Liminal

Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe have an album out in October- Liminal. It's the third of a three album series. I missed the first pair- Luminal and Lateral- so have some catching up to do. Eno's very prolific isn't he? One of the pieces of music from the forthcoming one, Ringing Ocean, came my way recently and it struck me as being very beautiful...

It's somewhere in the intersection between neo- classical, ambient and dream sequence music, very difficult to describe adequately but blissful, restrained, repetitive and hypnotic music that suggests rather than tells. Eno and Wolfe say it's liminal because it sits in the borderland between song and non- song. 

This one, The Last To Know, is from the same album and is evidently halfway between song and non- song, ambient drift and slow synths with a vocal that at first seemed quite out of place to me, the song and non- song colliding...

I suspect that over the course of an eleven track album it will all make perfect sense, the flow from one piece to another.

This seems the ideal time to re- post this track by Brian's brother Roger, a gorgeous but really quite melancholy ambient piece called Tidescape from October 2023 which I loved but never followed up (possibly because I thought an entire album might be a bit too melancholic). Roger plays piano and is joined by Alexander Glucksmann, Jon Goddard and Christian Badzura, between them contributing clarinet, electric guitar, organ, vibraphone and synths. Music in/ for a state of flux.