Brian Eno The Ship

Now also available on KZbin, ‘The Ship’ is the title track from Brian Eno’s album out 29 April.
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"‘The Ship’ started as an Ambient work intended for a multi channel sound installation in Stockholm, but during the making of it I discovered that I could now sing a low C - which happens to be the root note of the piece. Getting older does have a few fringe benefits after all. From that point the work turned into an unusual kind of song...a type I've never made before where the vocal floats free, untethered to a rhythmic grid of any kind."
Brian Eno
Also available on,
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brian-eno.net/

[@GYMCENTRAL1]

Brian Eno has said the title is a reference to the sinking of Titanic, which he has called "the apex of human technical power, set to be man's greatest triumph over nature". The album was originally conceived as a multi-channel sound installation, when Eno discovered that he could sing in a low C: "As you get older, you know, your voice drops, so you sort of gain a semi-tone at the bottom and lose about six at the top every year. That's what's happened to me. So I've suddenly got this new, low voice I can sing with, and I just started singing with that piece. And, so it was the first time I thought, "Oh, what about making a song that you could walk around inside?"

[@ajhoncantara]

No one paints a landscape with sound like Brian Eno.

[@matthiasstegemeyer1874]

... i am just producing a new ambient Album. i will introduce when comes out, maybe u like my work too ...

[@MarquisDeSang]

I see a desktop backgournd in my mind.

[@daddyb60]

Forty two years since "Evening Star" and I am still floating away to this man's music. Thank you for your gift, Brian Eno! My life is richer for it!

[@ladyblackstardust390]

I'm so happy to listen to Brian Eno for over 40 years. I'm loving this album.

[@rogerferns5511]

Dr Eno still keeping all the old hippies off drugs with his therapeutic audio reveries...

[@mindbodydisconnect4082]

I never need to do drugs when I have music.

[@4quercus]

Perfectionism. The music sounds to be sculptured in marble .

[@KUPHSER]

FM

[@vascogoncalves2059]

Like Oporto wine with age gets better. Brian Eno excellent music.

[@markmower6507]

First time I have heard Brian Eno. Reminds me of the first time I heard Kitaro, it grabs you and takes you to a peaceful place.

[@Neearm]

Have a listen to Apollo. Made with Daniel Lanois, a long time ago. Here Come the Warm Jets is pretty good, too.

[@jungletimes]

I enjoy his music since the early seventies. This is really great stuff - and very characteristic for him. :-)

[@littlerobbie9648]

theses are sounds ,not music

[@cjmitchell37]

Slightly reminds me of Sylvian/Czukay's 'Plight & Premonition'. That's a good thing!

[@morebento]

Such a great album

[@michael_harren]

+Cj Mitchell I was thinking the exact same thing. Gorgeous album.

[@Aramanth]

+Cj Mitchell Yes! You are so right... This echoes the same ghostly atmospheric soundscapes as Plight and Premonition!

[@cathytai]

I'm here because I just heard Bowie' Warszawa and realized Eno pretty much made that incredible track (no disrespect at all meant, I still love David Bowie for all he's done.) This effects me in a similar way - Now I have to buy this.

[@morebento]

You should get the early Eno albums, also his work with David Byrne on "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts", and Talking Heads albums.

[@ZOSIMAH]

Simply perfect and beautiful! Words are very inappropriate , because theres not that good word to express the feelings listening to Eno! Reminds me of Byzantine monks singing in c low rooted , they called it monophonic singing , in a manner of unity of a Mind, Soul and Body.....but you give your , authentic stamp on everything and always leave me , for my 40 years , 25 of listening to your music, absolutely speechless!

[@Hitecherous]

This is actually really good.

[@DareHare]

This experiential piece takes me on a journey... Sometimes on the sea and most of the time to space... Every time out of my body...

