Jethro Tull - Ring Out These Bells (Ring Out, Solstice Bells)

Band: Jethro Tull
Audio: "Ring Out These Bells"
Album: "The String Quartets"
Release date: March 24th, 2017
Label: BMG / The End Records
Format: CD

Track listing:
01. In The Past (Living In The Past)
02. Sossity Waiting (Sossity: You’re a Woman / Reasons For Waiting)
03. Bungle (Bungle In The Jungle)
04. Ring Out These Bells (Ring Out, Solstice Bells)
05. Farm, The Fourway (Farm On The Freeway)
06. We Used To Bach (We Used To Know / Bach Prelude C Maj)
07. Velvet Gold (Velvet Green)
08. Pass The Bottle (A Christmas Song)
09. Loco (Locomotive Breath)
10. Only The Giving (Wond’ring Aloud)
11. Songs And Horses (Songs From The Wood / Heavy Horses)
12. Aquafugue (Aqualung)

Δελτίο τύπου: «The String Quartets is a new album by Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson and the Carducci Quartet featuring the classic songs of Jethro Tull, arranged and orchestrated by John O’Hara. Ian plays flute on most of the tracks and even sings a few lines here and there to provide his trademark sounds in the context of classical music traditions.

Living In The Past, Aqualung, Locomotive Breath and Bungle In The Jungle are amongst the album track listing but appear, along with their fellow musical travelers, under more cryptic titles to differentiate them from the original recordings and arrangements.

Recorded in the crypt of Worcester Cathedral, UK and in St Kenelm’s Church, Sapperton, Gloucestershire, UK, Ian says that this album is "Perfect for lazy, long sunny afternoons, crisp winter nights, weddings and funerals." He forgot to add, perfect also after a night of wild, abandoned sex or to celebrate the win of your favourite football team. Essentially, anytime music for sophisticated lovers of Classic Rock too afraid to wear their Tull T-shirt at the village barbecue.»

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Jethro Tull - Pass The Bottle (A Christmas Song)

Band: Jethro Tull
1. Audio: "Pass The Bottle"
2. Video: Interview with Ian Anderson

Album: "The String Quartets"
Release date: March 24th, 2017
Label: BMG / The End Records
Format: CD

Track listing:
01. In The Past (Living In The Past)
02. Sossity Waiting (Sossity: You’re a Woman / Reasons For Waiting)
03. Bungle (Bungle In The Jungle)
04. Ring Out These Bells (Ring Out, Solstice Bells)
05. Farm, The Fourway (Farm On The Freeway)
06. We Used To Bach (We Used To Know / Bach Prelude C Maj)
07. Velvet Gold (Velvet Green)
08. Pass The Bottle (A Christmas Song)
09. Loco (Locomotive Breath)
10. Only The Giving (Wond’ring Aloud)
11. Songs And Horses (Songs From The Wood / Heavy Horses)
12. Aquafugue (Aqualung)

Δελτίο τύπου: «The String Quartets is a new album by Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson and the Carducci Quartet featuring the classic songs of Jethro Tull, arranged and orchestrated by John O’Hara. Ian plays flute on most of the tracks and even sings a few lines here and there to provide his trademark sounds in the context of classical music traditions.

Living In The Past, Aqualung, Locomotive Breath and Bungle In The Jungle are amongst the album track listing but appear, along with their fellow musical travelers, under more cryptic titles to differentiate them from the original recordings and arrangements.

Recorded in the crypt of Worcester Cathedral, UK and in St Kenelm’s Church, Sapperton, Gloucestershire, UK, Ian says that this album is "Perfect for lazy, long sunny afternoons, crisp winter nights, weddings and funerals." He forgot to add, perfect also after a night of wild, abandoned sex or to celebrate the win of your favourite football team. Essentially, anytime music for sophisticated lovers of Classic Rock too afraid to wear their Tull T-shirt at the village barbecue.»

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Ian Anderson: Homo Erraticus (videos)

Ο "μεγάλος" Ian Anderson, των Jethro Tull, θα "χτυπήσει" δισκογραφικά μέσα στον μήνα και η εταιρεία Kscope μας ενημερώνει και μας προετοιμάζει:

«Legendary prog pioneer Ian Anderson has announced the imminent release of new studio album Homo Erraticus. The record will be out on 14th April on the artist’s own label imprint Calliandra Records in conjunction with Kscope, to coincide with Anderson’s 2014 UK tour.

