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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 12, 2021 7:55:46 GMT
About time this lyric book had its own thread Ian Anderson will release new lyric book in JuneIan Anderson will release a new lyric book in June. Silent Singing collects the complete lyrics from all of the Jethro Tull and Anderson's solo albums in one deluxe, landscape hardback book. It also includes 30 photographs taken by Anderson to illustrate certain songs, specially written introductions specially written introductions to each album and scans of original, hand-written song lyrics Silent Singing will be published by Rocket 88 books, the publishing company behind recent books about Jethro Tull and Opeth, later this year. Anderson introduces the new book in a teaser video which you can watch below. "Ian has combed through everything from This Was in 1968 to present day, taking in all of his solo albums and tracks released only on box sets and compilations, to collate more than 300 song lyrics," says the publishers. "After listening to original masters, checking notebooks and song sheets, Ian is confident that this book represents the complete, collected lyrics of his more than six decade-long career." There will be two hardback editions of Silent Singing, one of which will be signed and come with an exclusive art print of an Ian Anderson original photograph. Fans can sign up now for a chance to get a copy at a pre-order discount, a name printed in the book and all the news — including the first choice of a Classic or Signature editions.
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Post by schubertmachiavelli on Feb 12, 2021 15:09:24 GMT
In like Flynn for this. The classic edition, if the £30 price tag is correct, is worth every penny. A book for the (Dark) ages. The Signature edition… well, that's up to the conscience of the individual buyer!
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 17, 2021 7:45:57 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 18, 2021 7:30:46 GMT
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Post by jackinthegreen on Mar 18, 2021 14:54:51 GMT
I ordered the Classic edition yesterday, just under £35 including postage. Looks like it will be a nice thing to have, like a book of poetry because in my opinion Ian is a poet
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Post by schubertmachiavelli on Mar 18, 2021 17:29:35 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 18, 2021 17:34:47 GMT
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jethro-tull-ian-anderson-zealot-gene-1143216/Ian Anderson Teases New Jethro Tull Album in Video for ‘Silent Singing’ Lyrics BookThe Zealot Gene is Tull’s first new album in nearly 20 years By BRENNA EHRLICH Ian Anderson is prepping a new book, Silent Singing, that compiles all his lyrics, from 1968’s This Was to Jethro Tull’s as-yet-unreleased new album The Zealot Gene. The book, out in June, is now available for preorder. “There’s a line in [‘The Zealot Gene’], the title track, which says, ‘Bee buzzing in your bonnet/and a wasp right up the bum/a V8 under hood/a cocked hammer under thumb,'” Anderson tells Rolling Stone. “It’s about getting your knickers in a twist, we would say. Getting hot and bothered and agitated. I’m not a Twitter guy at all, but ‘we know who’ is the arch Twitterer of recent years, which was both a success and ultimately his downfall. It’s that kind of vehemence or zealotry, which comes with a point of view and wanting to indoctrinate people with a very polarized and divisive view. There’s a little bit of that in all of us. We all have that capability.” The Zealot Gene will be Tull’s first album in nearly 20 years, their last being a Christmas album that arrived in 2003. Anderson has been steadily releasing solo records in the interim though, with Homo Erraticus arriving in 2014. The musician says he doesn’t know when Tull’s new album will be released, but he’s about three-quarters of the way through recording it (the band started working on it in 2017). The lyrics to the songs from The Zealot Gene will still be included in Silent Singing though, despite not being officially released at the time of publication. Anderson has been working on Silent Singing — which also features photos by the musician — during the Covid-19 pandemic. “It’s not that I see it as being poetry,” he says of the lyrics included in the book. “I wouldn’t want to be thought of as a jumped-up poet who, in retrospect, thinks, ‘Oh, my lyrics are really good; they can stand alone without the music.’ It is simply putting on the record the correct, accurately transcribed, entire catalog of songs.” Anderson listened to each of the hundreds of songs included in the book several times to ensure that he’d copied the lyrics down correctly. “[There was] a lot of work in terms of checking and editing [the songs],” he says. “I had it in mind to do this one day, and it just seemed, in the pandemic year of 2020, a good time to do at least one thing that would potentially be a little income.”
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 18, 2021 17:37:49 GMT
I ordered the Classic edition yesterday, just under £35 including postage. Looks like it will be a nice thing to have, like a book of poetry because in my opinion Ian is a poet Yeah - me too
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Post by Jack -A- Lynn on Mar 20, 2021 12:04:48 GMT
I ordered the Classic edition yesterday, just under £35 including postage. Looks like it will be a nice thing to have, like a book of poetry because in my opinion Ian is a poet Yeah - me too I just ordered the Classic edition too 😁😁😁 Jack in the green, you are so right!
