With Earth Day coming up in a few days, Brian Eno has called on Mother Nature to give David Bowie’s 1995 deep cut “Get Real” a unique twist using environmental sounds. The remix has been released as part of a global music initiative called Sounds Right, which has made Nature an official artist on streaming platforms to raise money for earth conservation.
Thanks to Sounds Right, a share of royalties from any song that credits Nature as an artist will go to EarthPercent, a charity founded by Eno. The organization will then distribute that money to conservation and restoration projects in the world’s “most precious and precarious ecosystems” under the guidance of the Sounds Right Expert Advisory Panel, a group of world-leading biologists, environmental activists, Indigenous People’s representatives, and experts in conservation funding.
“Throughout my life I’ve wondered — how I can return something to the places I’ve taken ideas from?...
Thanks to Sounds Right, a share of royalties from any song that credits Nature as an artist will go to EarthPercent, a charity founded by Eno. The organization will then distribute that money to conservation and restoration projects in the world’s “most precious and precarious ecosystems” under the guidance of the Sounds Right Expert Advisory Panel, a group of world-leading biologists, environmental activists, Indigenous People’s representatives, and experts in conservation funding.
“Throughout my life I’ve wondered — how I can return something to the places I’ve taken ideas from?...
- 4/18/2024
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
Brian Eno will release the soundtrack to his groundbreaking, experimental documentary Eno on April 19, Rolling Stone can exclusively announce. The prolific producer also shared the first track from the album, the nearly-six-minute, industrial and jazzy unreleased instrumental track titled “Lighthouse #429.”
The album features 17 tracks spanning Eno’s entire musical career, from his early work in the Seventies to his 2022 album Foreverandevernomore. The Eno soundtrack will also feature three previously unreleased songs, including “Lighthouse #429.” As the track’s title suggests, the single comes from Eno’s Sonos Radio Station “The Lighthouse,...
The album features 17 tracks spanning Eno’s entire musical career, from his early work in the Seventies to his 2022 album Foreverandevernomore. The Eno soundtrack will also feature three previously unreleased songs, including “Lighthouse #429.” As the track’s title suggests, the single comes from Eno’s Sonos Radio Station “The Lighthouse,...
- 2/19/2024
- by Ethan Millman
- Rollingstone.com
Sundance award-winner Kneecap, The Outrun and Layla are among nine titles to receive the latest round of UK Global Screen Fund awards (Ukgsf), totalling £129,498 through its international distribution strand.
Administered by the British Film Institute (BFI), 66 awards totalling more than £2m have now been given out by this strand, financed through the UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms).
Financial support for international distribution provides sales agents and producers with funding via three tracks – film sales, prints & advertising (P&a) and festival launch.
Rich Peppiatt’s Irish-language hip-hop drama Kneecap won the Next audience award at Sundance after...
Administered by the British Film Institute (BFI), 66 awards totalling more than £2m have now been given out by this strand, financed through the UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms).
Financial support for international distribution provides sales agents and producers with funding via three tracks – film sales, prints & advertising (P&a) and festival launch.
Rich Peppiatt’s Irish-language hip-hop drama Kneecap won the Next audience award at Sundance after...
- 2/8/2024
- ScreenDaily
Editor’s note: Following the publishing of our review, we received word from Brenden Dawes, who developed the generative system used by the filmmakers of Eno, that while the film teases the possibilities of AI and generative technology in an art practice, the film itself consists entirely of filmed new and archival materials with no AI-generated content.
A film of infinite possibilities thanks in part to a generative AI hook, Gary Hustwit’s Eno is partially a straightforward biopic featuring interviews and archival footage with composer Brian Eno, the experiential musician and artist whose credits include playing the synthesizer in Roxy Music to creating the start-up sound for Windows PCs. The film is assembled at random, with a set beginning and ending, inspired seemingly by a deck of “Oblique Strategies” cards that Eno and David Bowie used to create tension and contractions within their collaborations.
