Brian Eno Revives Opal Records After 35 Years

The label returns with reissues of two long out-of-print albums, plus previously unreleased live footage.

Brian Eno is relaunching Opal Records, the label he founded in 1988 and shelved just three years later. The imprint returns on 16th October with reissues of two long out-of-print albums: 'Another Day on Earth' and 'Drawn From Life', the latter now billed jointly as Brian Eno & J. Peter Schwalm.

'Another Day on Earth' was Eno's first song-based record since 1992's 'Nerve Net', featuring a young Jon Hopkins alongside longtime collaborators Nell Catchpole, J. Peter Schwalm and Leo Abrahams, with lyrics co-written by Michel Faber and Danny Hillis. Track 'And Then So Clear' has quietly racked up over two million streams despite never having an official release outside Japan — this reissue marks the album's first availability across all formats in nearly two decades, and includes previously Japan-only bonus track 'The Demon of the Mines'.

'Drawn From Life', meanwhile, was a full collaboration with J. Peter Schwalm featuring Holger Czukay, Laurie Anderson, Nell Catchpole and Leo Abrahams, and also produced the score to Nicolas Winding Refn's early film Fear X. Both albums arrive on 16th October across all formats, with translucent coloured vinyl exclusives.

Ahead of the reissues, two previously unreleased live videos land today: 'Caught Between' from Porto Festival 2001, and 'Persis' from Fuji Rock Festival 2001.

The relaunch marks Opal's first activity since 1991 and arrives at a moment when the label's original outsider roster, including Harold Budd, Laraaji, Jon Hassell and Daniel Lanois, looks less like a fringe and more like a blueprint for where ambient music has ended up.

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