[@gregulatortron4052]

as a self-confessed Eno obsessive, hearing the news recently that this new album was due for release - i was afraid he may have 'lost' whatever he has had in the past - thankfully, i was wrong - 'The Ship' is a bloody gorgeous masterpiece. Thank you Brian - and sorry for doubting you in the first place :)

[@FlockOfHawks]

So far he only disappointed me with neroli

[@PAULLONDEN]

He disappointed me a lot with his post "Taking Tiger Mountain" vocals..... Brian is a master...but he's not perfect......he thinks he can do it *all* yet most of the time his vocals are a bit weak... While "Warm Jets" is totally brilliant...I go mainly for his stunning instrumental work. I find this "Ship" not very inspiring also.....loathe the Peter Chilvers vocodering.....and other talkies....

[@SillsandSmith]

Pure bliss! Can't wait to hear the full album!

[@FlipSideCT]

Bravo!! looking forward to this purchase and going for a ride, wherever this takes me.

[@ryang.5094]

Spoilers! You crash land in a desert..

[@Mechaos]

You really know how to express the aura that these places have a sense of infinity, where time has forgotten. I would love to listen to your commentary over the the background of this song and video and to gain a deeper appreciation for these places and how you perceive them.

[@caytiehogan5417]

wow takes me back to the seventies and makes me remember laying back on the porch blessed out watching the sky listening to Eno

[@shawnghostie]

Am i the only one who feel the clouds move and the black hole expands....?

[@Sighbot]

No

[@wildHelena1]

You are not alone.

[@spontina]

My girl La'shawna got a black hole too. It's all good and pink in the inside. Relaxing with this music.

[@fattylumpkin6443]

LOVE IT. Especially The "Wave After Wave" Part. It's Unusually Soothing.

[@user-ro9tj6rh2g]

It is so strange, the part between minutes 14 and 17, it looks like the words are in a mix of languages, and I can hear some words in my language. _...contra la set (against the thirst)_ _...les coses (the things)_ _...pot tocar (it can touch)_ _...contra el present (against the present)_ _...astellat (shattered)_ _...aquest calvari de somnis (this torment of dreams)_ _...com nedadors en un salt a la claredat (like swimmers in a jump to clarity)_

[@Theocomicman]

I also heard this, interesting...

[@zzzaaayyynnn]

Another new twist for Master Eno: sound poems with "language" texts embedded twined with richly emotional ambient...even philosophical.

[@TitusKrakenDesigns]

The Ship was from the willing land The waves about it roll And as aglow by powder band We lift, we loot, we haul The tie is still The sky is young Roll on towards the goal And we are at the undescribed To take a new control For word a lure a prayful being The bad the cast away My never did the greater band My life with you is dead So soothe the stones that dealt the tie The piper plays the wind But we are at the undefined Reeking of the wing When pray with time at memory day And pray the tie told The sail is down the wind is gone The sky is blessed with growth The slave to host a pistody Illusion of control And we are as the unrefined The wake about to roll (Background female voice talking) Can I take the freedom and forget you How can it, form contractions Don't talk that I'm frightened Do I know exactly my husband That I Love You. We miss you, after that Go get brethren (grab her then) I still act Intermixed by different men voices interjecting words Go about it, A song Another ghost, by himself, I like that you are too polite Cup The thing Hello -No wait!- Times Come back A man Chance In twos A timer The sand Imp Glass Funny Way Stretched Light up The vibration Awe That pearly What a waste Of help As Wave After Wave After Wave After Wave After Wave After Wave After Wave After Wave After Wave

[@adamblake9013]

TitusPazmany Most of these lyrics are wrong !

[@LuminousMusicStudios-Glasgow]

the world needs more examples of sonic mastery such as this. Beautiful. Thanks Mr. Eno . . . wave after wave of enchantment.

[@joedohn9727]

Check out R. Carlos Nakai,Deuter, Iannis Xenakis, John Cage, Fennesz, Merzbow

[@YellowChoklit]

ahhahaah merzbow hahahahahahahaha

[@stephenlindow1558]

I adore the last eight minutes or so; the crackling echoing electric will o' wisps.

