title: Moonbathing on Sleeping Leaves
text: # Moonbathing on Sleeping Leaves
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  | The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
  | Lincoln Journal Star | |
  | Los Angeles Times | |
  | MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | |
  
  Moonbathing on Sleeping Leaves is the fourth album by Sky Cries Mary, released in 1997 through Warner Bros. Records. It was the band's first album for a major label.
  
  ## Production
  
  The album was produced by Paul Fox and the band. Krist Novoselic contributes acoustic bass to one song.
  
  ## Critical reception
  
  The Encyclopedia of Popular Music called Moonbathing on Sleeping Leaves "an impressively diverse album that experimented with ambient and trance grooves." The Lincoln Journal Star called it "mesmerizing," writing that the band "creates its fascinating, lush sound mixture by playing everything - from farfisa organ and Moog synthesizer to finger cymbals, castanets and, literally, the kitchen sink."
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All tracks are written by Sky Cries Mary.
  
  ## Personnel
  
  ### Sky Cries Mary
  
  * Michael Cozzi – guitar
  * Juano Davison – bass guitar
  * Bennett James – drums, percussion
  * Gordon Raphael – guitar, synthesizer, sampler, organ
  * Todd Robbins – sampler, turntables, vocoder, synthesizer, drum machine
  * Anisa Romero – vocals, harmonium, painting
  * Roderick Wolgamott Romero – vocals, synthesizer
  
  ### Production and additional personnel
  
  * Paul Fox – production
  * Stephen Marcussen – mastering
  * Sky Cries Mary – production
  * Ed Thacker – engineering, mixing
  