Sing Along With Brian Eno

"I believe in singing together," says Brian Eno, widely regarded as the intellectual icon of modern western music. Join him as he humorously conducts a public morning choir with songs and spirituals of his own choice.
Brian Eno has a passionate interest in a cappella singing, he reveals in this video, recorded at a public group singing one winter morning in Copenhagen. Each Tuesday, Eno tells the audience, he runs his own a cappella choir consisting of ordinary people like a lawyer, a boxer, professionals and one musician besides Eno himself.
Eno has said that “when you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a cappella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.” Learn more about Eno’s singing passion: www.npr.org/templates/story/st...
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The songs sung by Brian Eno together with the people in this choir includes ‘Cotton Fields’, ‘I'll Fly Away’, ‘Can't Help Falling in Love’, ‘I Gave My Love a Cherry’, ‘Early One Morning’, ‘Calling My Children Home’.
Brian Eno (b. 1948) is a musician, composer, record producer, singer, writer, and visual artist. Eno's work is a pioneering exploration of music and art, not least presented in ground-breaking albums together with David Bowie, David Byrne and U2. Brian Eno is the inventor of ambient music, where he wanted the music to be part of the listener's surroundings, eliminating the idea of music as the result of the artist's ego. Some of Brian Eno's most famous albums include 'Discreet Music' (1975), 'Ambient 1: Music for Airports' (1978) and 'Music for Films' (1978).
Brian Eno was recorded leading the morning choir at the Copenhagen Main Library, Denmark, 16 November, 2016, arranged by Lars Kjelfred.
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Piano: Christian Steen Noringriis
Cameras: Klaus Elmer & Rasmus Quistgaard
Edited by Klaus Elmer
Produced by Christian Lund
Supported by Nordea-fonden
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[@hayleyanna2625]

Not only is Brian a bloody brilliant artist/musician but he is also extremely humble with it. This is great.

[@davidcarney1949]

Brian eno is a musical genius

[@NoelAndersonhere]

He's welcome to lead singing at my church anytime.

[@SRDhain]

Fascinating. I know he can sing (He used to do more on his earlier albums) , but this is something different. Thank you for sharing.

[@garylee6372]

So strange yet so sublime. Hearing “Early One Morning” was surreal, especially, as when I was a very little kid - back in the mid-1960s, its melody was the theme song for a kids’ show on TV called The Friendly Giant - I hadn’t heard that tune in well over 50 years and never knew its name, so hearing this was a very healing experience. Thank you so much, Brian.

[@marycatherine5439]

Reminds me when i was a young girl learning to sing from my music teacher and how important the words are when you learn to sing and the eloquence of music; honored to perform before an audience for the song...my first song was Little Town of Bethlehem..five years old..and from there my father introduced me to Opera...thank God for music...I love music by Brian Eno and Steven Halpren and many other musician and my background in Visual Communications created a structure for implementing music through relaxation; presenting my idea to a Hospital in Chicago and music and healing of the human being is amazing.

[@vOCesUGa1]

Im not sure what to say. Owning most of his music on tape, CD, DVD, Record. Tons of music hes made. But never thought i would being hearing this like i was in church, and Copenhagen even.

[@WilsonMar1]

You know that, back in the day, Brian Eno composed for Microsoft the Windows 95 startup and other sounds.

[@erflingnot]

Wilson Mar Absolutely and still some of my favorite sounds! 😋 I love sound ambient sound grungy sound rude sound beautiful sounds!

[@jevinday]

This is so wonderful!

[@chrissmith8526]

I love this have done since I found it once or so every month or two I play it full blast and join in

[@n4bjb]

I was so scared to hear one of my progressive artists perform some standards, but damn... I played/hosted some folk jams along my way so far...

[@Jerome-Zone]

Lovely! Recorded on my birthday 🤗

[@clownprince0801]

This is amazing.

[@The26sugar]

I love Brian Eno. I love his song 'Under'

[@bladevengeance3067]

he is my uncle

[@The26sugar]

BlaDe Vengeance He's your uncle? :) Cool

[@barrycoad2080]

Thank You

[@stevenauth1827]

Thank you.

[@_chary990]

man fantastic, singing along is pretty neat

[@ErickMcNerney]

The irony is that I hear God in his music, like "An Ending." There is most certainly a God.

[@akaGiNX]

Yeah me to bruv. For me it's sounds like entrance music to heaven.

[@akaGiNX]

@Jay James good point bruv.

[@TbsDltn]

..An Ending is a very heavenly atmospheric piece by sir eno!!

[@jessica5497]

well.. at least he doesnt disrespect anyones belive sistem, you can listen and feel what you want...God, Alá, the universe...

[@pigsbishop99]

Expect the unexpected with ENO.

[@TheIronicTea]

Fantastic! When was this filmed?

[@NickRowsell]

Brian’s a really good bloke ...

[@robertmccrudden728]

wow,xxxxxx

[@raijin1991]

Hardly "dark ambient music" that i was looking for

[@BurningR]

hahaha

[@betterthantelly2993]

Hare Krishna

[@MonsterCastleInteractiveRadio]

I miss his feathers and makeup

[@dennismason3740]

Brian Eno, imagineer supreme, invents "white people singing gospel and other selected songs kind of like church singing" and rumor has it that he has invented a new collective gathering event - he calls it "the drum circle that includes women". Brilliant! Seriously I have loved this guy since Bush of Ghosts was recorded.