[@markmower6507]

I MUST HAVE MORE! Reminds me of the time I was in the hospital and they said what is your pain level and I said 8,when I really only felt like a 4.

[@refuge6]

Oh how I enjoy that ineffable Eno factor. What a journey.

[@KUPHSER]

I did dmt again on the weekend, and I had this song on for my trip. Truly amazing experience

[@Juribaden]

Eno is love, Eno is life

[@alanmswin]

Got my ticket for this October in Berlin, can't wait

[@skipmendler]

Lyrics are here: www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Brian-Eno/The-Ship

[@Funkroza]

+Skip Mendler That chorus

[@phils7410]

+Skip Mendler Those lyrics are way off in some places, but they are a good start. Hopefully Eno will release the real lyrics with the album. Great song, though!

[@Reztilba]

+Skip Mendler merci !

[@jiffysquid9]

When the voice first cut in I thought WTF? I'm not too sure about this. But I very soon got hooked. Eno has done it again!

[@NolanKurtz]

Was not expecting those vocals.

[@raiyanriot]

Crying in ambient! :')

[@ZeranZeran]

I didn't know Brian Eno sang on any of his songs, that was unexpected tripped me out.

[@vrucewayne]

+ZeranZeran You might need to go back a few decades for that haha.

[@friesiamans1966]

+zeranzeran - vru patel is right - in the 70s he made several albums with a lot of vocals on them: "here come the warm jets", "taking tiger mountain by strategy", "another green world", "before and after science" are the ones i know... :-) edit: i just saw there is "brian eno - by the river" as a single track up here on youtube - one of my all time faves of his vocal songs - i even sang it to my daugher as a lullaby when she was small - she likes it so much that last year she asked me to write down the lyrics for her, she´s 13 now, haha... :-) greetings from germany

[@FlockOfHawks]

+friesiaman s He sang on Nerve Net and Wrong Way Up as well , that's mid 90s unless i'm mistaken

[@ejn1926]

From14:52 to 16:37 the lyrics are in catalan.

[@jessicaderosa9625]

hearing this at the Brian Eno experience at the museum, is like going to heaven

[@MrMoebiusStrip]

Eerily, eerily life is but a dream!

[@phantomleap]

Purchasing the album on Google Play. Track is amazing. Thanks for putting it up on YT, Warp!

[@SelfHealingGod]

He came back to haunt me now in my adulthood....

[@friesiamans1966]

+jog singh - same here, yes man... :-) cheers from germany...

[@SelfHealingGod]

Thanks ....yes it's hard to find such simple effective music for the mind these days.

[@friesiamans1966]

+jog singh - my pleasure - perhaps you try "loscil" - there are several albums up here, but i recommend to start with a live recording, i think it was boiler room in amsterdam(?) that i watched, in which you can see him actually turn the filter knobs ever so quietly - fascinating and very meditative...

[@friesiamans1966]

+jog singh - it just came to my mind, a while a go i discovered "michael sterns planetary unfolding", it´s very old, i think from the early 70s(?), but that doesn´t matter, it is of striking beauty and very serenely just floating on and on - i highly recommend...

[@SelfHealingGod]

Thanks my brother your are too kind to explain..I will check it out.

[@lisengel2498]

It is very intense - opening into very special sound spaces ... A very open free floating awareness

[@zitherbefree]

A masterpiece, it brings emotional reflection to a listener, I love it.

[@rjnuzzi1648]

Lovely... newly familiar... Eno

[@usuariodeyoigo8215]

Reaparece el mejor Brian Eno...

[@twosplit6938]

You make me happy.

[@davidbluth6496]

On every level he hits his mark... Bowie would of enjoyed this

[@jppmccrea]

or maybe even "would have"........:)

[@ZOSIMAH]

Major Thom , from his Blackstar .... another great artist that could give us more, but after last LP there was nothing else to say...and he new that well!