Of course, Eno is not...
A film of infinite possibilities thanks in part to a generative AI hook, Gary Hustwit’s Eno is partially a straightforward biopic featuring interviews and archival footage with composer Brian Eno, the experiential musician and artist whose credits include playing the synthesizer in Roxy Music to creating the start-up sound for Windows PCs. The film is assembled at random, with a set beginning and ending, inspired seemingly by a deck of “Oblique Strategies” cards that Eno and David Bowie used to create tension and contractions within their collaborations.
Of course, Eno is not...
- 1/25/2024
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
For American Gen X’ers of a certain stripe, Chris Smith’s “Devo” is a trip through time, but even viewers unfamiliar with the deadpan music group are likely to emerge as loyal converts. A zippy, zany, whip(it)-smart documentary, it details the formation of Ohio’s New Wave enfants terribles — and is also the far superior of the two Sundance docs this year to feature U2 producer Brian Eno (albeit in a much smaller role than in “Eno”).
Smith sets the stage via sit-down interview by letting the group’s key founders — Gerald “Jerry” Casale and “Rugrats” composer Mark Mothersbaugh — detail not only their initial meeting in 1970, but the era’s political frustrations too, out of which Devo would soon be born. From the Vietnam War abroad, to the Kent State Shooting on their own campus, Casale and Mothersbaugh sought to channel their frustrations, and their tongue-in-cheek perspective...
Smith sets the stage via sit-down interview by letting the group’s key founders — Gerald “Jerry” Casale and “Rugrats” composer Mark Mothersbaugh — detail not only their initial meeting in 1970, but the era’s political frustrations too, out of which Devo would soon be born. From the Vietnam War abroad, to the Kent State Shooting on their own campus, Casale and Mothersbaugh sought to channel their frustrations, and their tongue-in-cheek perspective...
- 1/23/2024
- by Siddhant Adlakha
- Indiewire
Update: By Saturday afternoon up to five buyers were understood to be in serious discussions for Jeff Zimbalist’s documentary Skywalkers: A Love Story.
The film caused a stir ever since it premiered on Thursday night and hails from XYZ Films’ documentary division. Sources reported streamers and at least one theatrical buyer were in pursuit.
Meanwhile interest was understood to be building rapidly following the Saturday premiere of Jesse Eisenberg’s US Dramatic Competition entry A Real Pain.
Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin star as cousins on an emotional tour to see their late grandmother’s home in Poland. WME Independent...
The film caused a stir ever since it premiered on Thursday night and hails from XYZ Films’ documentary division. Sources reported streamers and at least one theatrical buyer were in pursuit.
Meanwhile interest was understood to be building rapidly following the Saturday premiere of Jesse Eisenberg’s US Dramatic Competition entry A Real Pain.
Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin star as cousins on an emotional tour to see their late grandmother’s home in Poland. WME Independent...
- 1/20/2024
- ScreenDaily
Heading into the weekend Skywalkers: A Love Story is gathering momentum at Sundance with multiple buyers circling the documentary following a strong response at Thursday night’s world premiere.
The groundswell of interest comes hot on the heels of two early transactions announced on Friday, with Sony Pictures Classics closing a deal for North America and multiple territories on Rich Peppiatt’s Next entry Kneecap and Netflix taking World Cinema Documentary Competition selection Ibelin by The Painter And The Thief director Benjamin Ree.
XYZ Films executives were on Friday locked in discussions with streamers and more traditional documentary distributors on Jeff Zimbalist’s U.
The groundswell of interest comes hot on the heels of two early transactions announced on Friday, with Sony Pictures Classics closing a deal for North America and multiple territories on Rich Peppiatt’s Next entry Kneecap and Netflix taking World Cinema Documentary Competition selection Ibelin by The Painter And The Thief director Benjamin Ree.
XYZ Films executives were on Friday locked in discussions with streamers and more traditional documentary distributors on Jeff Zimbalist’s U.
