Performed by Gavin Bryars Ensemble. Made at the Atomic Ab.sorption Laborato… Read Full Bio ↴Performed by Gavin Bryars Ensemble. Made at the Atomic Ab.sorption Laboratory, Clissolog Studio ℗ 1994

(no remix credit, on promo 12" only mentioned: "Aphex Twin", "Raising The Titanic Big Drum Mix", "From the album "The Sinking Of The Titanic" by Gavin Bryars"; on CDS mentioned "The Aphex Twin Mixes"/"Selections remixed" that includes Edit & Mix, but not includes Big Drum Mix)

Raising the Titanic
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Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet Jesus' blood never failed me yet, never failed me yet. Jesus…

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01Time to Find Me (AFX Fast mix)7:34

02Raising the Titanic (Big Drum mix)8:42

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03Journey (Aphex Twin Care mix)

04Triachus (Aphex Twin mix)4:12

05Heroes (Aphex Twin remix)5:18

06In the Glitter, Part 2 (Aphex Twin mix)5:02

07Zeros and Ones (Aphex Twin Reconstruction #2)7:59

08Ziggy (Aphex Twin mix #1)4:25

09Your Head My Voice (Voix Revirement)4:12

10Change (Aphex Twin mix #2)4:15

11Une femme n'est pas un homme (Aphex Twin mix)4:06

12The Beauty of Being Numb Section B (created by Aphex Twin)3:27

13Let My Fish Loose (Aphex Twin Remix)5:25

14Krieger (Aphex Twin Baldhu Mix)

15Deep in Velvet (Aphex Twin Turnips mix)3:50

16Falling Free (Aphex Twin remix)7:40

17We Have Arrived (Aphex Twin QQT mix)4:23

18At the Heart of it All (created by Aphex Twin)3:49

19Flow Coma (remix by AFX)4:59

20Windowlicker (Acid edit)4:15

21Normal (Helston Flora remix by AFX)6:51

22SAW2 CD1 TRK2 (original mix)6:30

23Mindstream (The Aphex Twin remix)3:42

24You Can't Hide Your Love (Hidden Love mix)5:05

25Spotlight (Aphex Twin mix)6:57

26Debase (Soft Palate)5:50

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Comments from YouTube:

@lilytimmons9556

11y↑68

I was so blessed to have witnessed this piece being played. It was a truly changing experience.

@bobgreen623

11y↑99

I have read that it is a representation, maybe partly fantastical, of the band playing as the ship went down, and this is why at times the sound becomes progressively more muffled, as if heard underwater, almost as if somehow the band managed to play on until the ship came to rest on the ocean floor. But yes, it is brilliant, sad and beautiful.

@zacharypage6164

3y↑5

Correct. It makes it hauntingly beautiful.

@anatoly86

3y↑44

This album changed my life forever. My father played it in 92 as I was a child and I could never shake the feeling it gave me. It molded my interests forever.

@sean..L

2y↑22

The feeling this evokes is more complicated than just sadness. I feel like I’m watching the end of something very old and beloved. The type of farewell that is full of honour and respect.

@sirjc1772

6y↑56

The chills tho as the music seems to continue underwater...
While the actual band wouldn’t have been able to carry the tune into the sea, the thought of them playing their final notes before deciding (or being forced) to let go of the instruments is haunting...

@thirien59

They say they kept playing until they died

@annettemarshall4895

6y↑27

Towards the end you can feel how the compression is affecting the metal of the ship and causing these distorted notes and odd gonging sounds - it settles so slowly, yet so inexorably. The pressure even forces tunes out of the piano. No wonder Brian Eno loves this piece...

@markgartside7497

2y↑2

Eno...yes. Bet he had a year in his .piano

@joseantonioalonso9904

4y↑6

La versión corta de The Sinking ,tan disfrutable como la más larga de ellas.Una obra imprescindible

@kristinalebedeva9371

6y↑10

Absolutely mind-blowing. Thank you for making this dark, water diamond available for us.

@derekgusoff6768

14w

The last two chords of this piece, starting at around 23:50, are what's known as an "Amen Cadence". Give it a listen and you'll hear why. This whole piece is like a prayer.

@johnheppenstall4904

5y↑30

The stuff that Eno collected for his Obscure series of albums - I suppose you'd say 'curated' these days - was light years beyond what most people thought was 'alternative' orchestral music. Bought Discreet Music, as an Eno fan, but then had to get this, just from his introduction to it. Then everything else Obscure. Talk about opening your mind/ears/head. We should always be open to new ways of enjoying, well, everything.

@Andrew_Bell209

29w↑1

Such a beautiful, original and oddly familiar piece of music which, would you believe, I used to own as a cassette tape.

