Brian Eno has partnered with previous collaborator and composer Beatie Wolfe on a pair of collaborative albums, Luminal and Lateral, which will both arrive 6 June on Verve Records.
And kicking things off, Eno and Wolfe are previewing the album with two new singles, Suddenly and Big Empty Country – from Luminal and Lateral, respectively.
Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe first met through their environmental work when they an SXSW-featured talk on Art and Climate, which was recently selected as one of the festival’s best in 25 years.
The pair later met when they were each showing visual and conceptual art pieces at separate galleries in London, and this latest musical collaboration grew out of these meetings.
“Music is about making feelings happen,” Eno and Wolfe say. “Some of those feelings are familiar, while others may not be – or may be complex mixtures of several different feelings. There are many beautiful words for such feelings in other languages and cultures – words that don’t exist in English.
“By giving a feeling a name, we make that feeling more likely to be felt, more tangible. Art is able to trigger feelings, or feeling mixtures, that we’ve never quite felt before. In this way, a piece of art can become the ‘mother’ for a type of feeling, and a place you can go to find and re-experience that feeling. Some of the feelings we found ourselves working with were these…”
You can check out the tracklists of both Luminal and Lateral below:
Luminal
- Milky Sleep
- Hopelessly At Ease
- My Lovely Days
- Play On
- Shhh
- Suddenly
- A Ceiling and a Lifeboat
- And Live Again
- Breath March
- Never Was It Now
- What We Are
Lateral
- Big Empty Country Pt. I
- Big Empty Country Pt. II
- Big Empty Country Pt. III
- Big Empty Country Pt. IV
- Big Empty Country Pt. V
- Big Empty Country Pt. VI
- Big Empty Country Pt. VII
- Big Empty Country Pt. VIII
In other news, Brian Eno recently made his thoughts on artificial intelligence known, noting: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people.”
Learn more about Luminal and Lateral at Verve Records.
