Artist:David Byrne
Release:Rei Momo 
Released: 1989
Label: Sire / Luaka Bop/Sire
Catalog#: K 9259902
Format: FLAC / Lossless / Log (100%) / Cue
Country: USA
Style: latin

01. Independence Day (Cumbia) (5:47)
02. Make Believe Mambo (Orisa) (5:23)
03. The Call of the Wild (Merengue) (4:53)
04. Dirty Old Town (Mapeyé) (4:13)
05. The Rose Tattoo (Bomba/Mozambique) (3:52)
06. Loco de Amor (Salsa/Reggae) (3:46)
07. The Dream Police (Cha Cha Cha) (3:00)
08. Don't Want to Be Part of Your World (Samba) (4:58)
09. Marching Through the Wilderness (Charanga) (4:31)
10. Good and Evil (Rumba/Llesa) (4:35)
11. Lie to Me (Merengue) (3:37)
12. Office Cowboy (Pagode) (3:42)
13. Women vs. Men (Bolero) (4:06)
14. Carnival Eyes (Mapeyé) (4:08)
15. I Know Sometimes a Man Is Wrong (3:05)

Three years after Paul Simon's Graceland, the most identifiable member (by far) of the Talking Heads ventured way beyond his band's terrain with his solo debut. With Rei Momo, David Byrne inaugurated his plunge into Latin American music, doing so with a variety of styles, from son to salsa to merengue to samba, each lit with horn charts and piles of rhythm. The album, like Graceland, inspired some critiques (many of them vehement) of Byrne's cherry picking of styles, which smacked a bit of postmodern exotica. The album certainly genre hops, mixing national styles with lyrics that gnash about Latin American political and human rights concerns. Released a decade prior to the late-1990s fascination with native Cuban popular music, Rei Momo sheds light on the background for the explosion of interest in Buena Vista Social Club as well as the meteoric rise of Latin pop, which shares Byrne's border-agnostic mesh of all available styles. More than anything, though, Rei Momo stands as one of Byrne's most inspired outings, perhaps even as an early pinnacle of his now-lengthy solo career.