@joaquinmartinez8828

8y↑28

One of my favorite pieces of music. I have shared it with my students and they have liked it, I gave a copy to a student a few years ago and she recently said she had listened to it and thanked me for exposing her to different genres of music.

@jin0j0nes56

2y↑7

Just huge. The sound is all encompassing. Truly beautiful.

@atrueswedee

12y↑6

I was in the Choir when Peyton McDonald rewrote the piece. It is truly a fabulous work.

@KeithWhalen11

4y↑6

A devastating piece of music. It reminds me of Charles Ives' Unanswered Question, where the musical constant is challenged from the periphery. The same is true of his Central Park in the Dark (1906), a soundscape of undulating quietude, interrupted by fanfare and the life of the city. The reality of the growing silence here is so grim but like the Ives works, it is more about introspection and philosophy than turning a tune.

@MegaCirse

1y↑3

Подобно первым лучам зари, эта музыка открывает вам глаза на новые обещания и на все чудеса природы. Вызывая невероятные силы, эти произведения трогают струны сердца, вызывают ностальгию и пробуждают любовь, ободранные жизни и оцепенение измученных стражников

@poletooke4691

6y↑13

That is so absolutely GORGEOUS sounding. Shatters your heart and emotions.

@bobgreen623

11y↑7

Mesmerising, haunting, hypnotic, poignant, beautiful, tragic and utterly moving. The much longer Philip Jeck piece using this is just as good

@annettemarshall4895

2y↑4

There's another version of this piece on Youtube recorded at a very large indoor swimming pool and the diferent accoustics are fascinating.... Lovely and even more "under watery" but different.

@mariamenezes6197

10y↑4

Uma maravilha! A melodia transporta-me para o infinito.

@CDtopographics

12y↑6

I was just listenng to a podcast of Bryers on Desert Island Discs and he talks about this composition; his historical research, interviews and the way the sounds were made. I think he said it is based around a hymn called 'Autumn', as he was informed by several survivors and a crew member's log that this is what the band were playing.

@Books_Makeup

3y↑9

This piece brings me back to 2013-16. I discovered this composer and Stars of the Lid during those years.

@gasparucciox9706

11y↑3

fantastic! brian eno discovered so many good musicians ..i didn't knew this! thanks for having posted this

@filmusikchannel7596

36w↑1

Everytime it makes me cry.....wonderful album

@vicaldama9314

2y↑2

Wow I always was so interested and amazed in learning the band kept playing!

@bobgreen623

11y↑8

No he doesn't know. The piece was started in 1969 and released on Eno's label, Obscure, in the 70's coupled with 'Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet'. Also, as more historical facts about the Titanic are discovered, Bryars uses this to update the piece, so it is an ever-evolving piece of work.

@matildesusanafernandezalfa5299

Que belleza!!!!! Gracias Gavin Bryars!!!!

@richarddouglas7810

4y↑5

It's the grand ballroom from the shining on water! Masterpiece!!!

@isaachaynes1832

4y↑2

I don't think there was a grand ballroom on the titanic, but let's pretend because it's prettier that way.

@46metube

10y↑17

what a top piece of music. nothing abstract about it. captures the moment beautifully.

@casakoen

12y↑4

Sublime piece of music

@TheLightofAniu

11y↑4

Indeed, that I can agree with. Since I have ancestors who were on board I can picture it quite perfectly. I have always thought about this tune and it is extremely beautiful, it made me cry the first time I heard it. And when I did, I wrote a long story about it and a novel. I have currently restarted those stories and may be published on Kindle soon. I love this piece. it is sad, it is moving and conveys what happened that night. You have made a very interesting point, thank you.

@giovannibourgeois

31w

great composition .great compositor

@nilton61

2y↑2

This piece blew me away the first time i heard it. When i learned about the title i was struck again

@bobgreen623

11y↑9

The first three chords of the piece, which are heard regularly throughout, also sound very like the opening of the 1812 Overture.

@wilmarobertson

4y↑8

This is the 1912 Overture!

@bobgreen623

11y↑24

Really, this piece could last for at least 2 hours 40, that is the time that elapsed between the Titanic hitting the iceberg and the sinking. Add to that the time it took to settle on the ocean floor and it could be, say, three hours. I'm not sure I could take the emotional impact of a piece like this for that long, but I feel like I should just for the experience, Maybe follow this with Pauline Oliveros' "The Beauty of Sorrow"...

@lougreen3850

3y↑3

Thank you Bob, Pauline Olivero's is a piece of art...

@TheLightofAniu

12y↑6

I think this would be a tune for the aftermath of the sinking. I have this on my iPod and I really enjoy it, but I would think this as a tune for the scenes on board the Carpathia rather than the Titanic, don't get me wrong, it's a brilliant, sad and beautiful piece.

