Sonos Radio HD now in 5 more countries (Austria, Canada, France, Germany and The Netherlands) having launched in the US and UK in November 2020. As part of the availability in these new territories they have launched a new station from Brian Eno with three hundred tracks on The Lighthouse.
A lifelong creator and innovator, Eno collaborated with Sonos Radio to design a new station format that explores his extensive archive of unreleased work. The Lighthouse will serve as a living collection where Eno will premiere both past and new musical projects directly to fans across the world, giving listeners rare insight into an illustrious career spanning more than 50 years of creating, producing and redefining music. The Lighthouse will bring this music exclusively to listeners of Sonos Radio HD, the ad-free, CD Quality tier of Sonos’ streaming service, Sonos Radio.
“The music that will be broadcast from The Lighthouse covers a pretty broad period,” explained Eno. “The earliest track we have at the moment is from 1990. We will be adding more pieces as time goes on. New pieces will be entering the mix and some of that will go back even further. You will be listening to a sequence of tracks which will be randomly generated, chosen by chance so there is the possibility of odd, I hope exciting collisions – things that are very slow next to things that are very fast next to things that have no tempo, no pulse at all.”
Over the coming months, Eno will host a series of three programmes related to The Lighthouse, starting with Programme 1, where he discusses the unreleased material and why he’s finally decided to dig into the archive and share it with the world. Programme 1 is available starting today on The Lighthouse on Sonos Radio HD and free to all Sonos customers through the in-app Sonos Sound System archive. Listeners everywhere can tune in on Mixcloud.
The ad-free Sonos Radio HD service delivers lossless CD Quality audio (16 bit/44.1kHz FLAC) and is available on their Sonos’ S2 app now. Subscriptions are $€ 7.99/ month after a free, one month trial. Listeners everywhere can tune-in to select Sonos Radio shows through Mixcloud. The ad-supported Sonos Radio service brings together 60,000 broadcast radio stations plus a range of original Sonos content in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Ireland, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Norway and Denmark.
