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“Once you finish your arrangement, remove two elements from it. Be brutal”: Why imposing hard limitations could be the secret to finishing more music

We’re all struggling to fit in music-making between our other time consuming responsibilities. Optimise your process by cutting back on the options

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“I just had to sit there, drink a bit, have a cigarette, wink at the band”: Why David Bowie ditched promoting Low and instead became Iggy Pop’s keyboard player

Bowie put helping his Berlin flatmate Iggy Pop first, with promo for one of his greatest ever albums falling by the wayside

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“Liminal is set in the borderlands between song and non-song (or ‘nong’ as we call it)": Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe’s new album in their own words

Apparently, new album contains 11 new ‘nongs’ "exploring an intimate and unfamiliar new sonic world"

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30 years since the launch of Windows 95, the 90s still has some of the best sonic branding

Here's how you can recreate it.

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Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe complete trilogy with upcoming LP Liminal

Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe's current sonic journey will conclude with the collection Liminal.

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Microsoft protest over Israel ties leads to 18 arrests at Redmond campus — police say protesters “became aggressive”

At least 18 protesters were arrested at Microsoft headquarters after police said the group became aggressive during Israel genocide protests.

Windows Central

“Festivals are being cancelled due to extreme weather, and grassroots venues are grappling with rising energy costs”: Brian Eno and others urge government to cancel new North Sea oilfield

New Rosebank field will “accelerate the climate crisis”, they argue

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A veteran Final Fantasy programmer hates how indie games deliberately recreate PS1 visual bugs he made 'many futile efforts' to fix: 'I just don’t get what’s so interesting about trying to replicate that'

The kiddies can't get enough affine texture warping these days.

PC Gamer

Bastille and Damon Albarn among artists announced for Brian Eno’s Palestine gig

The event will take place at the OVO Arena Wembley next month.

Evening Standard

Damon Albarn and Paloma Faith among artists playing Brian Eno’s Palestine fundraising concert

Event at London’s OVO Wembley Arena aims to raise vital funds for humanitarian relief in stricken Gaza

The Independent UK

Lineup announced for Palestine benefit concert at Wembley Arena, helmed by Brian Eno

Artists including Damon Albarn, Paloma Faith, Sampha and Jamie xx to perform alongside Palestinian artists at Together for Palestine on 17 September

The Guardian - UK

"This is a chance for us to stand together and say, 'This can’t continue'”: Brian Eno announces Wembley benefit concert for Palestine

Together For Palestine is at Wembley Arena on September 17

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"I felt out of place. That group didn't have much musical merit and I thought it was crap": The oddball career of Kevin Ayers, quintessential English songwriter

Kevin Ayers co-founded Soft Machine, influenced Bowie, shared acid trips and girlfriends with Hendrix, and knew Syd Barrett better than most

Louder

"As a transitional record, More Songs About Buildings And Food is extraordinary": Talking Heads' second album, expanded

Talking Heads' More Songs About Buildings And Food takes the existential blankness of European art-rock and filters it through a uniquely American lens

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Kneecap and Massive Attack launch pro-Palestine music alliance

Artists are joining together due to claims of ‘attempted censorship’ over Gaza war

Evening Standard

Kneecap and Brian Eno call on artists to join syndicate to support Palestine

The musicians said they will not stand by and allow other artists to be ‘threatened into silence or career cancellation’.

MusicRadar

“We won’t stand by and allow other artists be threatened into silence or career cancellation”: Massive Attack and Brian Eno announce grouping of pro-Palestinian artists

They aim to confront “aggressive, vexatious” campaigns of pro-Israeli lawyers

The Guardian - UK

Massive Attack announce alliance of musicians speaking out over Gaza

Brian Eno, Fontaines DC and Kneecap say group will support those subject to ‘aggressive, vexatious campaigns’ by pro-Israel advocates

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Microsoft shareholders call for review of ties to Israel — "In the face of serious allegations of complicity in genocide and other international crimes, Microsoft’s HRDD processes appear ineffective"

A shareholder resolution demands that Microsoft report on its human rights due diligence amid allegations about Azure and AI use by the Israeli government.

Louder

“We’d smoke a little dope then wander round Heathrow Airport at night. All these hums, knocks, and noises coming from behind locked doors – the whole airport was a musical instrument”: Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s prog credentials

Simon Jeffes described his musical pursuit of the precious irrational as “imaginary folklore.” His work intrigued Brian Eno and has lasted long beyond his lifetime. But was it prog?

The National (Scotland)

Frankie Boyle and Tilda Swinton call for Labour not to ban Palestine Action

Frankie Boyle and Tilda Swinton are among the celebrities calling for the ban against Palestine Action to be dropped and for the UK Government to…

Guitar World

“He’d already set everything up... The guitar was radically out of tune and the strings were virtually hanging off it”: Leo Abrahams on his Strat-wrestling initiation with Brian Eno, why he didn’t want to be famous, and what he learned from Paul Simon

The guitarist/producer has worked with Brett Anderson, Jarvis Cocker and Imogen Heap among others, but here he explains why his younger self might be slightly disappointed in his playing

Louder

“Perhaps the strangest recording session of the era”: Peter Gabriel, Robert Fripp, Sandy Denny, Phil Collins and the novelty single no one talks about

In 1975 some of the biggest names in prog became the backing band for comedian Charlie Drake to record the Gabriel-penned song You’ll Never Know. It was an utter flop

Louder

“No one else does this with such a lightness of touch yet such a definitive sense of purpose – a double victory”: Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe’s Luminal and Lateral

Stunning collaboration yields two albums that are different – while also, somehow, the same

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“Due to digital, music now has a terrible sort of housewifely tidiness. It's possible to fix absolutely everything”: Brian Eno on sonic perfectionism, Bowie and his new collaborative double album with Beatie Wolfe

We visit Brian Eno in the studio to find out more about Luminal and Lateral, a collaborative project with conceptual artist Beatie Wolfe

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