@nickburningham5143

10y↑24

I remember John Peel introducing this and explaining the underlying idea – sound fades but never entirely disappears. New technology has made it possible to capture and amplify sounds from the past and this technology has been used to record the band playing on the Titanic.

@nickburningham5143

8y↑7

Man, I heard it on the radio, John Peel's program – BBC when the album was released. If you want to pursue it with the BBC, go ahead. Whether you trust my memory or not is entirely up to you. I was not trying to open a debate, not trying to be clever, just offering my recollection.

@sidneybarrett8941

7y↑21

I believe Bryars said that he composed the piece after imagining the possibility that sound never disappears, and that the sounds of the Titanic were rolling through the sea forever. I don't think he meant it as a physical reality, only as a spiritual one.

@gatsbyfairbanks5977

7y↑7

it's the concept behind the album which makes it all the more beautiful when you listen to it, that technology doesn't actually exist.

@annettemarshall4895

6y↑4

It's such a beautiful concept and if one considers that we can still hear the background noise of the stars from the Big Bang via radio telescopes I don't think we should dismiss it as far fetched. Anyway, as a purely poetic notion it is perfect for this concept.

@annettemarshall4895

6y↑1

And god bless John Peel - wish he were here.

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@maxcowell3920

8y↑12

Bought the album in 1977 - never forgotten it - reverse side is a tramp singing "Jesus Blood Never Failed me yet" which Bryars recorded - the tramp was completely sober - and not on drugs and so Bryars made a tape loop and introduced a chamber orchestra so that the tramp was accompanied by the best musicians - another really moving piece.

@barrycoad2080

me too

@christopherterry8589

5y↑4

I remember that tramp. On the London Underground. He had perfect pitch. Extraordinary to hear him, as I did, more than once.

@tonymostromable

@christopher terry that's amazing.

@seva809

3y↑1

It's still hard for me to believe it's almost 50 years old.

@elragman

2y↑4

Just beautiful.

@fcon2123

40w

Holy hell. Listen to this side by side with the AFX remix - the soundscape created is jaw dropping.

@OldGoolekid

11y↑5

Eva Hart was a relative of my mothers. Gavin Bryars is a Goole lad. We are, since 1945 on that side of the family,a Goole family..... both things greatly combined. Fantastic bit of music I discovered in my teenage library days in 1995. Love it.

@orbitus9746

5y↑2

Very beautiful music.

@user-dg3re2gz5w

5y↑6

Simply haunting.

@lucseuge3804

3y↑4

Only a few people knows that James Cameron had the idea to make his movie listening to this.

@OdedFriedGaon

11y↑12

Extraordinary music endeavor! Perhaps a subtle interpretation of Amazing Grace. Either way, this is amazing music. not easy to listen to, and very haunting considering the tragedy and its consequences. as you hear it, you are almost there, a passenger upon that ship, a soul slowly being lowered to the bottom of the earth and sea, at the same time lifted and guided up to the heavens. you are resigned, and it is easier.

@danieloconnell3055

1y↑1

That's what I heard too

@odedfried-gaon2880

@Daniel O'Connell Revisiting it now has an even stronger effect. chilling, and amazing.
#OdedFriedGaon #OdedMusic #Audioded

@TheLightofAniu

11y↑1

Thank you very much. It was a story for children written from the perspective of the passengers' dogs. It needs a serious bout or rewriting, but I shall be more than happy to have it published when it is finished.

@enzogalli5506

36w

Excellent!!!

@lobosolitario6633

11y↑1

es una pieza genial...recrea bastante bien y con sentimientos , tal catástrofe...

@PierreRipplinger

12y↑10

The song taht is commonly said to be the last played by the Titanic's orchestra is " Nearer My God To Thee". Bryar's version of this music sound like that song, but misheard among the screams of panic and grinding steel.

@nmeau

3y↑3

Put Jonsi's falcetto on this, and it's like something straight out of Valtari. I can imagine that Jonsi is a huge fan of this.

@nmb803

44w↑1

I can't turn it off. It makes me feel like I'm there with them.

@fittalk

6y↑1

Love it ....

@mornaw

11y↑1

That would be just like him to play this! Always found the most unusual stuff :-) I love this - also Bryars' "Jesus Never Failed Me Yet".

@Toxis77

44w↑5

Here from that submersible getting stuck down there. Rip boys

@bilanovitch

12y↑1

This is really good.

@arblankenship54

The Harold Budd nod of his album pavilion of dreams is just as haunting

@EyeLean5280

8y↑7

Gorgeous. Truly.

@128433094

12y↑4

I first heard this music 1975, sure it was on the john peel program,he introduced it as a recording using a highly sensitive mic from the sinking brilliant

@annettemarshall4895

2y↑1

Peel had wonderful taste for music across all genres

@PIOX1789

5y↑2

Amazing Grace

@reverendbryan

1y↑2

Forever haunting

@tk4623

4y↑1

Listen to this while also listening to UVB-76. You won't be disappointed.

