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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2014 14:05:49 GMT
Nothing that won't clear up with a few hundred listens !
Well, I certainly will listen to it a couple hundred times. I am cursed with the inability to hit the "skip" button, and so I know all the songs intimately, even those few I don't like!
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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 5, 2014 14:47:24 GMT
Just made my own promo cd with interviews included. Going to ride around and get a feel for this "Homo Erraticus" in the best way I know how. Riding in the 'TULL MOBILE' God Bless the internet.
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 5, 2014 15:33:00 GMT
I don't want to be unduly negative, but I feel we should be able to give a balanced, honest view of things in a constructive manner. Disclaimer finished! Now, I like most of the tracks that have leaked from the new album, but "Enter the Uninvited" is a misfire, in my opinion. It's musicially sound, but the vocals... Ian as rapper? It just doesn't work. I respect him for trying new things, and without his dedication to taking chances we wouldn't have a lot of his best material from over the years. With experimentation comes the occasional failure, and "Enter the Uninvited" is a casualty of this process. I'm still looking forward to the album as a whole, though! NO!! my eyes can't unread what you've just posted. Ian (even slightly) rapping. see no snippets...read nothing about snippets...go and make dinner......
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Post by zombywoof92 on Apr 5, 2014 16:17:29 GMT
It's no worse than "Wounded, Old, and Treacherous", really ...
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 5, 2014 16:40:18 GMT
It's no worse than "Wounded, Old, and Treacherous", really ... That's true. Bernie's right - you can forget things. Or was it forgive?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2014 16:52:00 GMT
It's no worse than "Wounded, Old, and Treacherous", really ... That's true. Bernie's right - you can forget things. Or was it forgive? Sorry, nonrabbit! I should have said SPOILERS at the start of my post. I didn't mean to give anything away. I actually think it's a lot worse than "Wounded, Old, and Treacherous," actually... I like that song! But, as my late mother used to say, "That's why we have vanilla and chocolate ice cream, because people's tastes aren't the same!"
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 5, 2014 17:00:56 GMT
That's true. Bernie's right - you can forget things. Or was it forgive? Sorry, nonrabbit! I should have said SPOILERS at the start of my post. I didn't mean to give anything away. I actually think it's a lot worse than "Wounded, Old, and Treacherous," actually... I like that song! But, as my late mother used to say, "That's why we have vanilla and chocolate ice cream, because people's tastes aren't the same!" So true. The album was being played over the PA at the start of the album launch and from what I could hear it all seemed to hang together better as a complete item as opposed to individual edits. I think this will be an album that most people will listen to in one go and as a complete experience rather than cherry picking individual tracks.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2014 17:08:39 GMT
Sorry, nonrabbit! I should have said SPOILERS at the start of my post. I didn't mean to give anything away. I actually think it's a lot worse than "Wounded, Old, and Treacherous," actually... I like that song! But, as my late mother used to say, "That's why we have vanilla and chocolate ice cream, because people's tastes aren't the same!" So true. The album was being played over the PA at the start of the album launch and from what I could hear it all seemed to hang together better as a complete item as opposed to individual edits. I think this will be an album that most people will listen to in one go and as a complete experience rather than cherry picking individual tracks.
It must have been an exciting night! I don't want to give the wrong impression; I am REALLY looking forward to the album; I like 98% of everything IA has ever done, which is why I'm a fan. I think that's a pretty good ratio!
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Post by zombywoof92 on Apr 5, 2014 18:24:08 GMT
Sorry, nonrabbit! I should have said SPOILERS at the start of my post. I didn't mean to give anything away. I actually think it's a lot worse than "Wounded, Old, and Treacherous," actually... I like that song! But, as my late mother used to say, "That's why we have vanilla and chocolate ice cream, because people's tastes aren't the same!" So true. The album was being played over the PA at the start of the album launch and from what I could hear it all seemed to hang together better as a complete item as opposed to individual edits. I think this will be an album that most people will listen to in one go and as a complete experience rather than cherry picking individual tracks. Having heard the record a couple of times, this is spot on. This is what is making the track selection for my upcoming special very difficult ... it hangs together like a coherent piece of music and is better in it's entirety than listened to in bits and pieces.
