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Feb 25, 2014 Underworld By Mike Hilleary

Brian Eno has announced that he has teamed up with Underworld‘s Karl Hyde for a joint album titled Someday World. Produced by Eno with his 22 year old Fred Gibson, the new record is due out May 6 on Warp. “A lot of the nicer cities I know are cities built on hills, and the cities are beautiful because the buildings have a challenge to adapt to,” says Eno in a press release. “They have to mould themselves around the geology that they’ve formed upon. And that always makes for very interesting buildings, because they can’t just be blocks, they have to somehow morph around the environment. A lot of the constructions on the album were deliberately irregular and awkward. I had a big collection of ‘beginnings’ sitting around waiting for something to galvanise them into life, to make them more than just ‘experiments’. That something turned out to be Karl Hyde.”

Adds Hyde on the experience, “It’s a bit like being nine years old again. You have no idea what you’ve just been given, the record button has been pressed and you’re on. And then these unlikely patterns start to happen. The biggest surprise was discovering we both had a love of Afrobeat, Cyclical music based in live playing. When Brian played me these early tracks it was, ‘Oh my god, this is home! Can I borrow a guitar?’”

Someday World:

The Satellites
Daddy’s Car
A Man Wakes Up
Witness
Strip It Down
Mother Of A Dog
Who Rings The Bell
When I Built This World
To Us All

(www.brian-eno.net)