Drums Between the Bells is a collaboration album by Brian Eno

Brian Eno

Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...

 and poet Rick Holland. It was released on 4 July 2011 on Warp Records

Warp Records

Warp, commonly referred to as Warp Records, is a pioneering independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989, notable for discovering some of the more enduring artists in electronic music....

 in CD, double CD 'hardback', double vinyl and download editions. "Glitch" was released in advance of the album, through Eno's mailing list in April 2011.

Background

Brian Eno met Rick Holland in the late 1990s, through the collaborative 'Map-Making' project. After creating their first music together in 2003, they met infrequently to work on new compositions. Following the release of Eno's Small Craft on a Milk Sea

Small Craft on a Milk Sea

Small Craft on a Milk Sea is a 2010 album by British musician and record producer Brian Eno. The album—his debut with Warp—was released in Japan on 19 October 2010, in the United States on 2 November, and the United Kingdom on 15 November...

in 2010, the pair decided to complete their project. Drums Between the Bells is the result of their meetings (although their 2003 work does not appear on this album).

Critical reception

Track listing

All compositions by Brian Eno

Brian Eno

Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...

, with poems written by Rick Holland.
Disc one

1. "Bless This Space"
2. "Glitch"
3. "Dreambirds"
4. "Pour It Out"
5. "Seedpods"
6. "The Real"
7. "The Airman"
8. "Fierce Aisles of Light"
9. "As If Your Eyes Were Partly Closed As If You Honed the Swirl Within Them and Offered Me the World"
10. "A Title"
11. "Sounds Alien"
12. "Dow"
13. "Instant Gold" (iTunes Store bonus track)
14. "Multimedia"
15. "In the Future" (Japan CD bonus track)
16. "Cloud 4"
17. "Silence"
18. "Breath of Crows"

Disc two (Instrumentals)

1. "Seeded"
2. "Pour"
3. "Bird Dreaming"
4. "Itch"
5. "Fiercer Aisles"
6. "Real"
7. "Spaced"
8. "Dense Air"
9. "Another Title"
10. "Nikkei"
11. "Cloud 5"
12. "Alienated"
13. "As If Your Eyes"
14. "Monomedia"
15. "Crows"

Personnel

As well as Eno and Holland, the album features the voices of Grazyna Goworek, Caroline Wildi, Laura Spagnuolo, Elisha Mudly Aylie Cooke, Nick Robertson, and Anastasia Afonina.

External links

• Drums Between the Bells at Warp Records