Floating World

Infobox Album
Name = Floating World
Type = Album
Artist = Anathallo


Released = February 25, 2006
Genre = Indie/Folk/Experimental
Reviews =
*AbsolutePunk.net (100%) [http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=124940 link]
* Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hzfuxqrdldfe link]
* Pitchfork Media (2.7/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/37117-floating-world link]
Label = Artist Friendship
Last album = "'Entropy' Split One-Sided 12" with Javelins"
(2005)
This album = "Floating World"
(2006)
Next album = "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.

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"

Track listing

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

ong 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. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZQVEOeGUhg]

External links

* [http://www.anathallo.com Anathallo official website]