Joep Beving, one of the world’s best-loved and most-streamed pianists, has written and recorded an album of brand-new material. Out on 20 March 2026 as a 2LP set on eco-vinyl – housed in a gatefold sleeve – Liminal was inspired by Guillaume Logé’s book Wild Renaissance, and joins its call for closer, more symbiotic connections between human activity and the natural world.

The book’s vision of a world in which men see nature as a creative partner spoke to Beving, encouraging him to write new works that could form part of a 21st-century Renaissance movement. “With this music,” he explains, “I wanted to explore our small but meaningful place in the bigger picture, stepping away from human-centered thinking and towards a way of creating ‘with’ nature, rather than apart from it.”

Together, the 15 tracks on Liminal expand into a realm of uncertainty. “Throughout the album, there’s a constant dialogue between control and intuition,” says Beving. “It reflects that in between space; the liminal zone where meaning is still forming.”

Tracklisting:

SIDE A

1. Through the Looking-Glass

2. Ida

3. We are here but to make music and dance with all the obtaining forces

4. Voda

SIDE B

1. Arcadia

2. From where one hears the willow speak

3. Wild Renaissance

4. Elysium

SIDE C

1. When humans do algorithms

2. Incantation in B-Flat Minor

3. Sfumato

SIDE D

1. Play

2. Heterotopia

3. Immanence

4. ghostly chicken