BRIAN ENO FOREVER VOICELESS 2023 RECORD STORE DAY EXCLUSIVE RELEASES APRIL 22ND
Crystal Clear Coloured Vinyl And Eco Packaging
An instrumental edition of the critically acclaimed 2022 album, FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE written and produced by Brian Eno
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Praise for FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE:
“Heartbreaking songs shot through with wonder…. these songs feel personal, intimate and urgent.” ****, The Observer
“FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE is not a "protest album", Eno insists, but rather, a necessarily sombre meditation on a world that is “changing at a super-rapid rate….large parts of it are disappearing forever.” As such, it is as timely as it is sobering and, in places, austerely, compellingly beautiful.” - ****, Mojo
“FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE’" is nostalgic, melancholic, hopeful and hopeless, existentialist and nihilist. Brian Eno is one of the few artists who is able to convey the things he does by using so little, and ‘FOREVER’ is a prime example of his mastery.” - 9/10 CLASH
16 FEBRUARY 2023 (TORONTO, ON) - Brian Eno released his latest studio album FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE in October 2022. It quickly garnered praise from critics and was a distinct departure from recent Eno albums, featuring his vocals as primary focus across an entire album for the first time since 2005’s Another Day On Earth.
With FOREVER VOICELESS he has removed the voice moving the focus back onto the core music for this special Record Store Day release.
Eno experimented with the use of tonal over major chord changes for the original album that was at times choral and hymnal, sometimes apocalyptic and then hauntingly beautiful. These instrumentals reveal the starkly dramatic and delicate tones that set these shifting moods. The album’s theme, a reaction to the ongoing climate emergency, is now laid out clearly in this hypnotic, sonic landscape.
He noted that, as an artist, he creates sonic worlds, only this time these were landscapes with humans in them. With the voice removed, these tracks are once again places that we can travel to.
“I’ve been doing what you might call landscape music for quite a few years, making atmospheres and moods and places rather than narratives. They’re not stories, they are places you can go to, musical places.
The voice is there almost as narrator, not so much as a personality. it’s not necessarily me, it’s not autobiographical in a certain way. it’s meant to be anonymous.” - Brian Eno
FOREVER VOICELESS will be available on crystal clear vinyl exclusively for Record Store Day as well as selected digital platforms.
The recordings were written and produced at Eno's studios in West London and Norfolk and is available HERE.
FOREVER VOICELESS
Produced by Brian Eno. Post-producer – Leo Abrahams.
TRACKLISTINGS:
Vinyl:
A Thought
And Let It In
Who Are We
Crystal Light
Inclusion
Bells Above
Chéri
Hardly Me
Small Noise
Silence
Digital:
Vocal Album:
Who Gives A Thought
We Let It In
Icarus Or Blériot
Garden Of Stars
Inclusion
There Were Bells
Sherry
I’m Hardly Me
These Small Noises
Making Gardens Out Of Silence
Instrumental album:
A Thought
And Let It In
Who Are We
Crystal Light
Inclusion
Bells Above
Chéri
Hardly Me
Small Noise
Silence
All instruments by brian eno except where noted
a thought • guitar leo abrahams
who are we • guitar leo abrahams
crystal light • guitar leo abrahams / accordion roger eno
keyboards peter chilvers
inclusion • violin & viola marina moore
bells above • guitar leo abrahams / accordion roger eno
chéri • guitar leo abrahams
small noise • keyboard jon hopkins / guitar leo abrahams
produced by brian eno
post-producer: leo abrahams
all compositions by brian eno except
a thought by brian eno & the earth
and let it in and hardly me by brian eno & darla eno
small noise by brian eno & jon hopkins
software development & technology design
peter chilvers / eccentric instruments
design & imagery nick robertson
cover & atmospherics nick robertson & brian eno
mastered by christian wright at abbey road studio
Album Artwork by Nick Robertson
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