mp3: Brian Eno - Bonebomb
I find it hard and rare to be shocked these days by music, that is, in the real, physical sense - to have it swipe a bearclaw at my sensibilities, leave me dazed, even, by its power, even close to tears. This closing track of Eno’s last album, Another Day On Earth, manages to do just that to me every time I hear it, and on repeated plays, I’ve found the feeling doesn’t diminish.
The idea for the song was taken from a newspaper article Eno read where an Israeli doctor discussed the fact that one of the major causes of death and further injury in suicide bombings is human shrapnel fragments from the bones of the bomber themselves.
This is grim stuff, undoubtedly, but he doesn’t parade around the showground with flags a-flying telling us all what we know already; instead, manipulating words recited impassively by poet Aylie Cooke, he brings out a ghostly, broken story with such humanity that ‘Bonebomb’ just won’t go away after you hear it, and puts the rest of what’s already a really good album in the shade - probably why he wisely stuck it on at the end.
I was in a lift in London at the weekend and the recorded female voice giving the floor and door instructions seemed to be the one used in Bonebomb. I began to wonder if Brian Eno had used a computer voice. That’s how I found this post by Dermot. It is a very powerful track.
Comment by John — November 21, 2006 @ 5:17 pm
There are two sources. The story of the girl who left word fragments behind to explain her act and the Israeli doctor who has to remove the bombers’ bones from the victims.
It’s horrifyingly effective, isn’t it? It’s probably, as apparently Bowie told him, one of the best things that Eno’s done…
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