- 1/20/2024
- ScreenDaily
A severe miscalculation lies at the heart of “Eno,” Gary Hustwit’s well intentioned, choose-your-own-adventure style documentary about U2 producer and ambient music legend Brian Eno. In keeping with the esoteric composer’s M.O. for crafting ambient music, which often involves the programmed evolution of sounds through software, Hustwit’s long-in-the-works experiment takes advantage of a randomizing program that re-orders several of its scenes and images, so that no two viewings are the same. Perhaps there is some ideal version of the movie out there — statistically, there would have to be — but this review is specific to its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, which exposes a number of its conceptual flaws, and the multitude of ways even future screenings of the movie are likely to go wrong.
As seen in the film, Eno crafts acoustic parameters for his synthesized sounds to self-propagate, resulting in haunting, esoteric soundscapes that remain unclassifiable,...
As seen in the film, Eno crafts acoustic parameters for his synthesized sounds to self-propagate, resulting in haunting, esoteric soundscapes that remain unclassifiable,...
- 1/20/2024
- by Siddhant Adlakha
- Indiewire
There’s a reason music legend Brian Eno has never been the subject of a music documentary: He thinks they’re rubbish.
“I always find them frustrating,” said Eno, zooming into the post-screening Q&a at the January 18 premiere of “Eno,” which is, in fact, a documentary about the musician. “Any documentary I’ve ever seen about anybody I know, I thought has missed out [on] most of the interesting things about them.”
Eno’s larger problem with biography, whether it’s a movie or book, is that even the good ones “trace a sort of single chronological path through and make everything follow from each other.”
Veteran documentary director and producer Gary Hustwit shared Eno’s concerns. So this was his pitch: The documentary would be a different film every time it screened. Rather than the filmmaker making the connections between different aspects of Eno’s life, art, and ideas, digital...
“I always find them frustrating,” said Eno, zooming into the post-screening Q&a at the January 18 premiere of “Eno,” which is, in fact, a documentary about the musician. “Any documentary I’ve ever seen about anybody I know, I thought has missed out [on] most of the interesting things about them.”
Eno’s larger problem with biography, whether it’s a movie or book, is that even the good ones “trace a sort of single chronological path through and make everything follow from each other.”
Veteran documentary director and producer Gary Hustwit shared Eno’s concerns. So this was his pitch: The documentary would be a different film every time it screened. Rather than the filmmaker making the connections between different aspects of Eno’s life, art, and ideas, digital...
- 1/19/2024
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
You can never step in the same river twice. And, unless you are blessed with an infinite amount of patience, time, and mortality, you can never see the same version of the Sundance documentary Eno twice.
This is by design. Brian Eno — former Roxy Music member, legendary recording producer, Berlin-era Bowie bestie, ambient music pioneer, and a man who rocked a Seventies kimono like no other — is not someone who likes dwelling on the past or being pinned down. The idea of a movie chronicling his 50-year career behind the keyboards and mixing boards,...
This is by design. Brian Eno — former Roxy Music member, legendary recording producer, Berlin-era Bowie bestie, ambient music pioneer, and a man who rocked a Seventies kimono like no other — is not someone who likes dwelling on the past or being pinned down. The idea of a movie chronicling his 50-year career behind the keyboards and mixing boards,...
- 1/19/2024
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Hollywood decamps for Park City this week, braving snow drifts and thin air in a quest to find the next indie breakouts, Oscar contenders and buzzy horror hits.
Yes, Sundance has returned in all its mountain-side glory, and with it comes the expectation that with enough tenacity and some big checks, studios and streamers will land the next “Little Miss Sunshine,” “Brooklyn,” “Manchester by the Sea” or “The Big Sick” (to rattle off just a few of the festival films that have sparked all-night bidding wars).
