Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe | News | Infotext Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe - Lateral / Luminal (Verve, VÖ: 06.06.2025)

 

- Tracklisting - 

1. Milky Sleep [3:19]
2. Hopelessly At Ease [3:42]
3. My Lovely Days [4:44]
4. Play On [5:55]
5. Shhh [4:45]
6. Suddenly [3:35]
7. A Ceiling And A Lifeboat [3:14]
8. And Live Again [4:19]
9. Breath March [3:10]
10. Never Was It Now [4:36]
11. What We Are [4:45]

 

- Tracklisting -  

1. Big Empty Country – Pt. I [8:02]
2. Big Empty Country – Pt. II [8:00]
3. Big Empty Country – Pt. III [8:01]
4. Big Empty Country – Pt. IV [7:59]
5. Big Empty Country – Pt. V [7:56]
6. Big Empty Country – Pt. VI [8:03]
7. Big Empty Country – Pt. VII [7:56]
8. Big Empty Country – Pt. VIII [8:02]
9. Big Empty Country (Edit) [4:14]

 

Musiklegende BRIAN ENO und Konzeptkünstlerin BEATIE WOLFE veröffentlichen mit den gemeinsamen Alben L U M I N A L und L A T E R A L zwei Projekte, die ebenso eigenständig wie miteinander verbunden sind.  

Das Alternative Music/Vocal-Album L U M I N A L featured Vocals + Lyrics von Wolfe und wurde von Eno produziert. Beide nennen die Musik auf dem für beide Künstler ungewöhnlichen Album „electric-country-dream-music“.

L A T E R A L bezeichnen beide dagegen als „ambient-landscape-dream-music“ und „like the familiar, but better“. Eno selbst gilt als Erfinder des Begriffes „Ambient Music“ in den 1970er Jahren.

Beide Alben erscheinen am 6.6. auf LP, CD und digital. Die Künstler sind Mitglieder von EarthPercent, einer Non-Profit-Organisation, die Klimaschutz innerhalb der Musikindustrie einfordert und unterstützt. Die schwarzen und limitierten LPs des Projektes werden deshalb in BioVinyl (bio-basiertem PVC) gepresst. 

BRIAN ENO und BEATIE WOLFE lernten sich im Rahmen ihrer Umweltarbeit kennen, als sie einen Vortrag zum Thema „Kunst und Klima“ beim SXSW-Festival in London hielten. Der Vortrag wurde kürzlich zu einem der besten des Festivals seit 25 Jahren gewählt.

Die beiden trafen sich dann erneut, als sie jeweils ihre visuellen und konzeptuellen Kunstwerke in verschiedenen Londoner Galerien zeigten. Aus diesen Treffen entstand ihre musikalische Zusammenarbeit. Über ihr gemeinsames Projekt sagen sie:

“Music is about making feelings happen. 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…

 

Brian Eno – musician, producer, visual artist and activist first came to international prominence in the early seventies as a founding member of British band, Roxy Music, followed by a series of solo albums and collaborations. His work as producer includes albums with Talking Heads, Devo, U2, Laurie Anderson, James, Jane Siberry and Coldplay, while his long list of collaborations include recordings with David Bowie, Jon Hassell, Harold Budd, David Byrne, Grace Jones, his brother, Roger, on ‘Mixing Colours’ and recently with Fred Again. In January 2024, ‘Eno’, a generative film about his life was screened at Sundance film festival to critical acclaim. It was accompanied by a soundtrack release with new unreleased songs and classic Eno recordings spanning five decades.

Eno’s visual experiments with light and video continue to parallel his musical career, with exhibitions and installations all over the globe. He has exhibited extensively, as far afield as St. Petersburg’s Marble Palace, Ritan Park in Beijing, Arcos de Lapa in Rio de Janeiro and the sails of the Sydney Opera House. He is involved in multiple activist work, such as the climate charity Earth Percent and HardArt, both of which he co-founded, as well as the Stop The War coalition. He is a founding member of the Long Now Foundation, a trustee of Client Earth and patron of Videre est Credere. In 2023, Brian was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement by the Venice Biennale Musica. He has recently written his second book, “What Art Does” co-authored with Bette A and based upon his experience as an artist. Published by Faber, it was released in January 2025.

 

“Musical weirdo and visionary" (Vice) Beatie Wolfe has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN role model for innovation, and held a solo exhibition of her ‘world first’ designs at the V&A Museum.

Named by WIRED as one of "22 people changing the world,” Wolfe is at the forefront of pioneering new formats that bridge the physical and digital. Wolfe’s latest innovations include a visualisation of 800,000 years of CO2 data, which premiered at the Nobel Prize Summit; a Brain Installation which was exhibited at the London Design Biennale in Somerset House and a Big Oil project which just won Prix Ars Electronica’s Golden Nica.

Other recent projects include the world’s first bioplastic record with Michael Stipe and EarthPercent and a new body of work with Brian Eno. Wolfe is also the co-founder of a groundbreaking research project looking at the power of music for dementia.

 

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