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Artist | Brian Eno
Title | The Ship
Genre | Ambient Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 47:30
Label | Warp Records Store | 2016
Catalog | WARDCD272 Rip | 2016
Bitrate | 220 kbps Size | 77.40 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. The Ship 21:19
02. Fickle Sun I: Fickle Sun 18:03
03. Fickle Sun II: The Hour Is Thin 2:50
04. Fickle Sun III: I'm Set Free 5:18
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Ambient pioneer, glam rocker, hit producer, multimedia artist,
technological innovator, worldbeat proponent, and self-described
non-musician - over the course of his long, prolific, and immensely
influential career, Brian Eno was all of these things and much, much more.
Determining his creative pathways with the aid of a deck of instructional,
tarot-like cards called Oblique Strategies, Eno championed theory over
practice, serendipity over forethought, and texture over craft; in the
process, he forever altered the ways in which music is approached,
composed, performed, and perceived, and everything from punk to techno to
new age bears his unmistakable influence.
"The Ship" marks Brian Eno's first ambient album since 2012's "Lux". Work
on the album began as a 3-D sound installation in Stockholm, but altered to
stereo when Eno realized he could sing in a low C, "The Ship's" root note.
The Ship contains two works, the 21-minute title track, and the three-part
"Fickle Sun." The title piece, a reflection on the sinking of the Titanic,
recalls a moment in his distant past: he released Gavin Bryars' "Sinking Of
The Titanic" on his Obscure Music label in 1975.
The two could not be more different. Bryars' work, composed of a folk-like
chamber melody, is evolutionary; it changes as the composer learns more
about the event. "The Ship" is self-contained. It emerges from keyboard
sounds and samples in a drone that unfolds in gently undulating waves until
actual songs - freed from the concept of fixed rhythm - emerge. Eno's
singing voice fronts a two-chord melody that sets his subject inside the
frame of a rolling, undulant seascape. The narrative submerges individual
stories under a loose but inextricably connected narrative. Softly played
keyboards, synthesized strings (suggesting the ship's dance band), sonar
sounds, sampled ghost voices from radio broadcasts, and a siren chorale
(provided by the Elgin Marvels) allow sensory impressions from these
fragmented stories to emerge.
Eno's lyrics depict water, the boat, mortal transience, and the envelopment
of it all into a vast, roaring, eternal silence. His singing recedes into
droning chords and layers of ambient sound that all but consume spoken
voices in Catalan and English. In the end, all that remains are his words,
'wave, after wave, after wave'. By contrast, "Fickle Sun" begins
dramatically. The first section, over 18 minutes, reflects on the 'hubris
and arrogance' of WWI. Swirling, nightmarish sine pulses, blurry vocals,
and colliding keyboards create a dissonant, near-gothic drone. Eno's
chant-like monotone delivery recalls Nico's doomsday singing. The track
builds to a crescendo but it's subsumed by a stark, chilly ambience,
sampled radio voices and his own, by a vocoder framed by fragmented noise.
The feel is sinister and tense. The brief second part (subtitled 'The Hour
Is Thin') features a lone piano and is narrated by Peter Serafinowicz. It
adds poignancy and emotional resonance contrasting sharply with the first.
It crossfades into a reverential cover of Velvet Underground's "I'm Set
Free." Aided by Nell Catchpole's violin and viola, Jon Hopkins' layered
keyboards, and Leo Abrahams' guitar, Eno's own instrumentation - including
drums - and singing deliver a gorgeous reading. This pop note - drenched in
the haunted irony of Lou Reed's lyrics: 'I'm set free/To find a new
illusion' - almost decenters the record but ultimately underscores it as a
tender yet powerful commentary.
"The Ship" is a memorial to and meditation on history and human foibles.
Just as importantly, it places an exclamation point on Eno's career as
curiosity, experimentation, chance, and form gel; his relentless sense of
adventure remains undiminished by time.
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