Of course, not every heated battle for the next big Sundance-bred hit leads to commercial success and Oscar glory (“Hamlet 2” or “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” know a bit about that). Even some of the 2023 films that landed major deals, such as John Carney’s “Flora and Son” or the Anne Hathaway-led “Eileen,” received a muted reception when they made...
Yes, Sundance has returned in all its mountain-side glory, and with it comes the expectation that with enough tenacity and some big checks, studios and streamers will land the next “Little Miss Sunshine,” “Brooklyn,” “Manchester by the Sea” or “The Big Sick” (to rattle off just a few of the festival films that have sparked all-night bidding wars).
Of course, not every heated battle for the next big Sundance-bred hit leads to commercial success and Oscar glory (“Hamlet 2” or “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” know a bit about that). Even some of the 2023 films that landed major deals, such as John Carney’s “Flora and Son” or the Anne Hathaway-led “Eileen,” received a muted reception when they made...
- 1/18/2024
- by Brent Lang, Rebecca Rubin and Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
The life and accomplishments of Brian Eno are prodigious enough to fill several films, but until hearing the pitch for “Eno,” the composer, producer, self-professed “non-musician” and visual artist associated with groups including Roxy Music and U2 was resistant to be the focus of even one. “I usually can’t stand docu-bios of artists because they are so hagiographic,” Eno says.
Rather than charting a chronological path through Eno’s career, documentarian Gary Hustwit proposed using generative artificial intelligence to create a film that would literally be different for every audience that screened it. “The use of randomness to pattern the layout of the film seemed likely to override any hagiographic impulses,” Eno says.
Hustwit and Eno had collaborated before; Eno scored the filmmaker’s 2018 documentary “Rams,” about German industrial designer Dieter Rams. By the time he turned his attention to “Eno,” however, Hustwit had grown restless with the traditional...
Rather than charting a chronological path through Eno’s career, documentarian Gary Hustwit proposed using generative artificial intelligence to create a film that would literally be different for every audience that screened it. “The use of randomness to pattern the layout of the film seemed likely to override any hagiographic impulses,” Eno says.
Hustwit and Eno had collaborated before; Eno scored the filmmaker’s 2018 documentary “Rams,” about German industrial designer Dieter Rams. By the time he turned his attention to “Eno,” however, Hustwit had grown restless with the traditional...
- 1/16/2024
- by Todd Gilchrist
- Variety Film + TV
The classic rock genre would look drastically different today if not for The Beatles. Heck, 21st-century pop music wouldn’t be what it is without the Fab Four. They became trendsetters and tastemakers when they became international stars in 1964. Even the English language changed because of their influence. That’s why The Beatles’ AI song seems like a desperate move to remain relevant.
The Beatles making an AI song seems like a play to show they’re still cutting edge
Paul McCartney announced The Beatles’ AI song in June 2023 and planned to release it later the same year. Macca planned to use computer technology to lift John Lennon’s voice from a well-worn demo tape for “Now and Then” and finish the song with help from artificial intelligence.
The die-hard fans will surely eat it up. The bank accounts of Paul, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono, and Olivia Harrison stand to benefit.
The Beatles making an AI song seems like a play to show they’re still cutting edge
Paul McCartney announced The Beatles’ AI song in June 2023 and planned to release it later the same year. Macca planned to use computer technology to lift John Lennon’s voice from a well-worn demo tape for “Now and Then” and finish the song with help from artificial intelligence.
The die-hard fans will surely eat it up. The bank accounts of Paul, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono, and Olivia Harrison stand to benefit.
- 6/16/2023
- by Jason Rossi
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Over the years, Brian Eno has shared expansive and immersive bodies of solo work that he’s never taken on the road. He’s landed on the occasional festival lineup, occasionally toured with other artists, and even played a few one-offs. But only now is he preparing to complete a full tour all on his own. Eno’s latest endeavor, a concert series titled Ships, will bring him across Europe for five shows later this year.
The run will center around his 2016 solo album The Ship, which features a 21-minute...
The run will center around his 2016 solo album The Ship, which features a 21-minute...
