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Beat Instrumental JANUARY 1976 - by Staff Writers

ENO: ANOTHER GREEN WORLD

I'm afraid that I must, perhaps not for the first time in our album reviews, express my disgust with the current state of the music business. Yet again Brian Eno has made an album to rank alongside ANY record which you may care to name as one of your all-time favourites. Yet somehow he still doesn't seem to be getting the recognition he deserves from a media obsessed with Bruce Springsteen, Bob Marley and other lesser mortals. Believe me, Eno has 'em all beat hands down!

Another Green World is a piece of musical emotional surrealism the bizarre landscape of which scatters itself across your brain like a wild dose of brain fever. Eno is probably the nearest thing that we have to a musical genius among us at the moment. Contrary to the reports his music is totally accesible as it stands. You do not require a degree in hypeology to grasp the atmosphere he juggles so skilfully inside your head - albeit one of abstract subjective reality.

Certainly his music has elements of electronics within it. Certainly the rhythm section sounds like the jungle drums of another world we can barely begin to see. But, for god's sake, there is melody there and there are lyrics which we can relate to and travel with to Eno's 'Green World'. That makes this music understandable in areas where other experimental works can fail so badly.

As I write this review I can remember Capital Radio this morning playing four repetitive, unmelodic, uncreative soul records in a row. I was unmoved and played an album vinstead. If they'd played Another Green World I wouldn't have turned my radio off. Neither, I'm willing to bet, would many other listeners who are totally bored with unexpressive unemotional music that gets us nowhere.

There's little more to say about Another Green World than this. Buy it because, if you're a musician you need inventive music around you to inspire you. Buy it because if you're just a music freak you need freak music. Buy it because this is Eno's latest album. Buy it because it's a masterwork.