Anathallo

Mar

posted by tommy

Today is the one year anniversary of Sound Doctrine but you wouldn’t know it by looking at it right!? It’s also the one year anniversary of East to West blog so happy anniversary to Holly over there. I created this blog exactly one year ago with the intention of making myself more appealing to women and I think we can all agree that it’s a case of mission accomplished.

I’ve been saving this pearl for a special ocassion and today is that ocassion. I’ve been calling Anathallo my “favourite band” since 2006. It’s a contentious title that has to’d and fro’d over those years with the likes of The Middle East, Sufjan and The Tallest Man on Earth all centimeters away.

Anathallo released three EPs (available now as one compilation) before releasing two records that would heavily shape my current tastes: Floating World and Canopy Glow.

I could write an eternity on why I love these two records but I’ll keep it to this. The first, Floating World, was written on the back of a Japanese tour and is the most earthed, culturally tasteful, understated piece of folk music I have in my collection. The track names to the drum sounds are demonstrative of the Japanese influence and it’s truly something else. It’s worth keeping in mind that this record dropped before the folkwave had crashed violently upon our musical shores. I probably could have used more tasteful imagery in a pragraph referencing Japan.

Anathallo – Hanasakajiji (Four: A Great Wind, More Ash

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Anathallo – Kasa No Hone

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Absent on Canopy Glow is the Japanese influence that has kept Floating World so separate from much of the chaff that would come after it. Nonetheless, it still crescendos amazingly and is arranged like little else out there. Here’s two more winners.

Anathallo – Noni’s Field

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Anathallo – The River

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I’ve already written too much. Just quietly celebrate a year of Sound Doctrine with me.

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