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The Ship (album)

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Released
  
29 April 2016

The Ship (2016)
  
Reflection (2017)

Release date
  
29 April 2016

Genre
  
Ambient music

Length
  
47:30

Artist
  
Brian Eno

Label
  
Beat Records

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Producer
  
Brian Eno, Peter Chilvers

Similar
  
Brian Eno albums, Ambient music albums

Brian eno the ship


The Ship is the twenty-fifth solo studio album by English musician Brian Eno, released on 29 April 2016 on Warp Records. It was announced on Eno's website on 24 February 2016. The album is Eno's first solo album to contain vocals since 2005's Another Day on Earth. The Ship debuted at number 28 on the UK Albums Chart and became Eno's highest-charting album since My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. The album received critical acclaim.

Contents

Background

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?".

Track listing

All tracks written by Brian Eno, except "Fickle Sun (iii) I'm Set Free" written and composed by Eno and Lou Reed.

  • "Fickle Sun (III) I'm Set Free" is a cover of the Velvet Underground's "I'm Set Free", from their third studio album The Velvet Underground.
  • Personnel

    Credits are adapted from The Ship liner notes.

  • Brian Eno – producer, recording
  • Peter Chilvers – co-producer, recording, programming, keyboards, vocoder
  • Leo Abrahams – guitar (track 4)
  • Jon Hopkins – keyboards (track 4)
  • Nell Catchpole – violin, viola (track 4)
  • Nuria Homs – voice (track 1)
  • Members of the Elgin Marvels – voice (track 1)
  • Peter Serafinowicz – voice (track 3)
  • Songs

    1The Ship21:19
    2Fickle Sun (i)18:04
    3Fickle Sun (ii) The Hour is Thin2:50

    References

    The Ship (album) Wikipedia