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Brian Eno's Another Green World (33 1/3) Paperback – 1 Jan. 2010

by Geeta Dayal (Author)
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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.
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Dayal's unique and fresh take, which also delves into Discreet Music, is a must read for Eno fans and makes a great primer for the uninitiated. --Flagpole Magazine

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Geeta Dayal's writing on music, visual art, and science has appeared in many major publications, including Bookforum, The Wire, The New York Times, The International Herald-Tribune, and The Village Voice. She is currently at work on a second book on the history of electronic music. She lives in Boston.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Continuum; 1st edition (1 Jan. 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 134 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0826427863
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0826427861
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.07 x 1.14 x 16.38 cm
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  • Ingram
    5.0 out of 5 stars A very nice book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 November 2013
    I am hugely puzzled by the stream of bitter and angry reviews for this delightful, playful and exceptionally well-researched study.

    Potential purchasers should not be put off this book which, I have on authority, is one of Eno's own favourites.

    Perhaps the other reviewers were looking for salacious rock gossip as opposed to the intellectual and emotional context of "Another Green World"?
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  • Snygg
    3.0 out of 5 stars What has she been doing all this time?
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 December 2009
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    Apparently, this was a hard book to write. It certainly took long enough, and I've been looking forward to it very much. But... but... there's nothing in it that I didn't already know! Well, not much anyway, and I won't spoil the few surprises there are by mentioning them here. What I was hoping for was a profound insight into why I play the record several times a year and it never fails to move me, and why Another Green World is a top 5 album for the few people I know who also love it. Bearing in mind that most of the people who will have snapped this up will probably have read the other books on Eno there are available, why did the author spend so much time on background? We KNOW this stuff, damn it! Why so much about Discreet Music? Flicking through the book in increasing frustration, I searched to the bit where we're told what it sounds like, why it's gorgeous, what it all means! I found something along those lines, but it's so slight. What a shame. It's well written and entertaining enough though, and if it's your first book on Eno then by all means get it. But splash out on a copy of More Dark Than Shark, too, if you can find it. By the way, Geeta - if you're reading this - was the reference to Eno 'covering' Drip Music a joke? And also, if you think Everything Merges With The Night is 'sappy' you really need to listen again.
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  • Hybridchild
    4.0 out of 5 stars A short primer on Brian Eno's creative process
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 October 2016
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    I liked this book a lot. It doesn't do what it says on the tin - I wouldn't describe it as a book about Another Green World - nevertheless it is genuinely interesting in its focus on Brian Eno's creative process. I liked the way instructions from his "Oblique Strategies" cards were used as chapter headings. I would recommend this as a short primer on Eno rather than a detailed account of one album.
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  • J. D. Ruddick
    4.0 out of 5 stars 33 1/3 book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 March 2016
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    8/10 quite interesting
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  • K. Eden
    3.0 out of 5 stars ...still a good read.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 November 2009
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    Like most Eno fans I waited with baited breathe for Geeta Dayal's book. To be honest there is nothing new to offer in this book that hasn't been written elsewhere.
    The problem lies in there being no new Eno interview and even if one had been procurred it is doubtful that the man himself could have shed any light, or offered anything new to offer, on the the making of the classic album.
    Whilst the book does offer some new insights from bassist Percy Jones its reliance on quotes from other sources leaves one feeling let down.
    Almost a third of the book deals with 'Discreet Music' that was released around the same time as AGN and is brought up to show that Eno was already leaning towards his Ambient music output (remember that the majority of AGN is instrumental anyway).
    So, nothing new for Eno fans but like all the 33 1/3 books they are worth picking up and still make a good read.
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  • jayp
    2.0 out of 5 stars Weak and a wasted opportunity
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 March 2019
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    When so many reviewers are so disappointed, you know the book's a dud. Stupidly, I ordered this without looking at the reviews. Still, it's not exactly expensive, so I wouldn't want to put anyone off reading it as it does have some interesting insights and information. But it's a real shame that the author was not up to the job and didn't manage to get Eno himself to collaborate in detail on the book.
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  • paul caswell
    1.0 out of 5 stars It’s just not Here
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 December 2019
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    The Author spends all her time subjecting us to her Psychobabble of the album which bears no relation to the actual album.
    Childlike name checking of German bands Like Can etc., makes it worst. If you want to know about the recording, Musicians used, Thought behind the album. Then look elsewhere because it’s just not here.
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  • james waite
    4.0 out of 5 stars subliminal
