BRIAN ENO & BEATIE WOLFE
Liminal VERVE The third in the duo’s triptych is a triumph.
Rightly or wrongly, many associate Brian Eno with minimalism. Yet there’s nothing minimalist about releasing three albums in under six months, as he’s done with the recent Lateral and Luminol.
It’s a strangely warm, inviting space.
The final work in the trilogy recorded with conceptual artist Beatie Wolfe (a very effective, understated singer) is a remarkable conjuring trick. Firstly it completes that trilogy, subtly referencing elements of the previous two works and casting them in a new light. But it has an individual soft power beyond this. Without ever doing anything so gauche as straining to be emotive, it somehow conveys all manner of emotions, and takes the listener to spellbinding, half-glimpsed, half-recognised places.