[@friesiamans1966]

+john mccrea - haha, i´m german, and i had a lot of conversation with several americans - i caught myself to think i was writing correcter english than those, but no, it´s just common to abbreviate certain things like that - well, i could of thoughta that before... :-) nerd greetings...

[@philmerlot9074]

@@friesiamans1966 No. Saying "could of" just makes one sound poorly educated.

[@friesiamans1966]

@@philmerlot9074 haha, you´re cute - humour is something different, i know, but thanks for caring... :-)

[@3SpeedBananaSeatMedia]

This is beautiful. I've never been on a ship before, but if ever did go on one, I would want it to be the Titanic. Thank you, Eno!

[@ryang.5094]

So you'd want to pick a ship you know crashed into an iceberg and die a horrible death in the middle of the ocean with a thousand other screaming people? Ha! Alright. Seems like a weird ship to pick..

[@cathytai]

LOL

[@888OXOMOXO888]

this young man certainly has some excellent recording skills and we look forward to hearing more from him in the future B|

[@denrikxxx]

+888OXOMOXO888 young man? He is 66 years old :)

[@888OXOMOXO888]

+denrikxxx yeah i know started listening to him when warm jets came out 1973.

[@denrikxxx]

888OXOMOXO888 wow, such an old fan. Were you buyng records or something?

[@888OXOMOXO888]

+denrikxxx vinyl yup. grew up in South Bay Area of Los Angeles, the beaches, so got my essential at Platterpuss and at 8th&PCH, which was variously Discount Records, Music+ and Licorice Pizza. long haired surfer kids smoking bombers and setting the babies on fire

[@denrikxxx]

888OXOMOXO888 interesting. Is that kinda music was popualr at that time or at least were people like it?

[@anthonyintexas]

Music For Oceans

[@fattylumpkin6443]

Music For Galaxies

[@nonoiseproduction8921]

Grandious musical journey with eerial and astral content. What I miss is abstract and complex sound desing in the background to feed detail structures of Imagination. Still a amazing Trip!

[@FreeYourMindinSC]

Another triumph from the Ambient Mr. Eno (did he write the lyrics or did Rick Holland write them)? Looking forward to the arrival of the whole CD in my mailbox!

[@boylador]

Unique...the guru of music.

[@richardfoulkesjnr8168]

Love Brian's singing,writin,producing ..Ambient 2 is really good. To use in massage...so much meditative alpha wave music is good to soothe the mind,relax the body.

[@pedroaguilera9255]

delicado y preciso, con mucha paz y reflexion, buen tema

[@plupotto]

it looks like "all tomorrow's parties" by Velvet underground , slowed and lightly retuned, but with the same sequence in the voice. The guy is seasoned but have not lost the memory, neither the good taste for the sounds: long life for him!!

[@3rdlairskate]

binaural recordings are the future of music. We'll eventually look back at regular stereo audio like we do at mono nowadays.

[@ZeranZeran]

+Hunter O'Brien I noticed that in Beyonce's new album, (or atleast, the video version of lemonade) each track has some really nice ambient music in between. I thought it was kind of neat. Never seen a main stream artist use it before.

[@friesiamans1966]

9 3 - incredible that you mention her - i once saw almost a whole live performance of her by chance - i had to wait for my woman, and i was in a large electro shop where they had an extra room with a huge tv and a fat stereo in it with beonce on - so i sat down and watched - her music is not my cup of tea, but her singing and the performance, the musicians, the whole damn thing was simply great - i have no other words: she is a hard working show woman and a fantastic singer! that´s why i´m interested in the album you mentioned, "lemonade" you said? ...says an old brian eno fan (since the days of taking tiger mountain), haha... :-) cheers from germany edit: btw. genesis "the lamb lies down on broadway" is a sort of rock opera, and it had little instrumental pieces in between the vocal songs - i remember well, because i liked them very much - that album is highly recommended... next edit: could you possibly send me a link?

[@GamerCall]

I would love an instrumental version of this.

[@bolderiks]

Why bother if you are born deaf.

