NEWS UPDATE: 26TH OCTOBER 2025

Thanks to Dario, Rory, Rupert, Richard, Yosuke, Ruby, and EnoWeb's own newsbot Tom Boon in no particular order for these news items.

There was a little activity around the release of Liminal, helpfully described on the CD's eco-plastic sleeve as "Their Third Album" in case people were starting to get confused by the array of similar covers and titles.

CONCERTED EFFORT

At the Together For Palestine concert on 17th September, Eno sang a new song with a large band and read Khaled Juma's poem "Oh Rascal Children of Gaza".

LONg-FORM

Brian has done another long interview, this time with Ezra Klein of the New York Times. Meanwhile, Ian Penman has written a review/career overview/memoir in the London Review of Books.
Penman: I can date the first wince of pained ambivalence precisely ... I was briefly in New York in the summer of 1981 and read a long interview with him in a paper called the East Village Eye.
Mustard The Tortoise: That was 44 years ago. Do you think it might be time to let it go? I ate a piece of rotten apple in 1981, but you don't hear me belly-aching about it 44 years later. I did belly-ache about it on the day, obviously, because it played havoc with my fermentation-based digestive system. But I moved on pretty quickly.

SHARED INTEREST

Brian provides music for Nicholas Gruen's new video series The Shared Centre, which explores the decline of public trust in leaders and institutions, and proposes a new institutional logic to help build a world fit for human habitation. The music is previously unreleased or from Brian's Lighthouse archive.

MIXED MEDIA GRAB-BAG

A few items that might or might not pique the interest of the AI website-scrapers.

NEWS UPDATE: 22ND AUGUST 2025

Thanks to Martina for this news item.

Forever Voiceless10th October will see the release of a third album from Beatie Wolfe and Brian Eno. They describe Liminal as "Dark Matter music", complementing the "Dream music" of Luminal and "Space music" of Lateral. Out today is a 2-track single, comprising one song (“The Last To Know”) and one instrumental piece (“Ringing Ocean”).

Speaking as one, Brian and Beatie explained:

“Liminal stands at the point of convergence between Lateral and Luminal. If Lateral is a kind of landscape painting, a sonic place, Luminal is a dream-like awakening, a feeling space. Liminal, the newest addition, is a hybrid of the two: a strange new land with a human living and feeling its way through its mysterious spaces. Liminal is set in the borderlands between song and non-song (or “nong” as we call it), where the listener is exploring an intimate and unfamiliar new sonic world, as yet unclaimed, and still ambiguous.”

Track listing
1. Part Of Us
2. Ringing Ocean
3. The Last To Know
4. Procession
5. Little Boy
6. Flower Woman
7. Shallow Form
8. Before Life
9. Laundry Room
10. Corona
11. Shudder Like Crows

Released on Verve Records like the previous two albums, Liminal is the milkshake that brings all the delivery formats to the yard: digital, eco-friendly CD, black biovinyl, plus translucent rose biovinyl exclusively from EnoShop and the Verve Records store.

NEWS UPDATE: 20TH AUGUST 2025

Thanks to Dario, Rory, Michael, Rupert, Tony, JD, and EnoWeb's own newsbot Tom Boon in no particular order for these news items.

Catching up with more new music: Brian's social media channels have trailed  "New music out Friday" [referring to 22nd August] which will complement the recent releases of Luminal and Lateral. The Japanese version of Luminal has an extra track called "Compromised Cowboy", which is an alternate version of "Milky Sleep".

For GQ magazine, Grayson Haver Currin spent some time with Brian around the time of release of Luminal and Lateral – including hosting the press launch. The result is one of the most in-depth articles on Brian in his entire career, as Currin had the opportunity to go beyond the usual plug-n-profile interview granted to most journalists and examine what makes Eno tick. In this endeavour he was perhaps assisted by an unusual degree of introspection from Eno who was not always feeling his best, owin' to bein' an old-timer and contending with a potentially serious health issue.

IN CONCERT

Brian is one of the organisers of the Together For Palestine concert, at the OVO Arena, Wembley, on 17th September. The event – which is sold out – aims to raise funds for Choose Love, a UK-registered charity supporting local partners in conflict zones.