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 February 2016
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  • John Andrew
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great read!
    Reviewed in Canada on 3 January 2017
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    Brand new as expected! Great read!
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  • Darker Scratcher
    5.0 out of 5 stars Tolles Infowerk über den zeitlosen Klassiker
    Reviewed in Germany on 20 October 2014
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    Für den "Brian Eno" Fan und Liebhaber dieses "Jahrhundert" Albums ein Muss!
    Es gibt viele Infos aus anderen Dokumenten, wie Artikeln und Interviews in einen leicht verständlichen Englisch.
    Das Jahr 1975 und seine kulturellen und künstlerischen Einflüsse werden am Beispiel von anderen Bands und Alben verdeutlicht.
    So wird Enos "Discreet Music" mit dem verstörenden Album "Metal Machine Music" von Lou Reed (RIP), einem seiner "Heroes" von "Velvet Underground", gegenüber gestellt. Dies zeigt wohl die gesamte Spannbreite des Musikjahres 1975.
    Die Platte wird Stück für Stück analysiert und beispielsweise der Einfluss auf das "Low" Album von David Bowie (RIP),
    an dem "Brian Eno" auch massgeblich mitgearbeitet hat, thematisiert.
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  • B. McGowan
    5.0 out of 5 stars Inspirational
    Reviewed in the United States on 29 July 2010
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    Geeta Dayal's "Another Green World" contribution to the 33 1/3 collection is invaluable. It's a knock out, really. The book is like a tiny manifesto for struggling creative individuals who find themselves perplexed and frustrated in any number of fields as diverse as music, business management, visual arts and on and on. Business management may seem a stretch, but when you consider "cybernetics" which has had a major impact on Brian Eno's organizational skills, the connection doesn't seem so tenuous.
    Dayal's book reads like a philosophical treatise in the way "Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" informs its readers of philosophy without coming off as the least bit didactic. You know, the college professor lectures, and you pretend to dutifully listen and take notes as you doodle. The reader is kind of thrown into Dayal's elaborations, expansions, and amplifications on "Another Green World," and you learn a few things about Dayal in the process.
    For example, Dayal is every bit the experimentalist as Eno. The author suggests playing selections of "Another Green World" and "Discrete Music" at half and quarter speeds on either turn tables or on tape machines. Dayal also suggests playing Eno's music in combos: tracks from Discrete Music played at the same time as "Music For Airports." I thoroughly enjoyed this inventiveness bordering on the playful that Eno and by extension, Dayal, engage in. I suppose, if you can't have fun in your work, then you're missing out on something. Eno and Dayal have made me more familiar with this idea of loving what you do, and doing what you love, although, it's not the first time I've encountered what, at surface seems like a New Age cliche' for folks struggling with a loss of meaning in their work. Interesting that Brian Eno mentions suffering a midlife crisis starting at age 19, and continuing unabated, for the last forty years of his life! He often asks himself, "Is any of this art that I'm doing really worth the time and effort?" If anything, Eno is honest with himself. He possesses that deep philosophical strain found in most civilizations.
    There isn't an exact chronological order to this book. It kind of ping pongs from interviews with Eno in the 1980's and 1990's to extended interviews with session players and colleagues of Eno who give the book a flavor of current happenings. By this I mean, there is an immediacy to some of the interviews, that makes one feel as though the recording sessions were taking place earlier in the day. There's a real vibrancy on offer in Dayal's critique.
    As mentioned in several reviews for the 33 1/3 series, these books are intended for people who are passionate about their albums/cds. The general sense I get is that as people mature and sharpen their intellectual skills in their 30's/40's/50's, they desire a more sophisticated approach or at least a defense as to why these albums matter to them. They need a structural approach to the material that inspired so much passion,and infused their existence with meaning. Gayeet Dayal lends the vocabulary necessary to articulate what it is that this music does for the listener. It's a very commendable book on that score.
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  • Steven Yates
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent short guide to a landmark recording and its environment.
    Reviewed in the United States on 5 November 2009
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    Geeta Dayal's contribution to Continuum's 33 1/3 series was delayed several times; finally in print, it was definitely worth the wait. Geeta Dayal has successfully walked the tightrope between giving us an extended review of a record that (incredibly!) will be 35 years old next year and a biography of its creator, Brian Eno. What we get are touches of both--in the context of a nice, accessible guide to the total environment that went into the making of that amazing record, Another Green World. We are reminded that Eno's way of working drew on such devices as the Oblique Strategies cards, what he'd learned from other adventurous composers such as John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Steve Reich and Terry Riley, and the gold mine of ideas available in books he'd read ranging from Stafford Beer's ventures into cybernetics and management to Morse Peckham's exploration of the relationship between art and biology. Eno's way of working, which treated musical composition as one species of system creation and used the recording studio as a de facto instrument, lifted Eno out of the boxes that confined, e.g., the majority of "prog rockers." Among the results was removing vocals/lyrics from the center of the picture resulting in "flatter" productions where no single instrument dominates. This mindset would lead to the development of ambient music in the late 1970s/early 1980s and, later, to generative music in the 1990s. It's amazing that any one person could pull all this off--but Eno is undoubtedly a genius, having gone from visually-stunning (and cross-dressing) Roxy Music glam rocker to one of the world's most in-demand producers and most respected visual artists.