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 5, 2014 21:30:04 GMT
I am so looking forward to full album fest. And I HATE 'Wounded, old and treacherous'.
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Post by futureshock on Apr 6, 2014 1:42:43 GMT
I am avoiding the snippet search and will listen to the new work as a unified field theory, in order to hopefully catch what concept album treachery was intended. Snippets, snippets, these musical crickets Nothing of thunder in slight little whispers Yeah but you and I are the most mature ones here anyway. First time I've ever been called "mature". Now I don't know WHAT to do............ LOL
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 6, 2014 2:17:24 GMT
Here's what to do: Consider the source.
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 6, 2014 9:41:46 GMT
somethingelsereviews.com/One Track Mind: Ian Anderson, “Enter the Uninvited” from Homo Erraticus (2014)BY NICK DERISOWhen all of the talk about concepts and recurring characters is done, an album like Ian Anderson’s forthcoming Gerald Bostock-themed Homo Erraticus must still have the musical goods — must still hold up on its own. The frenzied creativity surrounding “Enter the Uninvited” signals that it will. Simply overflowing with ideas, the song begins with a retrospective feel, as Anderson utilizes every tool on his crowded prog workbench. There’s an anticipatory keyboard rumination, a nostalgic aside on the flute and then a confrontational opening musical statement powered along by a serrated rhythm. Only then, after he’s seemingly reaffirmed every element of his legend as frontman and mastermind with Jethro Tull, does Anderson get down to the business of a narrative. Bringing in fin de siecle symbolism from the fall of a great empire, Anderson sets the stage for a modern examination of sloth and inattention punctuated by a series of tart images to make the point. His furiously inventive wordplay touches on burger kingdoms, Google distractions and Facebook obsessions, sheeps and pigs and tithes that are fatter still, Cold War spooks and John Birch loonies, Elvis hips and Monroe lips. There’s more, but you get the idea. Due on April 15, 2014 via Kscope, Homo Erraticus finds Anderson returning to a fictional figure who stood at the center both of Jethro Tull’s 1972 triumph Thick as a Brick, and Anderson’s own 2012 solo sequel. “Enter the Uninvited” shows that, despite that lengthy relationship, Bostock can still urge Anderson to greatness.
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 6, 2014 9:51:20 GMT
www.repubblica.it/ and translated from the Italian by google Ian Anderson: "I did not want to be a Clapton third-hand, so I chose the flute"ANDREA MORANDIThe leader of Jethro Tull released a new solo album, "Homo erraticus" full of prophecies and revelations, including rock, folk and metal. With his band (who will return to Italy in July) has sold 60 million records, entering in the history of rock. "But I never listened to contemporary music, even now. Did not listen to anything except classical" MILAN - Jacket fisherman, linen pants and a bag placed near, the man sitting in the corner of the hotel lobby looks like an English tourist've come to the wrong place, but it's a rockstar sixty million copies sold. Is sixty years old, a couple of deep lines that run through the front and secured a place in the history of music with albums like Aqualung and Thick as a Brick . His past is not a burden, indeed, when he speaks, Ian Anderson never lingers in nostalgia for the seventies Jethro Tull, remembers everything so dry and essential, always topped off with a shrug and a typical British cynicism. "You know when I started to realize that I could live with my music?" says seriously, fissandoti. "After Aqualung . was June of 1971 and it was already the fourth album we recorded with Tull. Just at that moment, when our agent called to tell me that we were in seventh place in the standings in the United States, I realized that it was made, that my life would be music. Prior no: I had seen dozens of bands disappear into thin air and I did not want to do their end. " In fact, fifty years from the dreams of Blackpool and the