Legendary composer Brian Eno and visionary artist-musician Beatie Wolfe join forces to create a pair of collaborative albums: Luminal and Lateral releasing on June 6, 2025. Luminal is Dream music. Lateral is Space music. Nobody expected this music from these two artists. They didn’t even expect it themselves. In 2022, Brian and Beatie met at SXSW where they gave a featured talk — Art and Climate — about how art can play a vital role in response to the climate emergency. With Brian sharing his music industry charity EarthPercent and Beatie sharing From Green to Red, an environmental protest piece built using 800,000 years of NASA data to visualize rising CO2 levels, their conversation was selected as one of the festival’s best iconic moments in 25 years. The two met again in London where they were each showing their own visual and conceptual art pieces at separate galleries. These encounters sparked the embers that is now their musical partnership. Recorded sporadically through 2024, Brian and Beatie reflect on their collaboration of Luminal and Lateral: “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 ... 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 Stay tuned to hear more about the collaboration and synchronicity of these two talented beings. PREORDER LUMINAL AND LATERAL ON CD OR ECOFRIENDLY BIOVINYL | LISTEN & WATCH TWO NEW SONGS “SUDDENLY” AND “BIG EMPTY COUNTRY (EDIT)”: BRIANENO.LNK.TO/BRIANBEATIE FOLLOW THESE ARTISTS FOR MORE ON IG: @BRIANENO | @BEATIEWOLFE PHOTO BY CECILY ENO 13
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