Floating World

Floating World is the fourth studio album by the British experimental rock band Jade Warrior released in 1974 by Island Records. The band's experiments with the sounds which would later be labelled as world and ambient music came parallel to that of Brian Eno, who described Floating World as an 'important album'. History After the end of the 1972 American tour, the band's Vertigo contract was cancelled and Jade Warrior dissolved. Steve Winwood then urged Chris Blackwell of Island Records to give the band a hearing, and the latter proposed that Jon Field and Tony Duhig reform the band and sign a contract for three albums (later expanded to four) "as an ornament" to the label. Since Blackwell was interested in a primarily instrumental sound, the contract offered by Island was not extended to include Glyn Havard. Floating World was the first of these four releases that Field and Duhig made with miscellaneous guest musicians. On some pieces – particularly the more introspective ("Waterfall", "Rainflower" and "Memories of a Distant Sea"), multi-instrumentalists Duhig and Field provided all the instrumentation. On other tracks, such as "Easty", "Mountain of Fruit and Flowers" and "Red Lotus", guest musicians were brought in for the drums, string bass, harp, lead guitar and female voice ("Quba"). Style and concept