NEWS UPDATE: 11th APRIL 2025
Thanks to Dario, Rory, Samantha, John, Paul, Nick, Mustard The Tortoise, and EnoWeb's own newsbot Tom Boon in no particular order for these news items.
New album news: Brian has been collaborating with Beatie Wolfe, and the result is two albums due for release on 6th June: Luminal and Lateral. The former features songs by Beatie, while the latter Lateral is ambient. The albums will be available on Eco-Vinyl including limited edition colours. Brian's label page says, 'Luminal is Dream music. Lateral is Space music. Nobody expected this music from these two artists. They didn’t even expect it themselves.' According to Deutsche Grammophon, 'Both describe the [Luminal] music, which is unusual for both artists, as "electric-country-dream-music." Lateral, on the other hand, is described as "ambient-landscape-dream-music" and "like the familiar, but better." ' Presumably that is not a reference to the Roger Eno/Kate St. John album The Familiar, but to another familiar thing with which EnoWeb is not familiar. The announcement was preceded by some short videos on Eno's social media channels, @-ing Beatie and titled "Torschlusspanik", "Ailyak. Slow down, listen in", and "Dor. Longing, belonging"; Exclaim has a write-up of the press release for the albums which explains that the pair had these (and other) feelings in mind when composing. NME printed the full list.
Luminal track-listing:
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 track-listing:
Big Empty Country (Day)
Big Empty Country (Night)
Mustard The Tortoise: Clearly Brian is working from the Oblique Strategy card that says "Only collaborate with people if your initials match the first two letters of their names". First Bette A, now Beatie Wolfe.
EnoWeb: You reckon?
Mustard: Oh yes.
It's just a shame that Benny Hill is no longer with us.
- Official web page
- Exclaim
- NME
- Luminal and Lateral at Deutsche Grammophon
- Big Empty Country (Edit)
- Suddenly
- Brian's Linktree for links
- Beatie and Brian's 2023 chat on Orange Juice for the Ears
AURUM FORUM
March saw the low-key release of a new album called Aurum, exclusive to Apple Music. It's a compilation of the tracks that were thrown together by Mister Peter Chilvers' Patented Steam-Driven Music Mangle and originally premiered on Brian's Amber radio show, plus one other. If you have an Android device then all is not lost: Apple Music is available as an app in the Android store, and the smiling dealer is offering the first month's hit free... banking on you getting hooked and forgetting to cancel.
- AURUM
- Zane Lowe visits Brian's studio to chat about AURUM, What Art Does, and other stuff, but Brian pretends to be out
[EnoWeb: are you sure this is right, Mustard?]
MAX TAX
"Oooh! Tax me! Tax me!" Brian begged, alongside other Patriotic Millionaires. "We've been sooo naughty and we need to be punished financially!" [Mustard: Right, I'm getting bored now. I think there's a dandelion in the garden with my name on it.]
EVENTS, DEAR BOY, EVENTS
On 28th April Brian will be in conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson, Laline Paull, J. M. Ledgard plus some Oxford academics, as The Oxford Ministry for the Future presents Art, Nature and Science: Imagining Other Worlds. In August he is scheduled to be at the Greenbelt festival after having to cancel last summer.
SCREEN TEST
- 3 Eno lightboxes in Budapest
- New unique etchings at Paul Stolper (seemingly the basis of the artwork for Luminal and Lateral)
- 2025: The Long Hot Winter: a 2019 film with Brian providing the voice of a radio announcer
- Rockin'On's 2016 report on a listening event for The Ship
- Electronic Sound magazine's 2020 interview with the Brothers Eno
- Brian's statement about the Minority Report-style precrime police raid on a peaceful meeting
- Baratunde Thurston asked Brian, "Is AI the Death of Creativity?"
- Brian was one of the contributors to The Infinite Monkey Cage programme on music – a radio reunion with Prof Brian Cox, with whom he used to spend Christmases alongside Sean Keaveny
- He also cropped up on an edition of Soul Music about Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’
- Brian's magnum opus, "The Microsoft Sound" from Windows 95, has been added to the US Library of Congress' collection
- Pedro Pascal is one of (the last of) us
- Bryan Ferry was interviewed