Icebreaker/BJ Cole
Apollo: This is for all Mankind
Music by Brian Eno, Roger Eno and Daniel Lanois
Performed by Icebreaker and BJ Cole
Introductory talk by Brian Eno
Brighton Festival Exclusive
Last year, to mark the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Sound and Music premiered a new live arrangement of Brian Eno's Apollo at London's Science Museum. Now an expanded Icebreaker ensemble and British pedal steel player BJ Cole bring this seminal album to the live arena for two exclusive nights at Brighton Festival.
Widely regarded as one of his most influential albums, Apollo was created by Eno, his brother Roger and Canadian guitarist-producer Daniel Lanois. It was conceived with filmmaker Al Reinert, who later used it as the soundtrack to his lunar documentary For All Mankind (1989). Music from the album has also appeared in the films 28 Days Later, Traffic and Trainspotting.
This show returns the music to its original conception - a non-narrative counterpart to NASA footage from the Apollo programme. Performed live to Reinert's film, this unique multimedia experience is the final frontier for Eno's ambient music milestone.
British new music innovators Icebreaker have performed the works of some of the best-known and most influential names in contemporary music including Louis Andriessen, Philip Glass and Michael Gordon, who commissioned their 2004 collaboration with Wayne McGregor's Random Dance. Pedal steel guitar innovator BJ Cole has collaborated with everyone from Björk and Beck to Groove Armada and John Cale.
'Apollo's moonstruck ambience has aged gracefully, and ... [the] spare, fiercely intelligent orchestration gave it the bloom of youth.'
The Guardian
Catch the Sounds of Space: Eno, Apollo and Voyager show on Brightn Festival radio 87.7FM
Sat 1 May 8-10pm - Mark Higgins presents: The Sounds of Space: Eno, Apollo and Voyager - The Sounds of Space is an exploration into man's musical interactions beyond our atmosphere. On the eve of live performances of " Apollo: This is for all Mankind" at the Brighton Festival, Mark Higgins will be playing Brian Eno's original soundtrack in full. The show will also look at the Voyager Golden Record, launched into space in the 1970s to represent the earth to any intelligent life that might find it. With music all the way from Chuck Berry to Japanese gamelan, Mark will be looking at what world music really means in deep space.
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