Brian Eno's Another Green World (33 1/3 #67)

The serene, delicate songs on Another Green World sound practically meditative, but the album itself was an experiment fueled by adrenaline, panic, & pure faith. It was the first Brian Eno album to be composed almost completely in the confines of a recording studio, over a scant few months in the summer of 1975. The album was a proof of concept for Eno's budding ideas of "the studio as musical instrument," & a signpost for a bold new way of thinking about music. 

In this book, Geeta Dayal unravels Another Green World's abundant mysteries, venturing into its dense thickets of sound. How was an album this cohesive & refined formed in such a seemingly ad hoc way? How were electronics & layers of synthetic treatments used to create an album so redolent of the natural world? How did a deck of cards figure into all of this? 

Here, through interviews & archival research, she unearths the strange story of how Another Green World formed the link to Eno's future -- foreshadowing his metamorphosis from unlikely glam rocker to sonic painter & producer.

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Geeta Dayal is an arts critic & journalist specializing in twentieth-century music, culture, & technology. She has written extensively for frieze & many other publications, including the Guardian, Wired, the Wire, Bookforum, Slate, the Boston Globe, & Rolling Stone. She is the author of Another Green World, a book on Brian Eno (Bloomsbury, 2009), & is currently at work on a new book on music.