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Drums Between the Bells
Electronic · 2011 · 17 tracks · 52m

Drums Between the Bells

Brian Eno

A collaborative experiment where Rick Holland's abstract poetry meets Eno's clinical, rhythmic soundscapes. Spoken word transformed into a textural instrument.

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It's like an AI trying to understand human poetry through a series of beautiful, glitchy filters.

An intellectual and detached exploration of language suspended in a cold, digital void.

Drums Between the Bells · vs · Brian Eno
Spoken Word+3.2σ

The vocals lean far further into spoken word than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 17 Tracks · 52m
01
Bless This Space
3:47
02
Glitch
2:57
03
Dreambirds
2:25
04
Pour It Out
3:37
05
Seedpods
2:49
06
The Real
6:55
07
The Airman
3:13
08
Fierce Aisles of Light
2:38
09
As If Your Eyes Were Partly Closed as If You Honed the Swirl Within Them and Offered Me the World
1:38
10
A Title
3:51
11
Sounds Alien
2:53
12
Dow
2:41
13
Multimedia
1:57
14
In the Future
2:11
15
Cloud 4
1:43
16
Silence
0:58
17
Breath of Crows
6:46
Moments Worth Waiting For
The jarring, rhythmic glitching on track 3 that mimics a digital heartbeat under Rick Holland's verse.
The way the voice on 'Bless This Space' feels suspended in a vast, echoing chamber of synthetic light.
The sprawling, nearly seven-minute drift of 'The Real' where the music almost swallows the narration entirely.
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