- 6/5/2023
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
The Southbank Centre today announces that legendary composer, producer and musician Brian Eno will perform his new live concert programme, ‘Ships’, in a UK exclusive on Monday 30 October with two performances, 6.30pm and 9pm. The date is part of a series of concerts which marks Brian Eno’s first live tour in his five decade solo career and also his first appearance with an orchestra.
Originally commissioned by La Biennale di Venezia, Eno will perform ‘Ships’, premiering at the 2023 Venice Biennale Musica this coming October. Eno will be performing together with the Baltic Sea Philharmonic, orchestrated and conducted by Kristjan Järvi. The performance will also feature the actor Peter Serafinowicz, and long-time collaborators, guitarist Leo Abrahams and programmer/ keyboardist, Peter Chilvers. The centrepiece of these concerts will be an orchestral adaptation of Eno’s acclaimed 2016 album, ‘The Ship’, as well as new and classic Eno compositions.
Commenting on the tour,...
Originally commissioned by La Biennale di Venezia, Eno will perform ‘Ships’, premiering at the 2023 Venice Biennale Musica this coming October. Eno will be performing together with the Baltic Sea Philharmonic, orchestrated and conducted by Kristjan Järvi. The performance will also feature the actor Peter Serafinowicz, and long-time collaborators, guitarist Leo Abrahams and programmer/ keyboardist, Peter Chilvers. The centrepiece of these concerts will be an orchestral adaptation of Eno’s acclaimed 2016 album, ‘The Ship’, as well as new and classic Eno compositions.
Commenting on the tour,...
- 6/5/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
Coldplay have spent the last year working to make their “Music of the Spheres World Tour” more sustainable, and per a new Billboard report, the results are in. In addition to reducing their carbon footprint by nearly 50% since their last tour, the band has planted 5 million trees as they’ve traveled the world playing music.
The band have pledged to plant one tree for every ticket sold to the tour, as well as cut their carbon emissions in half compared to their 2016-2017 “Head Full of Dreams Tour.” In a statement, they said the “Music of the Spheres World Tour” has produced 47% less emissions from show production, freight, and band and crew travel. The data was independently assessed by MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative professor John E. Fernandez.
Looking ahead, Coldplay revealed the ways in which they hope to keep improving their sustainability practices. “Now that we’re into the second year of the tour,...
The band have pledged to plant one tree for every ticket sold to the tour, as well as cut their carbon emissions in half compared to their 2016-2017 “Head Full of Dreams Tour.” In a statement, they said the “Music of the Spheres World Tour” has produced 47% less emissions from show production, freight, and band and crew travel. The data was independently assessed by MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative professor John E. Fernandez.
Looking ahead, Coldplay revealed the ways in which they hope to keep improving their sustainability practices. “Now that we’re into the second year of the tour,...
- 6/4/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
U.K. dance producer Fred again.. is in a period of reinvention, and the whole world is watching. Frederick John Philip Gibson came up doing behind the scenes work for artists including Ed Sheeran and Rita Ora in the late 2010s, before quickly making a name for himself as a ludicrously speedy sample chopper. Just a few years into his career he’s already one of the buzziest DJs in the world, with a sonic formula that uses snippets collected from everyday life to infuse house music with a personable...
- 5/5/2023
- by Ted Davis
- Rollingstone.com
Peter Gabriel creates a slow-building metaphor for radical terrorism on “Four Kinds of Horses,” the latest single he’s released from his upcoming album, i/o.
On the song, which made its debut Friday as a remix (the “Bright-Side Mix,” by Mark “Spike” Stent), he sings, “Your mind is made up so certain what is right/But when they ordered everything/Will they see you were born so bright.” The music, which features some keys courtesy of Brian Eno, feels atmospheric, swirling and sparkling around Gabriel’s voice. Different mixes...
