Submitted by JunebugAsiimwe t3_11wn671 in Music
It's been raining a lot where I live and I'm listening to "Another Green World" by Brian Eno a lot. It gives me a sense of warmth and tranquility that not many albums do. The production is so dynamic without being intrusive or overbearing – Eno really mastered how to use spacious arrangements effectively.
I wanted to know which other albums would you recommend in a similar vein? Especially in the ambient genre.
Also the albums he did with Robert Fripp, like "No Pussyfooting". That stuff is amazing
and the instrumentals at the end of Bowie's "Low"
I've heard Here Come The Water Jets but not the other 2 you mentioned. Though they are on my list for albums I plan to check out this month.
Not heard the Ultravox album or David Byrne/Twyla Tharpe record. Though I do love "My Life in Bush of Ghosts" and the Talking Heads albums he produced.
Before and After Science is probably the closest to capturing the same range of sounds/moods on Another Green World, with some poppier nods similar to Warm Jets.
It's my 3rd of 4th favorite Eno (in contention with Apollo)
Gonna give it a listen this week. I'm very excited to hear it!
I've never found another album that quite fills the special role that Another Green World plays for me, but a group that gives me related feelings is Boards of Canada. All their shit is great, but I'd especially recommend their first two full length albums, Music Has The Right To Children and Geogaddi. Happy listening!
Worth noting, the vibe is pretty different sonically, but I think the philosophy of production and the idea of being "dynamic without being intrusive" is very present with BoC.
I LOVE Boards of Canada! Especially those first two albums.
Eno was an influence on BoC (along with Mike Oldfield curiously enough).
The Pearl, by Brian Eno and Harold Budd is wonderful.
That album is truly remarkable. Another Harold Budd album I adore is Pavillion of Dreams which again was produced by Brian Eno.
Try Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92. It's a little beatier, but there's an obvious influence.
I adore that album.
You seem to know a lot about the ambient genre and Eno-related stuff already. I'm not sure there's a lot people will be able to suggest that you aren't already aware of. However, I'm going to try anyway. I think you'll enjoy some Krautrock and modern low-fi indie.
Cluster & Eno - Cluster & Eno (obviously)
Neu! - Neu! (a little groovier than Cluster)
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (a little darker)
Broken Social Scene - Feel Good Lost (this is their first album and is mostly ambient, different from their others)
The Books - The Lemon of Pink (more low-fi than Eno, but has a similar vibe)
Sorry for the late response. Of the five you mentioned the only one I'm familiar with is Neu! I will check out the rest since they all sound intriguing from your descriptions.
Thank you 🙂
Don't worry about it. I'm here for the long haul.
Hope you have a wonderful week. Thanks again for the recommendations.
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all the stuff with jon hassell is incredible. never heard anything like it
I'm sure I'll like these. Jon Hassell is brilliant.
My life in the bush of ghosts
I loooooove that album.
That solo on "St. Elmo's Fire" is maybe my favorite of all time.
It's absolutely sublime.
"Another Green World" made up part of a broader movement known as progressive electronic, though the album itself is a little more rock-oriented in the sense that it often features vocals and traditional instruments (guitar, bass, etc).
Nevertheless, if you like the electronic/ambient aspects of this work, here are some quick recommendations:
Hans Joachim Roedelius - Wenn Der Südwind Weht
Harmonia - Musik Von Harmonia
Cluster - Zuckerzeit
Klaus Schulze - Timewind
Edgar Froese - Epsilon in Malaysian Pale
Richard Pinhas - Iceland
K. Leimer - Closed System Potentials
Steve Roach - Structures from Silence
Michael Stearns - M'Ocean
Thank you for all these recommendations. And yes I was specifically looking for records with that ambient/electronic soundscape so I really appreciate this.
Prince apparently once called it the album that most influenced him. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/07/ambient-genius
not surprised Prince had great taste
Oh yeah! I discovered Here Come the Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy, Another Green World, and Before and After Science in 2020 and they blew me away, I was a fan of Roxy and the Fripp/Eno albums but hadn’t listened to this solo Eno albums, I’ve listened to my old dads vinyls so much I’m thinking on buying new copies before I ruin the ones I have….. I also recommend The Nerve Net.
I got into Eno's music in late 2018 when my life was in shambles. Another Green World and Music For Airports were so comforting for me many nights I struggled with insomnia. So I have a big emotional attachment to those albums specifically.
Reading those descriptions of The Nerve Net I'm certain it's gonna be a record I love. Thank you 🙂
Nothing quite heals the soul like music, hope you like The Nerve Net! Love your profile pick btw.
I concur. Music has been a saving grace in some of my darkest times. will let you know when I get to it this coming month.
Thank you! Bowie is one of my music heroes. ❤
I want "The Big Ship" played at my funeral.
Either that or on my deathbed
The perfect soundtrack to your life flashing before your eyes. Same here.
The musicians working on this album are just tremendous: Robert Fripp, Phil Collins, John Cale and Percy Jones.
They gave Eno some amazing raw materials to work with.
Whoa! Had no idea John Cale and Phil Collins worked on this album. I love John Cale's solo work so this is a nice thing to learn.
You know, for me it’s music for Airports, always puts me in a place of balance. I’m a huge Brian Eno fan but reading this thread really hammers home just how important he has been, he has been/is such a creative presence, whether as an artist or producer.
Brian Eno is such a great figure in music. His contributions to the world of electronic and rock cannot be overstated. A true musical genius.
one of my top albums for sure - also try David Bowie’s Low
in case you couldn't tell from my pfp I'm a massive Bowie fan. I adore Low, it's in my top 3 of Bowie's discography.
adore!!!!!
