Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe announce two collaborative albums, ‘Luminal’ and ‘Lateral’
Ambient music pioneer Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe have unveiled details of two new collaborative albums, Luminal and Lateral, both set for release on June 6th via Verve Records.
The upcoming project has been teased with the release of two new tracks, ‘Suddenly’ and ‘Big Empty Country’, which provide the first glimpse of what to expect from the forthcoming set of albums from the duo.
The creative partnership between Eno and Wolfe began due to their respective environmental work, which led to them crossing paths and delivering a keynote speech at SXSW. They met again when they were showing visual and conceptual art pieces at separate galleries in London.
Throughout 2024, they began making music together sporadically which birthed Luminal, which is “dream music”, and Lateral, which is “space music”.
In a shared statement, they 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 – words that don’t exist in English. By giving a feeling a name, we make that feeling more likely to be felt, more tangible.”
Eno and Wolfe continued: “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…”
Both albums are currently available to pre-order ahead of their release on June 6th, 2025, through Verve Records.
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