Jade Warrior - Floating World flac album

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Waves is the fifth studio album by British ntal rock band Jade Warrior released in 1975 by Island Records. The album, written, recorded and produced by Jon Field and Tony Duhig with guest musicians (Steve Winwood among them) consisted of one single composition which in the pre-CD days had to be divided into two parts to fit A and B sides.

Ukiyo, the floating world Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossom and the maple leaves, singing songs, drinking wine and diverting ourselves just in floating, floating, caring not a whit for the pauperism staring us in the face, refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along the. river current: this is what we call Ukiyo. Translated by Richard Lane: "The beginnings of Modern Japanese Novel": Kana-zoshi, 1600-1682, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vo. 0. 1974 Island Records.

The aptly titled Floating World was the fourth album by Jade Warrior overall and their first for Island Records. While it is fair to say that this album constituted the start of a whole new sound and approach for the band, there are still traces here of their early sound. To that extent one might see both the previous Last Autumn's Dream and the present album as somewhat transitional albums between the old and the new, and it is also these two albums that best capture the essence of Jade Warrior

However, the Warrior's ts, Jon Field and Tony Duhig, soldiered on at the urging of Steve Winwood, whose enthusiastic support of the diminished Warrior secured the duo a deal with his label, Island. Floating World was the new-look Jade's debut, a concept album themed around the Japanese philosophy of Ukiyo, with the songs revolving around two interrelated series of compositions

Floating World is the fourth studio album by the British experimental rock band Jade Warrior released in 1974 by Island Records  . Floating World is a concept album structured around the Japanese philosophy of Ukiyo, the acceptance of life and its surroundings, living only for the moment (". " to quote the album's liner notes). The sound of it has been described as "based on a unique combination of rock, jazz, classical and world influences, employing the. extremities of dynamic range".

One person found this helpful. Floating World" is the first of Jade Warrior's 'island era' albums & represents a transition to highly refined & highly inspired instrumental music. By the time of this release, 1974, the band reduced to only the two founding members - Tony Duhig & Jon Field.