Brian Eno‘s brand new album with Anglo-American conceptual artist and composer Beatie Wolfe, “Liminal,” is released through Decca Records today, but the artists themselves have their sights set on much bigger things.
This evening “Liminal” will be broadcast into space! With the assistance of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dr. Robert Wilson, the legendary Holmdel Horn antenna in Crawford Park, New Jersey, “Liminal” will voyage to the stars!
The Holmdel Horn antenna was built by Bell Laboratories in 1959, it played a crucial role in the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which substantiated the Big Bang Theory, as well as picking up the earliest echoes of the birth of the Universe.
Watch the official music video for the track “Procession” via the YouTube player below:
“This music, to us, feels like an exploration of new territories, imagining future worlds that we want to live in,” says Eno. “And so it felt fitting to broadcast it into the unknown, into dark matter.“
Both Eno and Wolfe refer to “Liminal” as dark matter music, in relation to the album’s predecessors, “Luminal,” described as dream music, “Lateral” as Space Music, and both of which were also released this year.
“Liminal dwells somewhere between Lateral and Luminal, but also in its own place entirely,” the pair say. “It feels like the beginning of exploring a new terrain of music that is about future landscapes, environmental spaces and atmospheres, that a human presence (of sorts) occasionally floats in and out of.”
Purchase “Liminal” here: https://brianeno.lnk.to/Liminal
Tracklist:
01. Part Of Us
02. Ringing Ocean
03. The Last To Know
04. Procession
05. Little Boy
06. Flower Woman
07. Shallow Form
08. Before Life
09. Laundry Room
10. Corona
11. Shudder Like Crows