    While drawing on the numerous interviews Brian Eno has given for the music press, Dayal's treatment also makes use of observations by other musicians who have worked with Eno and agreed to be interviewed for her book: Robert Fripp, Harold Budd, Percy Jones, David Toop, Leo Abrahams, and others. Dayal also draws on past statements by David Bowie, John Cale, and others. All these insights reveal the strange combination of playfulness and occasionally frustration that came with working in the studio with Captain Eno, who had been educated at an art school (Ipswich) whose instructors deliberately set about to upset all their students preconceptions about their subject matter. From those who have worked with him we get a near-unanimous vote of confidence. He knew what he was doing; his aim was to unlock hidden potential: undertaking the musical equivalent of planting seeds and then just observing what they grew into (one of the Oblique Strategies does read "Gardening, not architecture").

    Another Green World itself is, to my mind, an immortal album, almost like magic set in sound. Many of its fourteen tracks are unlike anything recorded either before or since. Five are songs, with lyrics and fairly standard structure. Sample titles: "St. Elmo's Fire," "I'll Come Running," "Everything Merges With the Night." The other nine are instrumental sound paintings evoking various moods and images. Sample titles: "Becalmed," "In Dark Trees," "Little Fishes," "Spirits Drifting." The opener, "Sky Saw," begins as an instrumental but then brings in vocals, forming a kind of bridge between the two. One of Geeta Dayal's later chapters (interestingly titled using the Oblique Strategy "Ask people to work against their better judgment") walks us one-by-one through the various tracks on Another Green World, integrating commentary from the musicians that worked on these tracks often with no idea what other musicians were doing or what the results would be like.

    Geeta Dayal is to be congratulated for pulling together a lot of information and insight into this one slim volume. For some reason I was expecting a book with physically larger dimensions, but that's neither here nor there. This is a useful contribution to a slowly growing literature on Brian Eno and belongs in every serious Eno collector's library.
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  • Ralph S.
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on 30 March 2017
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    Interesting only to Eno and Bowie fans. (Meaning me!)
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