Drums Between Bells

Ambient pioneer, hit producer, multi-media artist & technological innovator Brian Eno started his career as a founding member of glam rockers Roxy Music, before leaving the band in 1973 to pursue a pioneering & highly successful solo career, including collaborations with David Byrne, Robert Fripp & Harold Budd. As a producer, credits include work with Depeche Mode, David Bowie, Coldplay, Paul Simon, Grace Jones as well as seven albums for U2.

Eno first came across the work of Rick Holland in the late 90s during the Map-Making project; a series of collaborative works between students of the Royal College, the Guildhall School of Music, the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Music, the National Youth Orchestra and the English National Ballet, among others.

In 2003, Brian and Rick made their first music together (the resulting work does not appear on this album). In the intervening time since that initial session they have met infrequently to work on new compositions.

In early 2011, following the release of 'Small Craft on a Milk Sea' (Brian's debut album for Warp Records), the pair resolved to finish the project. 'Drums Between the Bells' is the result - featuring the voices of Eno, Grazyna Goworek, Caroline Wildi, Laura Spagnuolo, Elisha Mudly Aylie Cooke, Holland, Nick Robertson, and Anastasia Afonina.

The album has received acclaim from overseas, with Stool Pigeon describing it as "The best LP the ambient pioneer has been involved with since the mid-eighties. Imagine Boards of Canada's 'Music Has The Right To Children' as an actual soundtrack to a documentary."