[@CyborgSolar]

wtf man

[@GamerCall]

Well, it's kinda conflicted. This could make a great addition to Eno's ambient canon, but the vocals have an intrusive effect. It's a shame, but I'm sure an instrumental version'll be available at some point or another.

[@someonelse9]

don't like the vocals one bit.

[@wanmomusic]

hahahahahahah you just craked me up brooooo

[@adrianstrickland7600]

thank you

[@ahmetcangokceer]

TRY to hit that low C. So much fun.

[@lacate_oficial]

Susurros 5:44 Voces 5:55 Robot 9:12 Voz mujer 15:14 y 15:27 Recuerdo 16:46 Campana 9:07 Radio 9:36 Maquina funcionando 10:21 Voces en la superficie 11:03

[@MiqueCapel]

love it

[@vitovitos3405]

Grande genio delle sonorità introspettive assieme a Battiato è stato uno dei pionieri del sint

[@burningrabbitacres8330]

thank you Brian...

[@kevinwilkinson4936]

very clever track .hope the whole album is like this

[@jillyvioncy42]

Enjoyable!

[@rockfranzbeat]

amazing

[@DrRestezi]

Brian Eno is the Einstien of music.

[@astroconnectlive1719]

Superb

[@dojaneko179]

I love this so much

[@mickrobertbuckingham3590]

I wish supposed old guard fans of Eno would put their brains in gear before typing a sentence, instead of making up some pretentious soliloquy to who they are told by hipster media is a master. Who cares what he uses? The only important thing is it sounds good.

[@fourorthree2]

eerie similarity with Mike Patton - "I Come" from Jerry Hunt's SONG DRAPES

[@eduardosandoval5348]

Vibración 🙌🏼

[@sussanfarahani1261]

Brilliant, amazing

[@JulithaRyan]

Just lovely sir x

[@brainsaladsurgery6984]

Every time I listen Lord. Eno, I want to go back to LSD again.

[@manmaas]

Bloody hell! One to be stoned on as I am now!!!

[@orangesai108]

минуты свежей музыки в жанре эмбиент - электроники, основанный на модуляциях звукового тембра: приятной и атмосферной. Пластинка подойдет как для прогулки по пустому зимнему парку, так и для ожидания посадки на рейс в переполненном зале аэропорта.

[@jasontheworldisyours]

Shoutout to Pitchfork for bringing me here @ColoredSpaces

[@PLUS09386]

beautiful circle sky movie.

[@RedRose4711]

Fabulous!

[@BreconWalsh]

ENO IS ONE

[@EnosEverything]

+Brecon Walsh ..NO E isn't - he's infinite.

[@DanielDavissynthman]

+Brecon Walsh Brian Eno - BRAIN ONE

[@EnosEverything]

+Daniel Davis If he was a Scot he'd be ONE BAIRN !!

[@TvdR73]

+EnosEverything I'm trying to think of a smart anagram to go with his full name, but I'm drawing a blank. Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno. EDIT: Fed it into an anagram maker: Janitors Bother Preen Egg Disposable Talent Ale Eel

[@EnosEverything]

+Thomas van den Reydt .... It's very nearly a NO BRAIN-Er !!!.

[@frankschrodinger1424]

Music for Stoners. Seriously though this is great...I love the production.

[@accorsidiego3]

...This is ENO Gentlemen!

[@cristian.ilie.018]

HHmm...A pretty unusual Eno ere...If Eno can ever be considered "just your usual artist" which he is not, of course.... Definitely a grower !!!

