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Product Description: With spectacular visual effects - animation, computer generated figures - this program is a phenomenal dance experience. But it's the music that matters here. Sounding more like a missing Talking Heads session than anything remotely like Byrne's 1990s-era work (this is after all recorded in 1981), the music was composed and produced to accompany a Twyla Tharp-choreographed dance event, and for program music it's brilliant enough to stand alone. The 73 minutes are almost seamless, weaving ambient soundscapes with loopy percussion-backed bass runs with guitar strumming across the top, sounding both like his band and entirely different from them. You can hear in The Catherine Wheel where Byrne was heading (i.e., heavily rhythmic music) years before the Heads were disbanded and he ventured into life as a Brazilian- and Latin-music impresario. It's the sound of a young genius having free reign, and as such it's exceptional.