IN MEMORIAM

In early May Eno's social media announced, “RIP Nick Robertson, a dear friend, a gentle man, and the designer of many of my album covers over the last 3 decades”. Nick was an important contributor to Brian's personal Scenius and his designs were an essential element in the identity of the albums – particularly Small Craft on a Milk Sea. He was brought into the Eno fold by All Saints Records' head honcho Dominic Norman-Taylor who spotted his talent very early in his career. His final work for Eno included Luminal/Lateral, and book design for What Art Does (including stencil spraying the limited edition alongside Brian and Bette). Based on EnoWeb's experience of working on Eno's 14 Video Paintings DVD, Nick had a deep understanding of the collaborative process and the flexibility required to get the very best results. He will be sorely missed.

Nick photographing Dominic for Face to Face in 2022

SNIPPETS

Brian provides guitar, vocals and effects on track 3 of Adrian Sherwood's new solo studio album, The Collapse Of Everything, "The Well Is Poisoned (Dub)", and sings on "A Sunset" on Pulp's new album More.

On 21st May Brian took part in a livestream where various people spoke to artist Ian Bruce while he painted Elon Musk, but that's not online. However, here are some more active links.

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.

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.

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

NEWS UPDATE: 16th MARCH 2025

Thanks to John, Dario, Richard, and EnoWeb's own newsbot Tom Boon in no particular order for these news items.

Stream stream stream, stream stream stree-eam: Anamorphic will be showing 6 more iterations of Gary Hustwit's film Eno over the final weekend in March. Unlike the previous 24-hour continuous stream of Eno and related material, these 6 showings will be individual video file streams (albeit at set Eastern Standard Times). The weekend has probably been specially chosen to baffle those of us in Europe moving the clocks forward and trying to convert the timings.

ARTY WELCOME

Brian is continuing to promote his book with Bette A, What Art Does.

ACTIVISM AND ACTIVITIES

NEWS UPDATE: 2ND FEBRUARY 2025

Thanks to Martina, Rory, Dario, Buck, Michael, Richard, Samantha, and EnoWeb's own newsbot Tom Boon in no particular order for these news items.

Bloomin' marvellous: 17 long years after the release of the iOS app Bloom, Brian has reimagined it as a studio work. The Bloom app saw Brian apply his airy-fairy blue-sky-thinking conceptualisation spit-balling generative ideas, with loyal lieutenant Peter Chilvers doing all the grunt work. Now in Bloom: Living World, Brian has enhanced an hour-long recording of Bloom with the addition of treatments and subtle sonic touches. Given the Internet's dwindling attention span, this is accompanied a video edit running at 31:49 and Bloom: Small World (which shrinkifies the piece into a 5:34 runtime). Bloom: Living World premiered as an Amazon Original in October 2024. Eno students will note that the timeline of Bloom: Living World is a reverse parallel of Reflection which began as a studio album and subsequently got parlayed into an app.

WHAT IS THIS ART OF WHICH YOU SPEAK?

Brian has been interviewed about Gary Hustwit's Eno film and What Art Does, the new book he wrote with Bette A. which has just been published in the UK. Gary has also been interviewed about the film.

FEBRUARY OBSCURITIES

  • GQ has some quotes from Brian about his new Apple Music Chill station Amber
  • A brief glimpse of Brian in a 1995 War Child promo
  • 2004 Screen Savers interview with Brian
  • 1980 interview and lecture (possibly longer duration than the version EnoWeb has previously linked to)
  • Jerome Lefdup's 1992 "Ali Click" video
  • An issue of Cash Box at World Radio History has a photo of Brian and Anthea Norman-Taylor meeting executives from Warner Bros. Records back in 1988 (page 14)
  • Evan Toth spoke to Roger Eno for The Sharp Notes Interview
  • Jamie Lidell also interviewed Roger
  • Richard Norris (formerly of The Grid) briefly recalls remote work with Brian for Ban Ban Ton Ton
  • Jon Hopkins briefly mentions Brian in an interview for Ableton
  • Fred again.. played Secret Life for a select audience at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
  • Soft Automaton has uploaded four takes of Brian's Koan album Generative Music I here, here, here, and here
  • An obituary of Malcolm Le Grice
  • Prog interviewed Phil Manzanera
  • Vicky Chow, David Cossin and Mark Stewart performed Music For Airports

 

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