Roger And Brian Eno To Release First Duo Album, ‘Mixing Colours', March 20

Following the announcement of Roger and Brian Eno’s new album, Mixing Colours – due for international release by Deutsche Grammophon on 20 March 2020 – the brothers have delivered a series of accompanying films. Produced and directed by Brian Eno and musician and software designer Peter Chilvers, these short films offer an enriching counterpart to seven of the album’s eighteen pieces. The videos for album tracks "Celeste", "Blonde" and "Slow Movement: Sand" have been made available on digital platforms over the past weeks.

Eno and Chilvers have worked together for many years, notably on interactive apps such as Bloom, Scape, Trope and, most recently, Bloom: 10 Worlds. Their films for Mixing Colours distil the album’s essence, marrying the simplicity and contemplative qualities of its soundscapes with suitably uncomplicated, mesmerising imagery of slowly-changing, dreamlike panoramas. Whether or not these settings are familiar, their impressionistic character lends them an enigmatic anonymity, encouraging the mind to wander into worlds both real and imagined. “The more you listen,” says Roger Eno, “particularly with the fabulous worlds that Brian has created, you can really walk into this enormous landscape and stay.”

“Nearly all of the work on this album was done on trains,” Brian says of his contribution to Mixing Colours. “I can sit there with my computer and headphones, and these pieces are absolutely perfect train music for me.” This working environment helped shape his and Chilvers’ films, representing another aspect of the creative exchange at the heart of the project. All but one of the recording’s eighteen tracks have colour-related titles, and several of them will now be accompanied by imagery that, in its use of contrast and shifting tonal shades, flawlessly mirrors Mixing Colours’ subtle, seductive aesthetic.

Mixing Colours represents the Eno brothers’ first album as a duo, and the first for either artist on Deutsche Grammophon. It will be released on 20 March 2020 in digital, vinyl and CD digipack formats.

About Roger & Brian Eno

Roger and Brian Eno have been recording music together since 1983. They first collaborated together with Daniel Lanois on 'For All Mankind’, the soundtrack to Al Reinert’s epic documentary about the Apollo moon landing. The music itself was released as the critically acclaimed and hugely popular album, 'Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks'. Further film work followed including the Prophecy Theme from the soundtrack to David Lynch’s Dune (1984) and pieces that were used in the soundtrack to Dario Argento’s Opera (1987). More recently they have collaborated on the score to Danny Boyle’s mini-TV series, Mr. Wroe’s Virgins (1993) and the Brazilian film, O Nome da Morte (2017). Together, Brian and Roger create music that is rich in atmosphere and which lends itself well to the medium of film and theatre. Having developed a harmonious and successful working relationship over the years, in 2005 they slowly began writing a body of work that has lead to their first complete album of recordings together - Mixing Colours.