On the song, which made its debut Friday as a remix (the “Bright-Side Mix,” by Mark “Spike” Stent), he sings, “Your mind is made up so certain what is right/But when they ordered everything/Will they see you were born so bright.” The music, which features some keys courtesy of Brian Eno, feels atmospheric, swirling and sparkling around Gabriel’s voice. Different mixes...
- 5/5/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
May 5th marks another full moon, thus Peter Gabriel has shared another new single. This time, it’s “Four Kinds of Horses,” a cut from his upcoming album i/o. Named after the eponymous Buddhist parable, the track features Brian Eno on synthesizer as well as Gabriel’s daughter Melanie on backing vocals.
The mellow and moody “Four Kinds of Horses” explores “the interesting overlap of religion and peace on the one hand and violence and terrorism on the other.” In a press release, Gabriel explains how the song came together with co-producer Richard Russell, founder of Xl Records.
“I came up with some chords, melodies and words on top of a groove he was working on,” Gabriel says. “We tried a few things that didn’t altogether work and so it lay dormant for quite a while. Then I started playing around with it again and changed the mood...
The mellow and moody “Four Kinds of Horses” explores “the interesting overlap of religion and peace on the one hand and violence and terrorism on the other.” In a press release, Gabriel explains how the song came together with co-producer Richard Russell, founder of Xl Records.
“I came up with some chords, melodies and words on top of a groove he was working on,” Gabriel says. “We tried a few things that didn’t altogether work and so it lay dormant for quite a while. Then I started playing around with it again and changed the mood...
- 5/5/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Brian Eno and Fred again.. have cooked up a collaborative album called Secret Life that’s out today via Four Tet’s Text Records. Stream the album, along with a secret three-hour version, below.
Four Tet announced Secret Life on social media, calling it “the most beautiful album of 2023.” The project is also available on CD and vinyl. Additionally, he revealed a Secret Life radio station that “has been broadcasting every day for a while at 10:00 p.m. UK time.”
The record isn’t the first collaboration between Fred again.. and Eno. The DJ grew up next to Eno, and as a teenager, he joined an a cappella group at the producer’s studio. The two artists worked together professionally for the first time in 2014, when Fred Again.. worked as a songwriter on Eno and Karl Hyde’s albums Someday World and High Life. Fred again.. also served as co-producer on the former project.
Four Tet announced Secret Life on social media, calling it “the most beautiful album of 2023.” The project is also available on CD and vinyl. Additionally, he revealed a Secret Life radio station that “has been broadcasting every day for a while at 10:00 p.m. UK time.”
The record isn’t the first collaboration between Fred again.. and Eno. The DJ grew up next to Eno, and as a teenager, he joined an a cappella group at the producer’s studio. The two artists worked together professionally for the first time in 2014, when Fred Again.. worked as a songwriter on Eno and Karl Hyde’s albums Someday World and High Life. Fred again.. also served as co-producer on the former project.
- 5/5/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
The year of Fred Again.. and Four Tet is still going strong. On Tuesday, Four Tet announced plans for the May 5 release of a new collaborative album with Fred Again.. through his label Text Records — though it won’t be himself working alongside the producer on the record, but rather Brian Eno.
“The album Secret Life by Fred again and Brian Eno is coming out on my label Text Records on Friday,” Four Tet tweeted. “It is the most beautiful album of 2023.”
There’s also a Secret Life radio station that the trio has created,...
“The album Secret Life by Fred again and Brian Eno is coming out on my label Text Records on Friday,” Four Tet tweeted. “It is the most beautiful album of 2023.”
There’s also a Secret Life radio station that the trio has created,...
- 5/2/2023
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
This article contains spoilers for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is the incredible continuation of Jedi Cal Kestis’ Fallen Order adventures. Now a little older, much more powerful, and significantly wiser, Cal Kestis embarks upon a journey that (try to be surprised) eventually thrusts the fate of the galaxy into his hands.
Whether you have unanswered questions about Cal’s story or you just want to know how the whole thing ends, here’s a rundown of Jedi: Survivor‘s final moments and what they mean for the franchise moving forward.
