Brian Eno will release The Ship on April 29th via Warp Records. This is his first solo LP since 2012’s Grammy-nominated offering LUX. Today we listen to the album’s title track, the cinematic, 21-minute opener. Eno explains that it began as an “ambient work intended for a multi-channel sound installation in Stockholm,” but that it became something different when the musician realized he could sing a low C–the root note of the piece.
Explaining that it’s one of “the few fringe benefits” of getting older he adds that the inclusion of his vocals, and other disembodied voices, took the track in an entirely new direction while morphing it 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.”
UPDATE (4/1/16): Today Brian Eno made “The Ship” available via YouTube:
https://youtu.be/pn1riJSHhkY
