Finding the Heart in Brian Eno’s Experimental Masterpiece ‘Here Come the Warm Jets’

 

"Perhaps the best example of the way meaning can come from unexpected places, though, is the song that starts Side 2, “On Some Faraway Beach.” Its piano figure is so simple that even a dilettante like me can play it, but as Eno builds layers upon layers upon layers (according to his notorious 1974 interview with Chrissie Hynde, there are 27 piano tracks on the song), it takes on a grandeur all its own. The lyrics, which apparently came to Eno in a dream, seem both sad and somehow transcendent: “Given the chance/ I’ll die like a baby/ On some faraway beach/ When the season’s over…” It’s as deeply moving a piece of music as you’ll ever hear, and if you believe its creator, it occurred entirely by happenstance."

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