Cut the World explained

Cut the World
Type:	live
Artist:	Antony and the Johnsons
Cover:	Antony and the Johnsons - Cut the World.jpg
Recorded:	2–3 September 2011
Venue:	Koncerthuset (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Label:	Rough Trade
Producer:	Karl Bjerre Skibsted
Prev Title:	Swanlights
Prev Year:	2010
Next Title:	Turning
Next Year:	2014

Cut the World is a live album by Antony and the Johnsons, recorded in Copenhagen and released in August 2012.

In 2012 it was awarded a double silver certification from the Independent Music Companies Association,^[1] which indicated sales of at least 40,000 copies throughout Europe.

Reception

Cut the World received wide acclaim from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 82, based on 31 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".

Track listing

• The title track "Cut the World" is a new song from Anohni that was made for the play The Life and Death of Marina Abramović directed by Robert Wilson and starring Anohni, Marina Abramović and Willem Dafoe.^[2]
• "Future Feminism" is a spoken word track where Anohni "discusses [her] ideas in a speech [she] made during one of the concerts. Addressing the effects of patriarchy on the global ecology, Anohni explores the possibility of shifting towards feminine systems of governance in a gesture to restore our world."^[2]

Personnel

Credits adapted from Cut the World album liner notes.^[3]

Antony and the Johnsons

• Anohni – vocals, arranger
• Thomas Bartlett – piano
• Rob Moose – arranger, conductor
• Maxim Moston – arranger

Additional

• Greg Calbi – mastering
• Danish National Chamber Orchestra – orchestra
• Erik Heide – first violin
• Tatjana Kandel – orchestra artistic manager
• Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin – photography
• Jens Langkilde – recording technician

• Shaun MacDonald – administration
• Nico Muhly – arranger
• Daniel Murphy – layout
• Ossian Ryner – engineer, mixing
• Karl Bjerre Skibsted – producer
• Robert Wilson – director (1)

Notes and References

1. Web site: 13/12/12: More Independent Artists Take European Gold, Silver and Platinum Awards Than Ever Before | Impala . 2 November 2017 . 18 July 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180718084112/http://www.impalamusic.org/node/163 . dead .
2. Web site: Secretly Canadian. 23 July 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20120819191544/http://www.secretlycanadian.com/onesheet.php?cat=SC270. 19 August 2012. dead.
3. Cut the World . . 2012 . CD liner notes . . RTRADCD663.