I’m saving this post for all the banger recommendations. Hell yes. About half of them are albums I’ve never listened too, I’ll curate the rest of the months music from this post alone.
same!!!
Precisely the reason I made this post. 😌
One favourite bit of Eno trivia.
He recorded Taking Tiger Mountain... at the same studio and same time that Genesis were recording The Lamb... album. Gabriel being an admirer invited him to contribute and he duly provided some ethereal touches to what was already a very trippy album.
He is the only non-member to have a writing credit on a Genesis album (check out The Grand Parade Of Lifeless Packaging). However, his influence seems to pervade the album more generally - there are 2 short ambient songs.
However, Eno needed a drummer to work on Mother Whale Eyeless and Genesis offered up Phil Collins (he stated he felt like a prostitute). It obviously went well because Collins would also play on AGW and B&AS.
Now this makes me wish we got a Peter Gabriel album produced by Brian Eno back in the 80s.
The ideal album for Enossification would have been Melt for sure. It is surprising Eno didn't feature on any of his albums given that Fripp was prominent on the 1st 3 and produced Scratch. But they were clearly going in different directions.
Eno went towards Ambient while Gabriel went for a more industrial sound up to Mask at least. But in fairness to Melt, it was already an excellent album and I guess you could draw a contrast with Bowie's Scary Monsters. Melt for all its electronics is quite a sparse album while Scary Monsters is rich and layered.
Never found anything with the same feel. I'm just gonna cite "rain-compatible" ambient albums.
- Biosphere - Dropsonde. The "warmest" and "rainiest" album of Biosphere imho.
For colder but still earthly vibes Cirque and most obviously Substrata. For space travel, Shenzou.
- Carbon Based Lifeforms - Interloper, still pretty "rainy" imho.
Forgot about
- Helios - Eingya
- Helios - Unleft
Both massively warm and rainy, wet blades of grass in the golden hour at sunset-level-warmth.
Way more ethereal and less analogic than Another Green World, a different thing altogether, but as I said, never found anything like AGW. None of this stuff is like it, they're just really great albums
Thank you so much for all these recommendations. Especially with the cold rainy weather in my country right now I could definitely use some music that suits that atmosphere.
Cheers!
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure Or David Bowie - Low
Edit to add: Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
For Your Pleasure is easily my favorite Roxy Music album.
Lol! My dummy brain read "Anthony Green" then I started reading the comments and was confused then re-read "Another Green..." Got me good!
That's a hard one for me. There's nothing exactly like it. Especially because of the difference between Side A and Side B.
I like to play it on relaxed Sunday afternoons when I'm in charge of dining area of the restaurant I work at.
These are some albums I like to play before or after Another Green World depending the weather, who's eating, time of the year or where I'm trying to get the mood to go.
Low - David Bowie
Little Kingdom - Citay
Stoicism - Moses Sumney
Michigan - Sufjan Stevens
Kiss Each Other Clean - Iron and Wine
Flesh and Machine - Daniel Lanois
Xenia - Xênia França
Spirit of Eden - Talk Talk
Playing With Fire - Spacemen 3
Ágætis Byrjun - Sigur Rós
Love & Hate - Michael Kiwanuka
Grizzly Bear - Shields
Marissa Nadler - The Path of The Clouds
NO THANK YOU - Little Simz
So much great stuff in here. Particularly chuffed to see Little Simz, Sigur Rós, Sufjan Stevens, and Talk Talk as those are some of my favorite artists.
Thanks. So many times have I put on Another Green World and then thought, "Well shit, what do I play now??"
Eno's stuff is brilliant studio work.
Try Homogenic by Bjork as well as Vespertine.
They're really hypnotic.
I'm a huge Björk fan. I love Vespertine, Vulnicura and Homogenic the most.
Eluvium - a walk amongst the trees. Grouper - dragging a dead deer up a hill
I love Grouper! Her albums Alien Observer, Dream Loss, Ruins and Dragging A Deer Up A Hill have been in constant rotation lately.
Nobody has mentioned the seminal album Music for Airports. Excellent album.
Also recommended the Box set Music for Installations. Which is a compilation of all of the albums he wrote for installation projects.
Before And After Science, also by Brian Eno, rocks. It's not instrumental, though. Taking Tiger Mountain is good too. Music For Airports is instrumental.
Explosions In The Sky has some great instrumental albums, The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place is a favorite.
Jean Michel Jarre's Equinoxe and Oxygene albums are great instrumental works as well. Equinoxe is an all time favorite.
Will be adding these to my list of albums for April. 🙏🏾
I would define AGW as proto-ambient, with a foot in the Progressive camp (most of the musiicans were from that genre). Completely agree that it's a perfect album. Could argue there is some inspiration from the Harmonia album that came out a year before, which Eno effusively praised. After AGW, he would produce an album with them.
But Eno's 4 non-ambient albums in the 1970s are all classics and each so distinct in their own style.
Low by David Bowie, just to state the obvious
Can I give a shout out to Apollo ?
Sure you can. I've not yet heard that one but it seems to be a popular choice for Eno fans.
Okay then, I definitely recommend it for a rainy day, or perhaps a serene starry Moonlit night would be better. Always Returning is one of those tracks that brings a tear to the eye.
Thank you. Will definitely take up that recommendation.
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I'm assuming you've already heard:
Here Come the Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy, Before and After Science
Roxy Music first album, he's on the second album but I don't like that one very much
He was a major contributor to The Catherine Wheel soundtrack by David Byrne/Twyla Tharpe
He produced Ultravox's first album, Devo's first album, and albums 2, 3 and 4 by Talking Heads