Brian Eno and the words of Rick Holland
Brian Eno's new album, Drums between the bells , his second on Warp , came out last month. In fact, it's a collaboration with poet Rick Holland . I've just heard a few tracks from it on a sampler, but one tune in particular has really stuck with me. It's a beautiful slice of drifting guitar and synth kosmische, with a straight-faced female spoken word monologue, describing the view, in a sort of impressionistic fashion, from the top of a skyscraper in New York - " from the top of this high rise, people as small as the pigment in your eyes ." It's surprisingly romantic given the delivery, with a dizzy, swooning quality to the arrangement. Brian Eno - pour it out (taken from Drums Between The Bells) by Warp Records I don't know who's responsible for the vocal but the delivery reminds me a lot of Berit Immig from Berlin-based band Omo . They released one of my favourite albums of the last few years in 2009, The white album on LoAF . Many o...