Another Green World was Brian Eno's 3rd solo album released and was for at the time (1975) a radical departure from the Glam Rock of Roxy Music (where he recorded 2 brilliant albums) and hot off the coat tails of his minimalistic adventure of No Pussyfooting with Robert Fripp recorded this album. Many cite (in error) this album as the forefather of Ambient music, but instead I might suggest perhaps the Grandfather as there were a number of great albums before this one that explored electronic minimlaism (ie Klaus Schulze, Kraftwerk...). But having said that this album certainly stands alone as one of the true early ambient masterpieces of its ilk and an album that you will never forget.
Musically this album blends electronic atmospheres with some lovely melodies and even a few pop-ish tunes. Some songs are instrumental and some have vocals which will surprise you as to how good a voice Eno had ! Brian is joined by Phil Collins on the drums and Robert Fripp on the guitar while Eno takes care of most of the electronics and full use of the studio. This album has been previously released multiple times on CD but clearly it is the Astralwerks DSD version that has really brought out the album the way it was meant to be heard in loveingly 96 Kbts. A Vastly improved sound quality on an absoluetly essential album.
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