Overview

• Byrne announced on Instagram Stories on Sept. 1 that he is "getting married this week" and linked to an Apple Music playlist titled Dinner Music for the wedding dinner.
• The playlist spans 42 mostly instrumental tracks and leans heavily on Latin music, including El Alfa, Café Tacvba, Son Rompe Pera, Mexican Institute of Sound and Meridian Brothers, alongside selections by Brian Eno and Herbie Hancock and an instrumental of Post Malone’s “Wow.”
• Explaining the choice, Byrne said lyrics can distract listeners, so he opted for buoyant instrumentals to create a hopeful, joyous atmosphere that guests can enjoy or ignore.
• The Instagram post comes after Byrne referred to Mala Gaonkar as his fiancée in a mid-August interview with The Times, following years of collaborations and public appearances together.
• The personal update arrives just ahead of the Sept. 5 release of Who Is The Sky? on Matador with Ghost Train Orchestra, with a tour starting Sept. 14 in Providence, Rhode Island.