BRIAN ENO/ANOTHER GREEN WORLD ILPS 9351 (-75) UK

Not counting collaborations or Ambient productions, this was Eno's third studio album. Like with most of his contemporary stuff creating and writing took place in the studio as they went along. The musical pieces were put together by reasoning and chance. One method was the musicians got pieces of papers and asked to write numbers between 1-15. Each corresponded to a chord and the songs came out according to the numbers drawn. The lyrics emerged from Eno chanting syllables to the backing tapes, eventually forming them into real words and sentenses. It's hard to imagine that kind of creative process when you listen to the record. It appears totally elaborated, melodic and very pleasant. Seven of the tracks played by Eno himself, the rest has a great crew of guest musicians as John Cale, Phil Collins, Robert Fripp and Percy Jones. Five songs have lyrics, the rest instrumental. My favorite cuts are "Over Fire Island" because of Percy Jones fretless bass figures and "I'll Come Running" with a perfect solo by Robert Fripp - only a master could make such simple notes that beautiful. Co-produced by Eno and Rhett Davies ( who also worked with Roxy Music, Genesis, King Crimson and Talking Heads among others). It was well recieved by most critics at the time, but failed to chart. First US on Island with same no. and cover. Early UK with label as shown here, thin matt cover and black inner sleeve. (ÄNÖ*) (FÖF*)