Altro classico più e più volte rivisitato e che torna ora all'attenzione è The Sinking of the Titanic, di Gavin Bryars. Ne annuncia la ripubblicazione in cd e vinile Superior Viaduct, rispettando l'accoppiata con Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet già sancita all'esordio della serie Obscure nel 1975.
The Sinking of the Titanic, Bryars' first major composition, was inspired by the tragic event of the British passenger liner's cross-Atlantic maiden voyage. Bryars eloquently reconstructs the passengers' experience – at once forlorn and eerily calming – through assemblages of understated strings and indeterminate elements. A core principle of the piece is that the ship's band continued to play as the vessel went down. One of the most sublime works in the modern classical canon, Titanic remains Bryars' magnum opus.
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet, the album's second sidelong track, is based on a tape loop of a London street singer captured in the early 1970s. Featuring Derek Bailey, Michael Nyman and John White, Bryars' composition gradually builds around the cripplingly poignant voice until its emotional force is almost too much to bare.