SMALL CRAFT ON A MILK SEA by BRIAN ENO
CD Version
Tracks
- Emerald and Lime
- Complex Heaven
- Small Craft on a Milk Sea
- Flint March
- Horse
- 2 Forms of Anger
- Bone Jump
- Dust Shuffle
- Paleosonic
- Slow Ice, Old Moon
- Lesser Heaven
- Calcium Needles
- Emerald and Stone
- Written, Forgotten
- Late Anthropocene
Description
The work in this collection is a result of an occasional collaboration between myself, Leo Abrahams and Jon Hopkins. The two of them are gifted young player/composers whose work, like mine, is intimately connected to the possibilities and freedoms of electronic music. Over the last few years we've worked together several times, enjoying exploring the huge new sonic territories now available to musicians. Mostly the pieces on this album resulted not from 'composition' in the classical sense, but from improvisation. The improvisations are not attempts to end up with a song, but rather with a landscape, a feeling of a place and perhaps the suggestion of an event. In a sense they deliberately lack 'personality': there is no singer, no narrator, no guide as to what you ought to be feeling. If these pieces had been used in films, the film would complete the picture. As they stand, they are the mirror-image of silent movies - sound-only movies.
I am especially pleased to be releasing this new material on Warp, for a long time one of the truly innovative labels. I am pleased to be in the company of many artists whose work I've followed and admired over the years. I look forward to a rewarding relationship."
Brian Eno (September, 2010)
