of that to me 🤷‍♂️

@buffstraw2969 7 ай бұрын

The guy who invented the transistor was an outspoken racist. So stop using anything with transistors in it.

@yomuin5389 5 ай бұрын

This is kind of a ridiculous take. It's like those copyright bozos that want to have ownership over ideas such as the C Major scale etc. Like, alright. From now in if someone invents a circular object that is extremely useful or valuable: "Well first of all, circles were already there. The act of inventing was already done a billion times and value is overrated." Oh and by the way I know a nazi that likes circles and objects. And chairs, and breathing. Just a take that has no other purpose but to undermine the clear genius of David Byrne. And somehow make a cringe political point at the same time. But one thing is for sure. Even if you claim you could've thought of putting the music and poem together - you didn't. Byrne did. And people respect him.