Floating World

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For the Japanese concept of "floating world", see Ukiyo.
Floating World
Floating World cover
Studio album by Anathallo
Released February 25, 2006
Genre Indie/Folk/Experimental
Label Artist Friendship
Professional reviews
Anathallo chronology
'Entropy' Split One-Sided 12" with Javelins
(2005)		 Floating World
(2006)		 Canopy Glow
(2008)

Floating World, a CD based upon a Japanese Fairy Tale is the first full length album by Anathallo, self-released in 2006. "Floating World" is the English translation of the Japanese concept of Ukiyo.

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[edit] Album text

Recorded at home by Glenn Hills & Anathallo
Drums and electric guitars recorded at Glow in the Dark Studios by Matt Goldman
Mixed at Glow in the Dark Studios by Matt Goldman
Mastered at Rodney Mills Mastering House

Floating World was written and performed by
Daniel Bracken, Andrew Dost, Matthew Joynt, Nathan Sandburg,
Joel Thiele, Seth Walker, and Bret Wallin

Additional musicians
Timbre Cierpke, Erica Froman, Chris Hatfield, Glenn Hills, Jeremiah Johnson,
Brian Siers, Morgan Stewart, and Israel Vasquez

Design by Greg Leppert for Quiet | letsbequiet.com

www.anathallo.com

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Ame" – 0:49
  2. "Genessaret (Going Out Over 30,000 Fathoms of Water)" – 5:32
  3. "Hoodwink" – 5:48
  4. "By Number" – 5:08
  5. "Dokkoise House (With Face Covered)" – 6:00
  6. "Hanasakajijii (Four: A Great Wind, More Ash)" – 4:44
  7. "Hanasakajijii (One: The Angry Neighbor)" – 3:10
  8. "Inu (Howling)" – 1:20
  9. "Hanasakajijii (Two: Floating World)" – 4:57
  10. "The Bruised Reed" – 6:04
  11. "Yuki! Yuki! Yuki!" – 1:14
  12. "Hanasakajijii (Three: The Man Who Made Dead Trees Bloom)" – 4:26
  13. "Cuckoo Spitting Blood" – 3:05
  14. "Kasa No Hone (The Umbrella's Bones)" – 2:08

[edit] Song facts

  • "Hanasakajijii 1-4" are based on a Japanese folk story about a dog that digs up gold for its master.
  • The songs "Dokkoise House (With Face Covered)" and "Kasa No Hone (The Umbrella's Bones)" are both from a collection of poems called Japanese Peasant Songs.
  • The lyrics of "By Number" feature a Japanese translation of Psalm 139:5, "Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me."
  • The song "Yuki! Yuki! Yuki!" was featured in a late 2007 Vicks ad.[1]

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