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Loading... Brian Eno's Another Green World (33 1/3 series)by Geeta Dayal
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. While only one chapter actually delved into an exploration of each song (and even then, some were rather brief), I really enjoyed Dayal's approach to one of my most favorite albums of recent years. I loved her structuring the book around some of the Oblique Strategies and all of the wonderful background placing Another Green World as well as Eno's work in general in context with the pop and new music world. I also appreciate that she stuck to the facts, more or less, no matter how abstract, rather than give a personal account of her relation to the music. AGW is definitely an intimate album, as Dayal well proves here, and I'm glad to keep my experience with it fairly pure, enhanced only by the detail of its creation. ( ) This is an OK book about a great album. The book is only partially about Brian Eno's album Another Green World. Some songs get barely a sentence of direct comment. There's a whole chapter about an entire other Eno album, Discreet Music, and enough general writing about Eno to serve as a mini-biography. no reviews | add a review
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The serene, delicate songs on Another Green World sound practically meditative, but the album itself was an experiment fueled by adrenaline, panic, and 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," and 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 and refined formed in such a seemingly ad hoc way? How were electronics and 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 and 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 and producer. No library descriptions found. |
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