Jedi Survivor: The Story So Far
Before we dive too deep into Survivor‘s ending, let’s do a brief recap of the events that lead to it.
Following a failed heist/kidnapping job on Coruscant, Cal Kestis and his crew are forced to escape the capital planet. Only Cal and his new friend Bode Akuna...
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is the incredible continuation of Jedi Cal Kestis’ Fallen Order adventures. Now a little older, much more powerful, and significantly wiser, Cal Kestis embarks upon a journey that (try to be surprised) eventually thrusts the fate of the galaxy into his hands.
Whether you have unanswered questions about Cal’s story or you just want to know how the whole thing ends, here’s a rundown of Jedi: Survivor‘s final moments and what they mean for the franchise moving forward.
Jedi Survivor: The Story So Far
Before we dive too deep into Survivor‘s ending, let’s do a brief recap of the events that lead to it.
Following a failed heist/kidnapping job on Coruscant, Cal Kestis and his crew are forced to escape the capital planet. Only Cal and his new friend Bode Akuna...
- 4/28/2023
- by Matthew Byrd
- Den of Geek
Michael Stipe, Chvrches, and Coldplay are just a few of over 60 artists who’ve contributed to the 2023 iteration of EarthPercent’s annual Earth Day compilation album. Proceeds will benefit the Brian Eno-founded charity’s grant giving program, which directly benefits organizations fighting the ongoing climate crisis.
Stipe — a frequent eco-advocate — contributes the track “Give Me a Hand,” a moody art-pop number featuring guest vocals from folk singer and disability advocate Gaelynn Lea. Meanwhile, Chvrches reunite with their pal Robert Smith of The Cure for a rendition of their song “How Not to Drown,” recorded live at the Brixton Academy. Coldplay tap H.E.R. for another live track, this one being their ballad “Let Somebody Go” at the River Plate.
Also featured on the compilation are Eno, Dry Cleaning, dodie, Bring Me the Horizon, Julia Holter, Mystery Jets, and many more. Stream the album via Bandcamp below.
Eno and Stipe also...
Stipe — a frequent eco-advocate — contributes the track “Give Me a Hand,” a moody art-pop number featuring guest vocals from folk singer and disability advocate Gaelynn Lea. Meanwhile, Chvrches reunite with their pal Robert Smith of The Cure for a rendition of their song “How Not to Drown,” recorded live at the Brixton Academy. Coldplay tap H.E.R. for another live track, this one being their ballad “Let Somebody Go” at the River Plate.
Also featured on the compilation are Eno, Dry Cleaning, dodie, Bring Me the Horizon, Julia Holter, Mystery Jets, and many more. Stream the album via Bandcamp below.
Eno and Stipe also...
- 4/20/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
What a year for music—any of my top half-dozen or so could have been Number One some other year. But these are my faves, with pop idols, guitar bangers, rap poets, disco visionaries. All these albums keep giving up new surprises for me. The double-digit years are always pivotal for music—’66, ’77, ’88, ’99 were four of the coolest music years ever. (’11 and ’55 were bangers, too. Y2K wasn’t so hot, but at least it had a kick-ass Madonna album.) 2022 felt more like Neil Young’s 22 than Taylor Swift’s, but...
- 12/22/2022
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
A version of this story about “Moonage Daydream” first appeared in the Guild & Critics Awards/Documentaries issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
Brett Morgen’s previous documentaries have covered such notable figures as Kurt Cobain (“Montage of Heck”), Robert Evans (“The Kid Stays in the Picture”), Jane Goodall (“Jane”) and the Rolling Stones (“Crossfire Hurricane”). He tackles another titanic figure in “Moonage Daydream” for which he spent years venturing through the exhaustive archives of the late David Bowie.
Rather than following a standard biographical path, the film is structured as an assaultive and immersive IMAX-scaled fantasia. You’ll probably learn something about Bowie, but mostly you’ll experience him.