first band of friends - Blades, the year of grace 1962 - Ian Scott Anderson is still in business, still riding the intuition that, in 1967, made him abandon guitar in favor of the flute, simply because, "I wanted to become a mica Eric Clapton third hand. did not have enough talent for the guitar, so I chose to change." That decision opened the doors of the future and also those of the progressive that the singer himself helped to define with Stand Up , a record that in the autumn of 1969 did end up on the same shelf of the Tull Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Genesis, Camel, Gentle Giant and Yes "But I liked the blues," grins Anderson. "I grew up listening to music older than me: jazz records of my father, the blues of the great old American classic, that was the stuff that fascinated me, I wanted to redo, my ambition was to them." In 1969, refused to bring Jethro Tull in Woodstock, then went to America with Led Zeppelin and, while on tour with the Eagles, he suggested them - literally - Hotel California with her We used to know , to hear it again now practically a plagiarism. "But I never listened to music of my contemporaries, and even now, to be honest, do not listen to anything except classical. Actually, no, my wife (Shona Learoyd, with whom he lives since 1976, nda ) made me discover Recently an artist I had never heard, his name Meat Loaf. know him? 'I heard his Life Is A Lemon And I Want My Money Back and I found it really brilliant in its utter simplicity. " Simplicity: a term that Anderson often uses for others, not for himself and for his work, layered, complex, chock full of meaning, just as the new (excellent) solo album, Homo erraticus - Outgoing April 14 - divided into three parts, between the prophecies and revelations, rock, folk and metal. Basically a music book, that book "that one day I'd also like to write, but I'm not patient enough for literature." Meanwhile, in what promises to be yet another summer of Italian steel - from the Rolling Stones to Neil Young - even his Jethro Tull will return to Italy in July (19 in Brescia), with no regrets for the days of yesterday because today Anderson finds himself under the stage fathers to the children, and sometimes grandparents, generations that have passed on the cult of Tull shots Thick as a brick and - it is not a coincidence - today some of their videos on YouTube also coming to the tips of three million views. "What's changed since the beginning?" Asks slyly Anderson. "Let's see. Well, now it takes me a lot less to write a song. After so many years there is much trade, a precise methodology by which you can write as many as twenty or thirty songs for an album, no problems. The most difficult thing, however, remains always write the right song ... ". Then he gets up, closes the jacket fisherman hands you the index, ("Excuse me, I have a principle of tendonitis") and disappears behind a door, leaving his legend intact.
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 6, 2014 10:22:41 GMT
Yeah but you and I are the most mature ones here anyway. First time I've ever been called "mature". Now I don't know WHAT to do............ LOL Well don't post "LOL" or I'll take it back
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 6, 2014 10:24:50 GMT
Here's what to do: Consider the source. and yet we've never met.
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 7, 2014 8:39:04 GMT
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 7, 2014 14:31:18 GMT
Just a quick recap (for my benefit) a week before some of us (!) will be hearing the album for the first time - is Homo Erraticus man a fictional character of Gerald Bostock who is of course a fictional character of Ian Anderson who in turn will be performing the words, music and musings of Homo Erraticus man?
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Post by zombywoof92 on Apr 7, 2014 14:38:19 GMT
Homo Erraticus translates into "The Wandering Man" (hence the jacket art). "Homo Erraticus" is supposedly a manuscript uncovered by 'Gerald' and penned into lyrics for the album.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2014 14:44:25 GMT
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).