In 1972 Jethro Tull released iconic concept album Thick As A Brick, based on a poem by child prodigy Gerald Bostock; in 2012, as fans wondered what happened to Bostock, Ian Anderson explored the different paths his life might have taken in Thick As A Brick 2. With Homo Erraticus enfant prodigy Gerald is back for real.

Following a 40 years’ political career, Bostock reunited with Anderson taking the role of tour manager on a string of shows. Homo Erraticus marks his return to songwriting, and it’s based on an unpublished manuscript by amateur historian Ernest T. Parritt (1865-1928).

In Homo Erraticus Parritt examines key events of British history with a string of prophecies stretching to the current day and the future; visions of past lives caused by the delirium of malaria generate the characters through whose eyes the stories are told, including a nomadic Neolithic settler, an iron Age blacksmith, a Christian monk, a turnpike innkeeper and even Prince Albert.»

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TRACKLIST
PART ONE: CHRONICLES
01. Doggerland
02. Heavy Metals
03. Enter The Uninvited
04. Puer Ferox Adventus
05. Meliora Sequamur
06. The Turnpike Inn
07. The Engineer
08. The Pax Britannica

PART TWO: PROPHECIES
09. Tripudium Ad Bellum
10. After These Wars
11. New Blood, Old Veins

PART THREE: REVELATIONS
12. In For A Pound
13. The Browning of the Green
14. Per Errationes Ad Astra
15. Cold Dead Reckoning

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ALBUM FORMATS

LIMITED DELUXE EDITION: The deluxe edition is a 4 disc set (2CD + 2DVD-V) presented in a 60 page hardback book, including "The Making of Homo Erraticus" on DVD, a bonus CD with an audio documentary and "hotel demos", plus a 5.1 surround sound mix of the album on DVD.

LIMITED CD/DVD-A EDITION: A limited 2 disc digibook edition, including a 5.1 surround mix of the album on DVD and a 24 page booklet.

DOUBLE VINYL EDITION: A double vinyl edition of the album pressed on heavyweight (180g) vinyl with a screen printed fourth side. Packaged in a gatefold sleeve with an 8 page booklet.

SINGLE CD EDITION: Ian Anderson’s new album "Homo Erraticus", presented in a single CD jewelcase with sleeve.

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THE BAND:
Ian Anderson (flute, guitar, vocals)
John O’Hara (keyboards)
Florian Opahle (lead guitar)
Ryan O’Donnell (vocals)
David Goodier (bass guitar)
Scott Hammond (drums, percussion)

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ΑΚΟΥΣΤΙΚΗ ΠΕΡΙΟΔΕΙΑ ΤΟΥ IAN ANDERSON

Ο Ian Anderson ανακοίνωσε πως τον προσεχή Σεπτέμβριο (2011) προγραμματίζει να βγει σε περιοδεία χωρίς τους Jethro Tull. Η solo περιοδεία θα είναι ένα, αποκλειστικά, ακουστικό set και θα πραγματοποιηθεί στη Μεγάλη Βρετανία.

«Πάντα ήθελα να περιοδεύσω στο Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο με ένα μικρό line-up, παίζοντας και ξαναδημιουργώντας τα τραγούδια μου έτσι ώστε να ταιριάζουν σε μια πιο προσωπική ατμόσφαιρα. Θέλω να κάνω τον κόσμο που θα έρθει να με δει να νιώσει πως βρίσκεται στο σαλόνι μου, παρακολουθώντας μια "οικογενειακή" συναυλία».

Μαζί με τον Anderson θα είναι ο Γερμανός κιθαρίστας Florian Opahle και ο πιανίστας John O' Hara. Στις συναυλίες θα ακουστούν γνωστά (κι όχι μόνο) τραγούδια των Jethro Tull και άλλα διασκευασμένα καταλλήλως κομμάτια της μπάντας. Ο Anderson έχει υποσχεθεί να ακουστούν και μερικά καινούρια τραγούδια.

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