@emilianomartinez8406

37w↑1

Que bonita melodía,like si llegas asta acá del tiktok

@jzocchio

3y↑102

When the piece ended, the video was quickly and automatically followed by an ad that started with a guy uttering astonished: "Beautiful. So beautiful..." – he was frying a steak. It was vulgar, but I had to agree.

@svenlittlecross

3y↑2

whats so vulgar about frying a steak

@jammaschan

3y↑3

@svenlittlecross when you can't eat it.

@Mateo-ko9kx

2y↑1

@Jammas C right in the spot

@Likes_Trains

4y↑1

It's like being stuck in a capsule suspended in time

@sianforsythe7172

11y

Always mesmerising

@donnabrandmeyerrobertdavis2426

6y↑13

Bob here: Highly recommended ... most haunting composition I can remember having heard.

@caseycaizza5

4y↑4

Thanks BOB!!!

@silverapples75

3y↑3

And what does Donna think??

@MedievalRichard

6y↑1

Splendid.

@Rumblemach

2y↑2

I’m wondering if Godspeed You Black Emperor was influenced by this because it really sounds like it.

@RudyMoore

11y↑4

This is correct, many mistake it for Amazing Grace or closer still, Nearer My God to Thee. The opening notes are very similar.

@josephstrausman4941

8y↑55

You can see the big influence on Stars of the Lid, for sure

@fittalk

6y↑1

Very much .

@boggy.subtitulos

5y↑1

Preachhhhhhhh

@katabolism99

11y

Yes i remember hearing this all those years ago on poss JP program. My first play since then

@Vinsomer

I'm getting some strong stage 3 vibes from this

@Messines17

9y↑9

Randomly found this to my delight!!

@05EWalker1

12y↑4

speechless

@wordscontrolminds

9y↑7

Sound theory underwater!

If anyone has read the original sleeve notes for this then you know what we mean.

@bobgreen623

11y↑1

I would be very interested to read your novel if kindle publish it, I will keep a lookout for it.

@invernomuto00

11y

pretty good

@davidallison5571

1y↑1

I loved this back in 1979ish. 44 years later and with much more listening experience - this evening Giancinto Scelsi, Elliot Carter and even Nick Drake - this (like the Jesus Blood piece) sounds mind-blowingly tedious.

@grasshole128

8y↑9

THIS WAS PLAYED AT GROUND ZERO DURING THE DIGGING ON THE PILE AFTER 9/11.

@EyeLean5280

8y↑1

+wangdangdoodilydang I didn't know that. Thank you.

@TheCocoYouKnow

5y↑1

liar

@dukeofkbs

12y↑27

I hear part of an Eve Hart interview in the background . She was a Titanic survivor and was just a child when about the ill fated voyage .

@lindaalaureano

4y↑1

This just played on KALW radio Sept . 11,2020

@FlyingPekinese

11y↑4

Sounds really similar with one Macedonian Folk Song " Ajde slushaj, slushaj, Kalesh Bre Angjo"

@ocpd23

11y↑2

They are recorded sections of interviews with the survivors.

@virgilwilliams8082

7y↑1

I wonder what it would sound like backwards. Lol

@barrycoad2080

the full package

@kengriffin70

4y↑2

Its beautiful, but clearly a variation of Danny Boy

@SimonBirchMusic1

12y↑2

is that a quotation of Amazing Grace I can hear?

@SomeoneJr

2y↑1

GUYS ITS OBSCURE GUYS IN CASE YOU DIDNT KNOW🧠👍

@archihi6957

3y↑1

스피치레스!

@vixx_vaporub

3y↑10

This heavily reminds me of Everywhere At The End Of Time

@inactive0987

3y↑10

Oh god please don't

@zacharypage6164

3y↑1

Yes

@Max16032

3y↑5

You're like that guy who thinks every oldie sounds like Fallout

@larseadman6217

8y↑4

BRIAN ENO!

@PathosDistanz

12y↑1

No, we won't take it from you, because you don't know.

@BrisbaneBruce

12y

yes you could...in icy cold water lol

@WayMorecowbell

22w

Aphex Twin brought me here!

@Awak3ner

11y↑8

What is the talking that starts up at around 2:30 ?

@cherry-willowpauls1523

4y↑1

Survivors talking

@tneswick2

11y

BioShock subreddit brought me here.

@johnniejukebox

Gain Friday got me here..

@SuperStuey2

Creepy!

@richardsweb

8y↑32

Aphex Twin sent me here

@virgilwilliams8082

Me too.

@MrAlexSalinasVLOG

how??

@iTomAnks

The 1994 version of this piece was remixed by him, called Raising The Titanic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9sQaIn1BmA

@kuroiwashi9044

hehe me also

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