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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 7, 2014 14:56:45 GMT
I have no idea if this is a breech of forum etiquette, please let me know if it is, but this is from Craigz at my other favorite Tull Forum: "The following is a link to a music program called "Strange Currencies" on Wichita Public Radio, WMUW 89.1. On Wednesday's show, the track "Puer Ferox Adventus" from Homo Erraticus was played. Previous shows are archived and can be found down the page a bit above the embedded player. Select the "Wednesday" button. The track is found on the third segment, not counting the station ID segments. Use the "Next Segment" button below the player to advance. Look for a segment with a total length of 12:07. The track is played at the beginning of the the segment. "Doggerland" is played on the next segment, but that is old news" Anyways, perhaps this is the masterpiece! Love it, Love it, Love it! This and Enter the uninvited, have a really nice flow to them. kmuw.org/programs/strange-currency Damn straight! This is a great piece of music. There's a wild child coming!
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 7, 2014 15:22:24 GMT
I have no idea if this is a breech of forum etiquette, please let me know if it is, but this is from Craigz at my other favorite Tull Forum: "The following is a link to a music program called "Strange Currencies" on Wichita Public Radio, WMUW 89.1. On Wednesday's show, the track "Puer Ferox Adventus" from Homo Erraticus was played. Previous shows are archived and can be found down the page a bit above the embedded player. Select the "Wednesday" button. The track is found on the third segment, not counting the station ID segments. Use the "Next Segment" button below the player to advance. Look for a segment with a total length of 12:07. The track is played at the beginning of the the segment. "Doggerland" is played on the next segment, but that is old news" Anyways, perhaps this is the masterpiece! Love it, Love it, Love it! This and Enter the uninvited, have a really nice flow to them. kmuw.org/programs/strange-currency Damn straight! This is a great piece of music. There's a wild child coming! Absolutely. Many thanks for the link bassackwards. This could be one of the stand out tracks on the album. Love it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2014 17:14:08 GMT
blogcritics.org/music-review-ian-anderson-homo-erraticus/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=music-review-ian-anderson-homo-erraticusMusic Review: Ian Anderson – ‘Homo Erraticus’
Posted by: Jon Sobel April 7, 2014 Always fond of conceptual storytelling, Ian Anderson goes himself one better with his latest prog-folk-metal concept album. The 15 songs of Homo Erraticus inhabit not one but two metafictional layers. The Gerald Bostock character, hero/anti-hero of the seminal Jethro Tull album Thick as a Brick and its recent sequel Thick as a Brick 2, is back again, having now discovered a manuscript left behind in the 1920s by a malaria-ridden old British soldier delightfully named Ernest T. Parritt.
Parritt’s supposed writings range over northern European history from the Mesolithic era to his own – and on into his future, through the whole 20th century and into our own time and beyond. Winnowed into lyrics written by “Bostock” and set to music by the real protagonist of the story, Ian Anderson, these materials give Anderson – whose creative scope and energy remain robust even as his singing voice has thinned with age – a walk-in-closetful of pegs on which to hang a sequence of songs evoking nothing less than the history of mankind in his part of the world.
The first track, “Doggerland,” commemorates the area of the southern North Sea that used to be dry land connecting today’s British Isles with the rest of Europe. Doggerland vanished under the waves as the last Ice Age ended but, as fisherman discovered not long ago, the sea floor retains much archeological evidence of human occupation. The succeeding songs address migrations, metalworking, invasions (from the Romans to Burger King), the arrival of Christianity, the Industrial Revolution, and so on. To appreciate the songs, you’ll want to (at least once) follow along with the notes and lyrics in the accompanying 32-page booklet.
The Foreword, in which Anderson discusses the history of Jethro Tull and why he hasn’t used the band name for his last few recordings, will especially interest longtime Tull fans. The real question is, will the songs themselves? Some yes, some no. The gruff metal of “Doggerland” gives way to the sweet, plinking folk of “Heavy Metals.” (I imagine Anderson chuckling to himself at the irony – no pun intended – of creating such a gentle-sounding song with that title, and on that literal topic.) Both satisfy my Tull craving. “Meliora Sequamur” (Let Us Follow Better Things), which paints a picture of 12th century schoolboys amid religious chant (and cant), does too, and “The Turnpike Inn” is a solid rocker, and the hard-Celtic style of “The Engineer” moves briskly.
