If there was a knighthood given for service in the cause of sparking mass creativity, Brian Eno would have to have it. The dude has been the touchstone of everything amazing musically in the last forty years: he was the glammed-out synthesist in the iconic proto-punk band Roxy Music, he invented ambient music with classics like Music For Airports, he was a crucial part of fomenting iconoclastic music forms ranging from punk to no wave to electronica, as well as an early proponent of sampling on My Life If The Bush of Ghosts, his collabo with David Byrne; as a producer, he’s sprinkled his experimental stardust on acts spanning Talking Heads to U2 to Coldplay and beyond…

Honestly, there isn’t enough room to list Brian Eno’s great contributions to music, art, design, politics, technology and conceptual thinking (of course you could just read Geeta Dayal’s great book on Eno, Another Green World). What’s more, the man just doesn’t stop: he’s signed a new record deal with always-forward electronic label Warp Records, with a full-length release planned for November. Entitled Small Craft On A Milk Sea, the album was created with two frequent Eno collaborators, electronic musician and producer Jon Hopkins and experimental composer Leo Abrahams, who’s worked with the likes of Imogen Heap, Ed Harcourt, and David Holmes. “It contains the fruits of several years of jams between the three of us,” Abrahams said in a blog post. “I’ve not heard anything quite like it — it sounds ‘live’ and ‘alien’ at the same time. Some things have been permitted to survive, which only Brian would have had the courage to let go, and it’s so much the better for it.” (More from Abrahams and a track list for Small Craft On A Milk Sea can be found here.

It’s been five years since Eno’s last proper solo work and two since his collaboration with David Byrne, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today—and the fact that Eno will be reuniting yet again with Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music—makes anticipation high. So far, there’s been no leaked music, but here you can see the amazing, artistic packaging that Eno & co. have come up with. It represents that classic Eno vanguard spirit—if even the packaging can take the project to new heights, then it will be done.