Another Green World

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Another Green World
Another Green World cover
Studio album by Brian Eno
Released November 1975
Recorded Island Studios
July-August 1975
Genre Art Rock, electronica, ambient
Length 40:24
Label E.G. Records
Producer Brian Eno
Rhett Davies
Professional reviews
Brian Eno chronology
Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
(1974)		 Another Green World
(1975)		 Evening Star
(1975)

Another Green World is the third album by British experimental musician Brian Eno, released on November 1975 (see 1975 in music). The album marks a fundamental shift in Eno's musical expression, farther away from conventional song structure than ever before, and increasingly bizarre and iconoclastic. This inevitably made the album less mainstream, and to some listeners less accessible, than his previous work. Critically acclaimed, Another Green World is regarded by many fans and critics as Eno's magnum opus.

The album has fourteen tracks and only five with vocals. Many of these tracks laid the foundation for Eno’s future ambient career. Much of the album is accented by a mixture of an array of sounds mixed in the far background. The musical textures have been cited as a significant influence on David Bowie's 'Berlin Trilogy' (1977-79), on which Eno collaborated.[1]

Though the album begins with a relatively harsh piece titled "Sky Saw", most of this album has a gentler approach than Eno's previous works. The atmosphere is an unusual combination of whimsical humour and melancholy serenity, sometimes on the same track.

"St. Elmo's Fire," one of the tracks featuring Eno on vocals, showcases a guitar solo by Robert Fripp, frequently cited[who?] as one of the most melodic and beautiful of his career. In the liner notes for the track, Fripp is said to play the "Wimshurst guitar"; an example of Eno's use of descriptive names for instruments used - Eno likened Fripp's solo to the way sparks jump between the electrodes of the Wimshurst Machine generator. Elsewhere Fripp is described as playing "Wimborne guitar" on the track "Golden Hours," a joke on Fripp's birth in Wimbourne, England.

"Zawinul/Lava" is an instrumental piece with piano, fretless bass and percussion. It reflects a sparse, airy atmosphere similar to Eno’s later album Ambient 1/Music for Airports.

The title track is known in the UK as the theme music for the BBC TV arts series Arena.

Pitchfork Media ranked the album number ten on their Top 100 Albums of the 1970s. In 2003, the album was ranked number 433 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Contents

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All songs written by Brian Eno.

  1. "Sky Saw" – 3:25
  2. "Over Fire Island" – 1:49
  3. "St. Elmo's Fire" – 3:02
  4. "In Dark Trees" – 2:29
  5. "The Big Ship" – 3:01
  6. "I'll Come Running" – 3:48
  7. "Another Green World" – 1:28
  8. "Sombre Reptiles" – 2:26
  9. "Little Fishes" – 1:30
  10. "Golden Hours" – 4:01
  11. "Becalmed" – 3:56
  12. "Zawinul/Lava" – 3:00
  13. "Everything Merges With the Night" – 3:59
  14. "Spirits Drifting" – 2:36

[edit] See also

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Artist

[edit] Extra musicians

[edit] Technical staff

  • Rhett Davies - producer, engineer
  • Robert Ash - assistant engineer
  • Guy Bidmead - assistant engineer
  • Barry Sage - assistant engineer
  • Bob Bowkett - typography
  • Ritva Saarikko - photography
  • Tom Phillips - cover art (detail from After Raphael)[1]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Roy Carr & Charles Shaar Murray (1981). Bowie: An Illustrated Record: p.88


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