[@Sharperthanu1]

I'd think Eno is singing about HIS children but as far as I know all of his kids live in the U.K. an area smaller than JUST ONE Canadian province.

[@da-p6814]

Travelling takes much longer in the UK than the same distance in north America due to the layout of the roads

[@scottjones01230]

I really would love one of those trench coats....

[@bladevengeance3067]

he is my uncle lol ahah

[@juliagomez6915]

Well tell your uncle he is awesome

[@moricwilson]

Third?

[@Lorkoification]

Does he like wine ?? Im a musician myself and make wine ! Hello from Croatia! :)

[@bladevengeance3067]

@@juliagomez6915 haha i will. sorry for late replies i havent been on this account in ages

[@jessica5497]

Lucky you mate. Roger is your familiar as well? Because that would be a double "lucky you "lol

[@mikegerrish3459]

3rd stanza, different from the 1st

[@letmegoletmego]

It's quite hard for us bald middle aged middle class men to ignore slavery.

[@jessica5497]

Wtf are you talking about

[@kirstinetermansen2213]

????

[@catherinehaleyepstein2813]

The Elvis song he references as originally as "German" is absolutely not derived from anything teutonic. It's Elvis, and the melody is based on a French song Music by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini (1741-1816) Lyrics by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755-1794) "Plaisir d'amour". And the fact that he calls something a "Pop American crap song" then sings all music that has major American relevance including African American history - quite lame, Brian Eno - hmmmmm. You silly maiden - not so fresh as the rose garden are you? Keep singing about those maids singing in the valley.

[@tl8319]

Totally inappropriate. A rich white atheist from England appropriating American black spirituals. Haha, ok I really don't care about that PC baloney, Eno just isn't good at them. It's like an old 8 bit computer playing from a hymnal, but without the charm or soul that a computer would bring.

[@TheBigMclargehuge]

Do me a favor and don't be a hypocrite. Only utilize music, art, and food that was created by people in your race and in your country. If you aren't Mexican, don't have tacos. If you aren't Italian, don't look at the Mona Lisa. Hell, if you aren't Polish don't go 5 feet from a Pierogie. Or that's "Cultural appropriation."

[@djsomar8164]

Angry why he doesn't believe in the white-bearded old man who is just another illusion of religious systems?

[@Sharperthanu1]

Actually it IS appropriate when you consider that most of Eno's own songs are nonsense songs.I stopped taking Enos' lyrics seriously a long time ago

[@Sharperthanu1]

@@djsomar8164 Please Google:PROFESSOR ANDREW TRUSCOTT

[@bigjohndavid1]

Despite having produced some great work over the years, Eno all too often turns out to be dull and boring, failing to quite deliver. This singsong thing is awful to my ears.

[@bladevengeance3067]

my acc name is marcus norman-taylor look up anthea norman-taylor. she is my aunt and she married brian i will even comment on this with my real name account

[@marcusnorman-taylor148]

see i am called norman-taylor

[@empirestatelvr3694]

Marcus Norman-Taylor can u get his autograph for me? haha

[@BeyondSideshow]

John David This singalong may not have been meant for your entertainment but for the enjoyment of the participants.

[@StormOneUK]

Anthea also his manager if I recall correctly :) Don't worry about people sharing sometimes abrupt opinions like this on the internet, your uncle isn't boring he has many sides to his personality, but people will not hesitate to put opinions forward on the internet and can be rude because it's impersonal - I assure your uncle isn't bothered after many years in the public eye! BTW is jazz musician Jonathan Eno related? He's someone my company worked with, didn't like to ask, but curious. Listen to your uncle, he's intelligent and creative you can learn a lot frm him

[@leonakita]

WTF is this? Eno singing about cotton fields ?????? How on earth did he get involved with this? This is just awful! 3:24 - 3:30 is the best bit, but it is all so otherworldly and despite my recognition of his interest in gospel and spirituals in his compositions....this is just off the frickin wall!

[@Newton14alan]

You know, I love Brian Eno, but this was about the last thing that I thought I would ever come across while jumping around from one Eno video to the next. I think the word, "Bizarre" is a justifiable adjective. No way would I have sat through this demonstration had it been anyone else...And this is the guy who produced "Remain In Light"! I suppose One could argue that, if nothing else, this video proves that Brian Eno is a well-rounded individual. I hope that he continues to make music 'til he has to, "...fly away".

[@lelandbobpalmer]

This happened because Brian Eno, Laurie Anderson and Ebe Oke were recording together in Copenhagen and live streaming the process on the main public library and by the end of the week they would do a talk and present the recording that they had done, on the library. So, every Wednesday morning there is this singing at the library and I guess Brian Eno, being in Copenhagen at the time, agreed to participate because he likes collective singing. Last week David Byrne was here as well. I think we are lucky here in Copenhagen, to have people like this stopping by at our library :-) This is the talk they did: kzbin.info/www/bejne/garSYoV9jpd2obM

[@jevinday]

I could think of other words besides 'awful' to describe this

[@Sharperthanu1]

This was likely inspired by Eno's singing in American gospel quiors in the past