I like the instrumental track “Tripudium ad Bellum” (Dancing to War). It starts off with an echo of a theme from the original Thick as a Brick (there are others elsewhere on the album), then resolves into a 5/4 march, like a more insistent “Living in the Past.” War’s aftermath appears in the next track, the sad, deliberate “After These Wars,” in which I really feel the lack of Anderson’s full-strength vocals. While he was never among rock’s greatest singers, that didn’t matter – when he sang his songs, you always felt he was all there, and that’s what mattered. But now, and not only in the harder songs that shade into old-school heavy metal, his voice just isn’t always a match for his music’s energy any more.
On the other hand, his gift for crafting pleasing, original melodies, writing smart, clever lyrics in complete sentences and true rhyme, and setting much of it in non-traditional time signatures remains strong. The first verse of “After These Wars” reads:
After battle, with wounds to lick and beaus and belles all reuniting. Rationing, austerity: it did us good after the fighting. Now, time to bid some fond farewells and walk away from empires crumbling. Post-war baby-boom to fuel with post- Victorian half-dressed fumbling.
No one in pop music writes like that anymore.
Listening to the album as a complete conceptual work, my overall feeling is that there isn’t very much new here. Since the 1960s Anderson and Tull have explored countless different musical paths and styles. Some of these produced some of my all-time favorite songs and recordings. Others I hated. But he never seemed to be resting on his laurels. Here I feel like I’m reading a chapter that’s not much different from the last chapter.
But listening to the songs individually, I like a lot of them. As I write this I’m trying to count the beats of the off-time closer, “Cold Dead Reckoning,” with its grim imagery of a future of lost souls navigating their way over a metaphysical Doggerland “amongst the ranks and files of walking dead.” I hear crunching minor-key guitar-bass-piano unison figures, a sprightly flute solo. A hopeful verse about “angels watching over” at the end doesn’t convince me, as the music continues to growl on as before. Yet there follow a sweet, gentle instrumental coda, reminded us that while things may not turn out well for humanity as we teem over and ruin our only planet, our capacity to create and to appreciate beauty will be with us as long as we live. So let’s raise the cup of crimson wonder to Ian Anderson as he charges not-so-gently through his seventh decade.
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 8, 2014 8:02:08 GMT
A rather fine review - love the final sentence. So let’s raise the cup of crimson wonder to Ian Anderson as he charges not-so-gently through his seventh decade." Puer Ferox Adventus" just may become a minor classic - ticks all the boxes for me.
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Post by bunkerfan on Apr 8, 2014 18:33:23 GMT
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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 8, 2014 20:20:07 GMT
HOLY HOMO ! These shirts Rock and are the coolest design ever!
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 8, 2014 22:22:59 GMT
Burning Shed says my Homo is in the mail.....hurry mailman deliver de letter de sooner de better
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2014 1:59:59 GMT
IAN ANDERSON Interview: Migration, Human Sustainability, the Bible and Jesus Homo Erraticus' the new studio album by Ian Anderson Rating: 5 star April 8, 2014 by Ray Shasho -An In-Depth Interview with the Legendary Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull: Read more: www.examiner.com/review/ian-anderson-interview-migration-human-sustainability-the-bible-and-jesus Ian Anderson’s latest musical endeavor ‘HOMO ERRATICUS’ is an extraordinary and all-embracing musical arrangement that poetically and wittily interprets man’s pilgrimage with brilliant lyrical optimism. -I gave it (5) Stars!
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 9, 2014 10:37:57 GMT
HOLY HOMO ! These shirts Rock and are the coolest design ever! not only cool but really classy too.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2014 13:03:45 GMT
Very nice T-shirt designs; they obviously put a great deal of effort into them. A glow-in-the-dark coffee mug with the moon shining behind the wandering man would be lovely, too!
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