[@doncrouch2964]

Where would we be without Eno, and where would Eno be without water?? ;-)

[@lippy123445]

Lovely

[@BlueBoy0]

numenera - the tumult

[@econogate]

C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), the Anglican lay theologian and novelist, proposed that the great distances separating intelligent life in the Universe are a form of divine quarantine: "The distances prevent the spiritual infection of a fallen species from spreading." If there is a Galactic club of aliens, perhaps it would be closer to the center of our Galaxy where the stars are more tightly packed, and the mean distance between stars is only one light-year instead of nine light-years as in our region of the Galaxy. Our fastest spaceships can travel about one six-thousandth the speed of light. Our fastest ships would require 25,000 years to reach Proxima Centauri, the closest star. Radio messages would take decades to reach our neighbors and thousands of years to cross the Galaxy. All this talk of comic loneliness, while humans live in a galaxy of hundreds of billions of stars, brings back haunting memories of Austrian poet Karl Kraus (1874-1936) who wrote, "One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well." I am also reminded of the haunting lines from "Velvet Green," by the eighteenth-century British writer Jethro Tull: We'll dream as lovers under the stars: Of civilizations raging afar. And the ragged dawn breaks on your battle scars As you walk home cold and alone upon Velvet Green.

[@RaifLisko]

"Guy who has no science background and writes kids books tries to talk about the logistics of interstellar travel" Yeah, its a no from me dawg

[@rajavlitra]

The man who made the windows 95 sound is still making jams? I'm surprised tbh

[@secretmantra]

+sea.drnkr [7₄] Be less surprised and more curious.

[@qui1004]

beauty..

[@Reztilba]

il n'y a pas que les britanniques qui reconnaissent le talent de Brian eno…

[@Reztilba]

+Killianne Bebop-Tango personne, j'attendais juste une réaction, la votre par exemple !

[@arabimmigrationnews]

+fourmirouge bein c sur ca

[@AkisPerdikis]

+fourmirouge Peut-etre David Sylvian? Robert Wyatt? John Cale?

[@FlockOfHawks]

Beaucoup des gents qui parlent en anglais ici sont pas du tout de britannie , ma chère . Elementary english is simply the simplest language in the world . Wenn ich auf deutsch kommentieren würde , würde es kaum jemand verstehen . Capisce ? :) j'aime ce(tte) 'thread' , au revoir et bon jour , et merci

[@friesiamans1966]

+ flock - doch, ich verstehe es, aber ich kann kaum francais - dafür habe ich aber eno auch schon in den 70ern entdeckt, war eine witzige geschichte... :-)

[@morganishere123]

Kinda sounds like a really well produced mighty boosh track

[@FlockOfHawks]

Mah wahf has a mahtee boosh but it never sounds lahk dis , alas

[@MsJosper]

Fantástico!!!

[@gfxxx1405]

La musica dell'anima

[@lenoil35]

Il faut expérimenter l'installation multi canal, c'est époustouflant !

[@fattylumpkin6443]

I Wonder What The 100 Who Disliked It Thought And Heard. The Vocals And Organ-Like Harmonies Kinda Creep Me Out, But The Whole Far Futuristic Theme Of A Ship 700 Cubic Miles Across Taking The Entire Human Race On A Journey To Earth II, Or Something Like That Is Pretty Cool.

[@kevinsanchotanca6903]

4:41 sonido teléfono 12:29 sonido radar 19:56 madera rechinando

[@redvillaingaming1172]

I know nothing about this guy. Can anyone give me some insight on who he is please? I like this song a lot.

[@stevecarter8810]

lmgtfy.com/?q=brian+eno

[@friesiamans1966]

+ steve - haha, way cool... :-)

[@friesiamans1966]

+ red villain - here is a series of videos with interviews about him kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3yyepR3o9eKf7s from there you can go on - he made incredibly many completely different things, so it´s not possible to write in one reply who he is - fascinating for sure, and absolutely worth checking him closer - one big thing about him: he invented ambient music, the music itself and the term "ambient music" as well... "music for airports" is the first official ambient record ever...

[@slowgenius3]

I have no desire to shame a man who has made so very much beautiful music during his life, but when it comes to his vocals (including those on this album) he sometimes has a way of hitting notes that is reminiscent of hitting a target with a shotgun.

[@FraterSoddi]

Magnificent - there are subtle layers to this that I can't wait to hear when I get the CD (BUY THE CD!!) Is that Laurie Anderson or his daughter Darla doing the vocals towrds the end?