Op vrijdag 29 april verschijnt The Ship, het nieuwe album van de Engelse muzikale pionier Brian Eno. The Ship is Eno’s eerste solo album sinds LUX uit 2012 en verschijnt wederom via het vooruitstrevende Warp label. Het album is het resultaat van Eno’s experimenten met driedimensionale opnametechnieken en laat zich beluisteren als een muzikale novelle met traditionele pop hoofdstukken waarin minimalistische ambient, fysieke elektronica, wereldlijke beschouwingen en technische innovaties bijeenkomen.
Brian Eno over het thema van zijn album:
“On a musical level, I wanted to make a record of songs that didn't rely on the normal underpinnings of rhythmic structure and chord progressions but which allowed voices to exist in their own space and time, like events in a landscape. I wanted to place sonic events in a free, open space. One of the starting points was my fascination with the First World War, that trans-cultural madness that arose out of a clash of hubris between empires. It followed immediately after the sinking of the Titanic, which to me is its analogue. The Titanic was the Unsinkable Ship, the apex of human technical power, set to be Man's greatest triumph over nature. The First World War was the war of materiel, 'over by Christmas', set to be the triumph of Will and Steel over humanity. The catastrophic failure of each set the stage for a century of dramatic experiments with the relationships between humans and the worlds they make for themselves. I was thinking of those vast dun Belgian fields where the First World War was agonisingly ground out; and the vast deep ocean where the Titanic sank; and how little difference all that human hope and disappointment made to it.”
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“Humankind seems to teeter between hubris and paranoia: the hubris of our ever-growing power contrasts with the paranoia that we're permanently and increasingly under threat. At the zenith we realize we have to come down again. We know that we have more than we deserve or can defend, so we become nervous. Somebody, something is going to take it all from us: that is the dread of the wealthy. Paranoia leads to defensiveness, and we all end up in the trenches facing each other across the mud.” - Brian Eno
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