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.

Through interviews and archival research, Geeta Dayal untangles how this extraordinary album foreshadowed the future of electronic music.

Through interviews and archival research, Geeta Dayal untangles how this extraordinary album foreshadowed the future of electronic music.

Brian Eno is loved by pretty much every music geek on the planet. Geeta Dayal is a brilliant young writer who'll do an excellent job of capturing Eno's remarkable talent and influence.

Introduction Preface"Always first steps""Trust in the you of now" "Turn it upside down""Courage!""Abandon normal instruments""Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them""Ask people to work against their better judgment""Define an area as 'safe' and use it as an anchor" / "Don't be frightened of clichés""Honor thy error as a hidden intention""Remember those quiet evenings" / "The tape is now the music" / "Gardening, not architecture""Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities""Is it finished?"AcknowledgementsBibliography

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.