Brian Eno Publicizes First-Ever Solo Tour

For the primary time ever, Brian Eno is taking a dwell solo present on the highway. He’ll carry out a live performance program referred to as Ships throughout Europe this fall, constructed round 2016 album The Ship and that includes new and outdated compositions from his catalog. He can be backed by the Baltic Sea Philharmonic (with conductor Kristjan Järvi), the actor Peter Serafinowicz, and Eno’s longtime collaborators Leo Abrahams and Peter Chilvers. The run concludes with two exhibits in a single night time at London’s Southbank Centre on October 30; discover all of the dates—together with exhibits in Venice, Paris, Berlin, and Utrecht—under.

Regardless of touring with Roxy Music within the Nineteen Seventies and sporadically with different artists, Eno has solely performed sporadic, one-off solo exhibits, typically as a part of pageant packages. In 2021, he and his brother Roger Eno carried out live at the Acropolis.

In press supplies, Eno mentioned of the brand new tour:

The album The Ship is an uncommon piece in that it makes use of voice however doesn’t significantly depend on the music type. It’s an environment with occasional characters drifting by way of it, characters misplaced within the obscure house made by the music. There’s a way of wartime within the background, and a way of inevitability. There’s additionally a way of scale which fits an orchestra, and a way of many individuals working collectively. I wished an orchestra which performed music the best way I want to play music: from the center fairly than simply from the rating. I wished the gamers to be younger and contemporary and enthusiastic. After I first noticed the Baltic Sea Philharmonic I discovered all that…after which seen they had been named after a sea. That sealed it!

Learn Pitchfork’s overview of Eno’s recent album with Fred Again.. and, under, examine Eno and John Cale’s traditional “Lay My Love” in “The 250 Best Songs of the 1990s.”

Brian Eno:

10-21 Venice, Italy – Venice Biennale Musica, Teatro la Fenice (3 and eight p.m.)
10-24 Berlin, Germany – Philharmonie Berlin
10-26 Paris, France – La Seine Musicale
10-28 Utrecht, Netherlands – TivoliVredenburg
10-30 London, England – Royal Pageant Corridor, Southbank (6.30 and 9 p.m.)