Listen to Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe’s “Feeling of the Day” series on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic.

Earlier this month, KCRW announced a special collaborative radio project with ambient music pioneer Brian Eno and conceptual artist Beatie Wolfe following the release of their two collaborative albums Luminal and Lateral, released June 6th on Verve Records. Recorded in London and centered around the concept of “art, and feelings,” both albums feature original music and cover an array of genres/styles: Luminal being a vocal alternative album, and Lateral comprising of a continuous ambient work.

A continuation of the themes explored on the albums, “Feeling of the Day” is a series of daily radio spots, each representing a word for an emotion which lacks an analogous word in English. These will be aired throughout the month of June on KCRW’s flagship music program, Morning Becomes Eclectic. The spots will also be highlighted on KCRW’s Instagram and YouTube accounts.

Some of the words to be highlighted include:

Ailyak (Bulgarian)… going slow, enjoying the process
Commuovere (Italian)… the experience of being moved
Dor (Romanian)… longing or belonging
Duende (Spanish)… getting the shivers
Fèath (Gaelic)… stillness, peace
Gezelligheid (Dutch)… warm intimacy 
Ilinx (French)… strange excitement from play
Jijivisha (Sanskrit)… life lived fully
Liget (Filipino)… fiery energy, life spark
Merak (Serbian)… at one with the Universe
Meraki (Greek)… to pour yourself into something
Mono no aware (Japanese)… appreciation of life’s transience 
Onsra (Boro)… the anticipation of losing love
Pronoia (Greek)… the opposite of paranoia
Sisu (Finnish)… determination, grit
Torschlusspanik (German)… fear of time running out
Ya’aburnee (Arabic)… not wanting to live in a world without someone

Reflecting on their collaboration on this project, Brian and Beatie said:

“Music is about making feelings happen. Some of those feelings are familiar, while others may not be – or may be complex mixtures of several different feelings. There are many beautiful words for such feelings in other languages and cultures – words that don’t exist in English. By giving a feeling a name, we make that feeling more likely to be felt, more tangible. Art is able to trigger feelings, or feeling mixtures, that we’ve never quite felt before. In this way, a piece of Art can become the ‘mother’ for a type of feeling, and a place you can go to find and re-experience that feeling.”