Jethro Tull: in uscita “The Jethro Tull Christmas Album – Fresh Snow At Christmas”, una riedizione deluxe del loro album natalizio del 2003
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Il rapporto dei JETHRO TULL con la stagione natalizia risale agli esordi della leggendaria band. Quest’oggi si rinnova per gli ammiratori dei giorni nostri e per i fan di lunga data, con l’uscita di un’edizione ampliata e remixata di “The Jethro Tull Christmas Album” del 2003 in arrivo su Inside Out Music il 6 dicembre 2024.
Con il titolo “The Jethro Tull Christmas Album – Fresh Snow At Christmas”, il 21esimo album in studio della band è stato remixato dai master originali da Bruce Soord (The Pineapple Thief), oltre a ricevere un nuovo trattamento audio surround sia in Dolby Atmos che in 5.1. Il formato limited deluxe 4CD + Blu-ray book-set presenta un artwork completamente nuovo, oltre a materiale dal vivo, e comprende i seguenti 5 dischi:
CD1: Original Album Mixes
CD2: 2024 Remixes by Bruce Soord
CD3: Christmas Live At St. Bride’s 2008 (newly remixed by Bruce Soord)
CD4: The Ian Anderson Band Live At St. Bride’s 2006 (previously unreleased)
Blu-ray: Dolby Atmos, 5.1 Surround Sound & High Resolution Stereo Mixes of The Jethro Tull Christmas Album, as well as High Resolution Stereo Mixes of both live recordings
Inoltre, l’album sarà pubblicato per la prima volta in vinile, in versione 2LP 180g Gatefold con i remix del 2024. I preordini sono disponibili qui: https://jethrotullband.lnk.to/
Questo è stato l’ultimo album in studio con la presenza del chitarrista di lunga data Martin Barre, che ha composto la strumentale di chiusura “A Winter Snowscape”. Nell’album compaiono anche il tastierista e fisarmonicista Andrew Giddings, il bassista Jonathan Noyce e i batteristi Doane Perry e James Duncan. Tra le composizioni di Anderson al debutto, l’iniziale “Birthday Card At Christmas” e “First Snow On Brooklyn”, mentre brani tradizionali come “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” e “We Five Kings” sono stati interpretati insieme alla “Pavane” di Fauré.
The Jethro Tull Christmas Album was much praised on first release, with Rolling Stone noting admiringly: “The originals simmer with eccentric, eclectic, folky energy, rocking ditties threaded through with Celtic stylings, jazzy undercurrents, Ian Anderson’s distinctive flute and wry humour.” Allmusic called it “perhaps the most satisfying Tull releases in 25 years.”
It included new interpretations of no fewer than seven Tull songs, including their first to be inspired by the holiday, 1968’s much-loved ‘A Christmas Song.’ That Anderson composition, which opened with lyrics interpolated from ‘Once in Royal David’s City,’ was the B-side of the band’s first UK chart single, ‘Love Story.’
“Some of the tracks are not necessarily Christmas songs; they’re more seasonal so that gives a broader window,” says Ian. “And then there are a couple of them that I quite often play in the middle of summer and say, ‘It’ll soon be Christmas – it’s in the diary. So let’s kick it off now.’ And that’s part of what I’ve done over the years since October of 1968 when I went into record ‘A Christmas Song. ‘So, yes – it goes back a long way.”
‘A Christmas Song’ was joined on the album by reworkings of such pieces as Tull’s 1976 festive hit ‘Ring Out Solstice Bells’; ‘Weathercock,’ first heard on 1978’s Heavy Horses; and ‘Another Christmas Song,’ from 1989’s Rock Island. Also among the re-recordings was J.S. Bach’s ‘Bourrée”, another longtime live favourite, inimitably imagined by Ian.
“Part of the joy of redoing those things,” he says, “is that you can…not necessarily recreate, but you can keep all the essential elements of the song and maybe declutter it a little bit and give it a fresh look, but essentially still staying faithful to the original arrangements.”
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