In regards to „Luminal“, surely one the most beautiful, haunting and seductive song albums of 2025, there is only one reason I don‘t come up with the minor quibble that Brian Eno isn‘t doing the lead vocals, and that is the voice of Beatie Wolfe! (Michael Engelbrecht, Deutschlandfunk, Klanghorizonte, May 29th, 2025)


Sequence matters. The first three albums all circling around a world disintegrating, in danger of falling apart. On his best album ever, William Tyler keeps an ear on remains of beauty. The last three albums deal with the heritage of Don Cherry. Thanks to Richard Williams reminding me of Mr. Cherry’s buried treasure. Two „far out fusion“-albums from the first half of the 70‘s are framing the central „Brian-and-Beatie“-passage of „dream and space music“. (By the way, Beatie Wolfe has written the lyrics and sings on „Luminal“, and she has a way with words, believe me! Brian Eno does the background vocals on every song. In addition, both play all kinds of instruments.) That it will finally happen this way, depends on three interviews (in preparation). I hope it will be time enough left for the „surprise track“ that stands apart of all topics mentioned above!

01 William Tyler: Time Indefinite
02 Eiko Isibashi: Antigone
03 Bennie Maupin: The Jewel In The Lotus (1974)

04 Beatie Wolfe & Brian Eno: Breath March, from: Luminal
05 Beatie Wolfe & Brian Eno: Lateral (excerpt)
06 Beatie Wolfe & Brian Eno: Play On, from: Luminal

07 Don Cherry: The Relativity Suite (1971)*
08 Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari: Journey to Nabta Playa
09 Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas: Totality

10 Coda: Surprise Track

* „Wherever, whenever and by whomsoever the idea of “world music” was invented, it had no finer exponent, explorer and exemplar than Don Cherry. In a few months’ time it will be 30 years since Cherry died in Malaga of liver cancer, aged 58, leaving a world in which he was, to quote Steve Lake’s happy phrase, “a trumpet-playing lyric poet of the open road, whose very life was a free-flowing improvisation.” I suppose it was fitting that he should have died in Andalucia, a region where many cultural influences met in the Middle Ages to create a foundation of song.“ (Richard Williams, The Blue Moment)