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Brian Eno with Jon Hopkins & Leo Abrahams - Small Craft On A Milk Sea (2010) [Official Digital Download]

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Brian Eno with Jon Hopkins & Leo Abrahams - Small Craft On A Milk Sea (2010) [Official Digital Download]

Brian Eno with Jon Hopkins & Leo Abrahams - Small Craft On A Milk Sea (2010)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time - 48:38 minutes | 505 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

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. –Brian Eno

Brian Eno's best recordings are timeless. Even his great recordings are practically timeless. His recordings after the '80s, however, gradually acquired a different description: dated. Released in 1992, Nerve Net attempted to cross both his ambient and pop records of the '70s with faddish techno, while The Drop invoked his ambient period to a sterilizing effect. (Even ambient records need some ambience.) His work of the 2000s was heavily collaborational, fortunately showing him to be still curious about the varieties of musical expression – beyond what he's been able to display while producing for U2 and Coldplay. Small Craft on a Milk Sea regains the timeless, ageless feel of his best ambient work. It stands as his first record for Warp, a label that has long worshiped at the altar of headphone electronica, although much of this album is the fruit of sessions originally recorded (but declined) for the Lovely Bones soundtrack; some of it was written and recorded by Eno and frequent collaborator Leo Abrahams while they were touring Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, Eno's 2008 pop album with David Byrne. Warp has been known for quality control for over 20 years, and this one is no different – it's the best Eno record in 20 years (although that's not saying much). The opener, "Emerald and Lime," is a piece of bright ambience – as close to a Starbucks soundtrack as a stereotypical Eno work can get. The title track has the dark textures of the later ambient works (Ambient 4: On Land), while the middle section has nods to contemporary electronic music – "Flint March" is pummeling, percussive techno, and the next track, "Horse," also indulges – then it's back to opaque, spacious ambience with "Calcium Needles" and "Emerald and Stone." Here too, some tracks have the earthy bass of Ambient 4: On Land, others the formless but inviting void of Discreet Music, still others the heart-stopping piano isolationism of the original Ambient 1: Music for Airports. Eno may be trading on his earlier developments in ambience to a small degree, but Small Craft on a Milk Sea is a good and proper balance of curiosity and expression.

Tracklist:

01 - Emerald & Lime
02 - Complex Heaven
03 - Small Craft on a Milk Sea
04 - Flint March
05 - Horse
06 - Two Forms of Anger
07 - Bone Jump
08 - Dust Shuffle
09 - Paleosonic
10 - Slow Ice Old Moon
11 - Lesser Heaven
12 - Calcium Needles
13 - Emerald & Stone
14 - Written Forgotten
15 - Late Anthropocene 2

Analyzed: Brian Eno / Small Craft on a Milk Sea
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR11 -3.15 dB -17.52 dB 3:00 01-Emerald & Lime
DR9 -3.12 dB -15.58 dB 3:04 02-Complex Heaven
DR9 -3.13 dB -15.20 dB 1:47 03-Small Craft on a Milk Sea
DR9 0.00 dB -10.83 dB 1:53 04-Flint March
DR6 0.00 dB -9.07 dB 3:00 05-Horse
DR7 0.00 dB -9.61 dB 3:12 06-Two Forms of Anger
DR8 -0.64 dB -12.46 dB 2:20 07-Bone Jump
DR8 0.00 dB -10.24 dB 1:53 08-Dust Shuffle
DR7 -0.23 dB -9.60 dB 4:24 09-Paleosonic
DR9 -2.64 dB -14.36 dB 3:25 10-Slow Ice Old Moon
DR10 -0.62 dB -13.36 dB 3:18 11-Lesser Heaven
DR9 -0.14 dB -13.21 dB 3:23 12-Calcium Needles
DR12 -2.76 dB -20.02 dB 2:12 13-Emerald & Stone
DR7 -0.14 dB -8.43 dB 3:53 14-Written Forgotten
DR11 -0.60 dB -16.41 dB 7:54 15-Late Anthropocene 2
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Number of tracks: 15
Official DR value: DR9

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 1371 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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