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BRIAN ENO + BEATIE WOLFE

SHARE NEW SINGLE AND VISUALIZER

“WHAT WE ARE”

OUT NOW

VISUALIZER HERE

COLLABORATIVE ALBUMS

LUMINAL & LATERAL

SET FOR JUNE 6TH ON VERVE RECORDS

 

Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe share a new single and visualizer, “What We Are.” It is the second track from their upcoming collaborative album, Luminal, which alongside the single-track instrumental album, Lateral, is set for release together on June 6th, 2025 via Verve Records.

Beatie Wolfe writes, “What We Are is a new kind of song somewhere on the intersection of cowboy psychedelia and electrofolk. It’s a lullaby for people who don’t sleep as much as they should. It’s a balm for the barmy.”

 

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Offering an initial flavour of the forthcoming project, two songs – ”Suddenly” and ”Big Empty Country (Edit),” from Luminal and Lateral respectively, were made available for streaming on announcement in April. Luminal is Dream music. Lateral is Space music. Nobody expected this music from these two artists. They didn’t even expect it themselves. But it feels natural.

As put by Relix: “their kindred approaches yielded works that express the range and richness of their artistic perspectives. This naturally eclectic result is apparent between today’s advance offerings: while “Suddenly” is a warm and wistful folk-pop reflection, “Big Empty Country (Edit)” is just the sort of expansive atmospheric work Eno could be credited with inventing.”

Eno and Wolfe first met through their environmental work when they gave a SXSW featured talk on ‘Art and Climate’. The talk was recently selected as one of the festival’s best in 25 years.

The pair then met again when they were each showing their visual and conceptual art pieces at separate galleries in London. Their musical collaboration grew out of those meetings.

Reflecting on their collaboration on this project, which was recorded sporadically by the pair through 2024, Brian and Beatie said:

“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 – wordsthat 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 ofArt 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…

 

Ailyak (Bulgarian)… going slow, enjoying the process

Commuovere (Italian)… the experience of being moved

Dor (Romanian)… longing or belonging

Duende (Spanish)… getting the shivers

Fèath (Gaelic)… stillness, peace

Gezelligheid (Dutch)… warm intimacy

Ilinx (French)… strange excitement from play

Jijivisha (Sanskrit)… life lived fully

Liget (Filipino)… fiery energy, life spark

Merak (Serbian)… at one with the Universe

Meraki (Greek)… to pour yourself into something

Mono no aware (Japanese)… appreciation of life’s transience

Onsra (Boro)… the anticipation of losing love

Pronoia (Greek)… the opposite of paranoia

Sisu (Finnish)… determination, grit

Torschlusspanik (German)… fear of time running out

Ya’aburnee (Arabic)… not wanting to live in a world without someone

 

Beatie Wolfe has recently held a solo exhibition of her design work at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, has been appointed a UN role model for innovation, and alongside Michael Stipe, was one of the artists on the world’s first bioplastic record, released by EarthPercent. Wolfe was named by WIRED as one of “22 people changing the world” and 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 NASA’sCO2 data, which premiered at the Nobel Prize Summit; a brain installation which was exhibited at the London Design Biennale in Somerset House and is currently on show at the Museum of Science Boston, and aBig Oil x Methane project which won Prix ars Electronica Golden Nica. Other recent projects include the world’s first bioplastic record with Michael Stipe andEarth Percent, a collective mail art project with DEVO’S MarkMothersbaugh and of course, 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. If you have not heard of her yet, you will.

Both albums are available to pre-order now HERE, including CD and exclusive color bio vinyl manufactured using eco-friendly materials.

 

 

Luminal Beatie Wolfe and Brian Eno

 

Tracklist

 

1. Milky Sleep

 

2. Hopelessly At Ease

 

3. My Lovely Days

 

4. Play On

 

5. Shhh

 

6. Suddenly

 

7. A Ceiling and a Lifeboat

 

8. And Live Again

 

9. Breath March

 

10. Never Was It Now

 

11. What We Are

 

 

Lateral Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe

 

CD Tracklist

 

1. Big Empty Country

 

Vinyl Tracklist

 

1. Big Empty Country (Day)

 

2. Big Empty Country (Night)

 

Digital Tracklist

 

1. Big Empty Country Pt. I

 

2. Big Empty Country Pt. II

 

3. Big Empty Country Pt. III

 

4. Big Empty Country Pt. IV

 

5. Big Empty Country Pt. V

 

6. Big Empty Country Pt. VI

 

7. Big Empty Country Pt. VII

 

8. Big Empty Country Pt. VIII

 

Brian Eno bio – 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 criticalacclaim. 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 whichhe 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.