This is a documentary about David Bowie, but it’s not really a documentary about David Bowie. It’s an immersion into the world of David Bowie, I guess.
Yeah. Saying “a documentary about David Bowie” would be setting up a...
Brett Morgen’s previous documentaries have covered such notable figures as Kurt Cobain (“Montage of Heck”), Robert Evans (“The Kid Stays in the Picture”), Jane Goodall (“Jane”) and the Rolling Stones (“Crossfire Hurricane”). He tackles another titanic figure in “Moonage Daydream” for which he spent years venturing through the exhaustive archives of the late David Bowie.
Rather than following a standard biographical path, the film is structured as an assaultive and immersive IMAX-scaled fantasia. You’ll probably learn something about Bowie, but mostly you’ll experience him.
This is a documentary about David Bowie, but it’s not really a documentary about David Bowie. It’s an immersion into the world of David Bowie, I guess.
Yeah. Saying “a documentary about David Bowie” would be setting up a...
- 12/6/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Celebrated French electronic artist Jean-Michel Jarre has enlisted Brian Eno’s help for a reworking of his Oxymore song, “Epica.”
“Epica Extension” boasts a bustling breakbeat as the drums drive ahead over an array of pulsing synths and a lead loop that sounds like it’s coming from some uncanny choral singer. In fact, “Epica Extension” carries a lot of the same propulsive energy as the original track, which Jarre wasn’t exactly expecting when he reached out to Eno.
“When I started ‘Epica,’ I immediately thought that Brian Eno...
“Epica Extension” boasts a bustling breakbeat as the drums drive ahead over an array of pulsing synths and a lead loop that sounds like it’s coming from some uncanny choral singer. In fact, “Epica Extension” carries a lot of the same propulsive energy as the original track, which Jarre wasn’t exactly expecting when he reached out to Eno.
“When I started ‘Epica,’ I immediately thought that Brian Eno...
- 11/18/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
On the final night of their first American tour in over two decades, art rock pioneers Roxy Music started at the beginning. They appeared on stage at The Forum in Los Angeles and launched straight into “Re-Make/Re-Model”, the eclectic, experimental song that opened their self-titled debut album in 1972. Behind them, towering screens showed the band as they looked soon after forming in London a year earlier, in all their youthful glam glory: Rakish frontman Bryan Ferry in tiger print, with cheekbones that could cut glass. Synthesizer wizard Brian Eno with his long blonde mullet, looking like Riff-Raff in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
This reunion tour, which arrives in the UK for Glasgow, Manchester and London shows in October, is timed to mark the 50th anniversary of that first Roxy record. While Eno is not present, having moved on to his own projects as early as 1973, the intervening half-century...
This reunion tour, which arrives in the UK for Glasgow, Manchester and London shows in October, is timed to mark the 50th anniversary of that first Roxy record. While Eno is not present, having moved on to his own projects as early as 1973, the intervening half-century...
- 9/30/2022
- by Kevin E G Perry
- The Independent - Music
Brian Eno has announced his new album ForeverAndEverNoMore, the ambient pioneer and producer extraordinaire’s first LP featuring mostly songs with vocals in nearly 17 years.
Ahead of the album’s Oct. 14 release, Eno has shared the funereal first single “There Were Bells,” a track that he premiered during a performance at the Acropolis in Athens in Aug. 2021 on a day where a heatwave and wildfires besieged the city. “I thought, here we are at the birthplace of Western civilization, probably witnessing the end of it,” Eno quipped at the time,...
Ahead of the album’s Oct. 14 release, Eno has shared the funereal first single “There Were Bells,” a track that he premiered during a performance at the Acropolis in Athens in Aug. 2021 on a day where a heatwave and wildfires besieged the city. “I thought, here we are at the birthplace of Western civilization, probably witnessing the end of it,” Eno quipped at the time,...
- 7/28/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
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