Verve Records announces a new collaborative project by the artist-musicians, Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe.
Luminal and Lateral will be released together on June 6th, 2025. Offering a flavour of the forthcoming project, two songs – “Suddenly” and “Big Empty Country (Edit),” from Luminal and Lateral respectively, have also been made public today. Luminal is Dream music. Lateral is Space music. Nobody expected this music from these two artists. They didn’t even expect it themselves.
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 – 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’stransience
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 worldwithout someone
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
Both albums are available to pre-order now HERE, including CD and exclusive colour bio vinyl manufactured using eco-friendly materials.
Photo Credit: Cecily Eno