Brian Eno's Another Green World

The serene, delicate songs on Another Green World sound practicallymeditative, but the album itself was an experiment fueled byadrenaline, panic, and pure faith. It was the first Brian Eno album tobe composed almost completely in the confines of a recording studio,over a scant few months in the summer of 1975. The album was a proofof concept for Eno’s budding ideas of “the studio as musicalinstrument,“ and a signpost for a bold new way of thinking about music. In this book, Geeta Dayal unravels Another Green World’s abundantmysteries, venturing into its dense thickets of sound. How was analbum this cohesive and refined formed in such a seemingly ad hoc way?How were electronics and layers of synthetic treatments used to createan album so redolent of the natural world? How did a deck of cardsfigure into all of this? Here, through interviews and archivalresearch, she unearths the strange story of how Another Green World formed the link to Eno’s future -- foreshadowing his metamorphosisfrom unlikely glam rocker to sonic painter and producer.