Another Green World
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| Another Green World | ||
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| Studio album by Brian Eno | ||
| Released | November 1975 | |
| Recorded | Island Studios July-August 1975 |
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| Genre | Art Rock, Electronic, Ambient | |
| Length | 40:24 | |
| Label | E.G. Records | |
| Producer(s) | Brian Eno Rhett Davies |
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| Professional reviews | ||
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| Brian Eno chronology | ||
| Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (1974) |
Another Green World (1975) |
Discreet Music (1975) |
Another Green World is an album by experimental musician Brian Eno, released in November 1975 (see 1975 in music). Critically acclaimed, 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.
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), upon which Eno collaborated.[1]
Though the album begins with a harsh, aggressive 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 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" - as well as "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 famous 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.
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[edit] Track listing
All songs written by Brian Eno.
- "Sky Saw" – 3:25
- "Over Fire Island" – 1:49
- "St. Elmo's Fire" – 2:56
- "In Dark Trees" – 2:29
- "The Big Ship" – 3:01
- "I'll Come Running" – 3:48
- "Another Green World" – 1:28
- "Sombre Reptiles" – 2:26
- "Little Fishes" – 1:30
- "Golden Hours" – 4:01
- "Becalmed" – 3:56
- "Zawinul/Lava" – 3:00
- "Everything Merges With the Night" – 3:59
- "Spirits Drifting" – 2:36
[edit] See also
[edit] Personnel
[edit] Artist
- Brian Eno - synthesizer, bass guitar, guitar, percussion, drum machine, pianos, keyboards, organs (Hammond, Farfisa), sound effects, vocals, Yamaha bass pedals, tapes, producer
[edit] Extra musicians
- John Cale - viola
- Phil Collins - percussion, drums
- Robert Fripp - guitars
- Percy Jones - fretless bass
- Roderick Melvin - keyboards, Fender Rhodes piano
- Paul Rudolph - bass, bass guitar, guitar, snare drum
- Brian Turrington - bass guitar, piano
[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
- ^ Roy Carr & Charles Shaar Murray (1981). Bowie: An Illustrated Record: p.88
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