Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe - Lateral

Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe — Lateral

Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe's collaborative album Lateral will be released on June 6, 2025. It's part of a pair of albums, with the other being Luminal both featuring music that explores different moods and themes. Luminal is described as "dream music," while Lateral is described as "space music."

Eno and Wolfe first met through their environmental work when they gave a SXSW featured talk on "Art and Climate." The talk was later 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 — 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..."

Brian Eno is a legendary musician, producer, visual artist and activist who first came to international prominence in the early ‘70s as a founding member of the British band Roxy Music, followed by a series of solo albums, collaborations, and production work with artists such as David Bowie, Talking Heads, Devo, U2, Coldplay, his brother Roger Eno, and most recently, fred again. Beatie Wolfe is a Los-Angeles-based, British-American conceptual artist & activist. Named by WIRED as one of the "22 people changing the world," Wolfe is pioneering new artistic formats that bridge the physical and digital. United by their mutual commitment to art & the environment, the pair team up for Luminal and Lateral. Recorded in London and centered around the concept of "art, and feelings," both albums feature original music and cover an array of genres/styles: Luminal being a vocal alternative album, and Lateral comprising of a continuous ambient work.

Side A

1. Big Empty Country (Day)

Side B

2. Big Empty Country (Night)

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