I Zimbra

"I Zimbra"
UK vinyl single
Single by Talking Heads
from the album Fear of Music
B-side"Air" (3:33)
Released1980
Recorded1979
Genre
Length3:06
LabelSire
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Brian Eno
Talking Heads singles chronology
"Life During Wartime"
(1979)
"I Zimbra"
(1980)
"Cities"
(1980)
Official audio
"I Zimbra" (2005 Remaster) on YouTube

"I Zimbra" is a song by American new wave band Talking Heads, released as the second single from their 1979 album Fear of Music.

According to Sytze Steenstra in Song and Circumstance: The Work of David Byrne from Talking Heads to the Present, the music draws heavily on the African popular music Byrne was listening to at the time.[3]

  1. ^ Molanphy, Chris (October 14, 2023). "This Ain't No Party?! Edition". Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia (Podcast). Slate. Retrieved November 10, 2023.
  2. ^ Reynolds, Simon (January 1, 2005). "Prologue: The Unfinished Revolution". Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984. Faber & Faber. p. xviii. ISBN 0-571-21570-X.
  3. ^ Steenstra, Sytze (2010). Song and Circumstance: The Work of David Byrne from Talking Heads to the Present. New York: Continuum. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-8264-4559-9.