The Strange Brew - artist stories behind the greatest music ever recorded
Aug 21, 2026 · 42 min · 9 segments
Arthur Brown joins Jason Barnard, alongside his partner and collaborator Claire Waller, to talk through his new album *Nature* and a life spent chasing fire, water, air and earth through sound and…
Arthur BrownGuest
Claire WallerGuest
Jason BarnardHost
It is a lovely companion piece to the Fire album, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown album, in that you've got that connection.
It brings out the themes that you had 60 years ago, earth, water, fire and air, those four elements.
In one way, the first album was an examination of duality as a way of doing things, a way of, in the old days, historically, you would solve a problem by two people fighting.
And so it was this whole process of basing life on a dualistic approach and there's all of its structures and so the journey that we took had a lot to do all the way through with nature and in the way the first album was to do with nature as well then our journeys as well that we did say like in the 10 years We saw some absolutely incredible natural things, natural powers, natural energies, natural...
And so the growth that happened in these 10 years, for me, was that I was traveling with Claire.
very direct, with animals, with plants, with energies that we maybe sometimes don't see, but we feel the effect of.
What became more and more evident... was the current state of everything is all kind of fluid, but it's not, if you would say, it's not superbly naturally fluid.
that is occupying a lot of our time, it's already well advanced into a problematic existence.
And then if you're someone who loves nature, wants to know actually what is it in its heart and what other ways can we look at it, then this kind of dualistic way that we have looked at things You got anything to say about that?
It is a lovely companion piece to the Fire album, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown album, in that you've got that connection.
It brings out the themes that you had 60 years ago, earth, water, fire and air, those four elements.
In one way, the first album was an examination of duality as a way of doing things, a way of, in the old days, historically, you would solve a problem by two people fighting.
And so it was this whole process of basing life on a dualistic approach and there's all of its structures and so the journey that we took had a lot to do all the way through with nature and in the way the first album was to do with nature as well then our journeys as well that we did say like in the 10 years We saw some absolutely incredible natural things, natural powers, natural energies, natural...
And so the growth that happened in these 10 years, for me, was that I was traveling with Claire.
very direct, with animals, with plants, with energies that we maybe sometimes don't see, but we feel the effect of.
What became more and more evident... was the current state of everything is all kind of fluid, but it's not, if you would say, it's not superbly naturally fluid.
that is occupying a lot of our time, it's already well advanced into a problematic existence.
And then if you're someone who loves nature, wants to know actually what is it in its heart and what other ways can we look at it, then this kind of dualistic way that we have looked at things You got anything to say about that?
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