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 20, 2021 19:59:59 GMT
Chances of me buying this book: 99.99% ( I might die before I get home from work and pre-order, I guess)
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Post by Catqualung on Mar 20, 2021 20:52:59 GMT
The only reason why I may not buy this book is becouse I don't like the format with horizontal side longer than vertical size, which makes it difficult to place in a bookshelf
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Post by schubertmachiavelli on Mar 21, 2021 9:48:05 GMT
So, maybe turning the book round 90 degrees might be in order...?
I’m sure you won’t need to read the writing on the spine to remind you what book it is. 😉😉
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Post by JTull 007 on Mar 22, 2021 0:53:32 GMT
Chances of me buying this book: 99.99% ( I might die before I get home from work and pre-order, I guess) Dear JIM, Thanks for shopping at ROCKET88-US! 1 of Silent Singing (Classic Edition) - Hardback at $45.00 each. Roll of Honor name: Jim (JTull 007) Best wishes, ROCKET88-US
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Post by Catqualung on Mar 22, 2021 9:18:37 GMT
So, maybe turning the book round 90 degrees might be in order...? I’m sure you won’t need to read the writing on the spine to remind you what book it is. 😉😉 Argh, you right. Then I have no excuse left to save this money, let me go and buy it
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Post by JTull 007 on Mar 27, 2021 0:57:34 GMT
So, maybe turning the book round 90 degrees might be in order...? I’m sure you won’t need to read the writing on the spine to remind you what book it is. 😉😉 Argh, you right. Then I have no excuse left to save this money, let me go and buy it
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Post by jackinthegreen on Mar 27, 2021 1:38:09 GMT
Argh, you right. Then I have no excuse left to save this money, let me go and buy it Agreed, Orion might be one of the songs that can read like poetry.........awesome.......and then when the music is added...........a magic happens
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 11, 2021 6:24:43 GMT
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jethro-tull-silent-singing-excerpt-1151602/Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson Talks Poetry, Songwriting in ‘Silent Singing’ ExcerptTull’s first album in 20 years, The Zealot Gene, is also on the way By BRENNA EHRLICH Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson has spent much of the pandemic reading and re-reading old lyrics, all in preparation for his upcoming book, Silent Singing, out this June. The book features every single Tull song — from 1968’s This Was through Jethro Tull’s as-yet-unreleased new album The Zealot Gene — and Rolling Stone is premiering Anderson’s intro exclusively Wednesday, April 7th. “It’s not that I see it as being poetry,” Anderson says of the lyrics included in the book, which also includes photos taken by the musician. “I wouldn’t want to be thought of as a jumped-up poet who, in retrospect, thinks, ‘Oh, my lyrics are really good; they can stand alone without the music.’ It is simply putting on the record the correct, accurately transcribed, entire catalog of songs.” “[There was] a lot of work in terms of checking and editing [the songs],” he adds. “I had it in mind to do this one day, and it just seemed, in the pandemic year of 2020, a good time to do at least one thing that would potentially be a little income.” The Zealot Gene does not yet have a release date, but it will be the band’s first new album in nearly 20 years. The lyrics will be included in the book, then, before they’re released as music. Read on for Anderon’s thoughts on songwriting, lyrics, and poetry. Tricky buggers, song lyrics. They are not like poetry, where it merely has to look pretty on the page. Problem is, you scribble down the words and then the hour of reckoning arrives. Now you actually have to sing the stuff. Does the poet, while writing, think of his work being one day read aloud by himself/herself, or another person? I don’t know the answer, never having knowingly met a poet. I wonder what they are like. Are song lyrics more akin to a movie script? They might appear a little banal or simplistic in plain draft text but when the actor brings to bear the interpretation, delivery and theatricality, it can spark of sheer genius. Or not, depending on whether it’s a good day at the office. These lyrics were originally written only to be sung rather than passively read as poetry. Sung, their cadence marches in step with the rhythms, phrases and intricacies of the melodies. They may co-exist simply on the page and in the mind but, for me, they enjoy their full resonance when I hear them expressed musically. Depending on whether it was a good day at the office. I am a descriptive writer: not so often a storyteller and almost never a heart-on-sleeve love-rat. Social documentary that you can hum along to. I see something, I want to share it in word and music. That’s about the size of it. There are references and stereotypes in some songs that would be rightly perceived as politically incorrect and insensitive in today’s world. That was then and this is now. I wouldn’t wish to change the essence of the song if writing it today, but I might exercise discreet adjectival discretion! THE WRITING PROCESSWhich came first: the words or the music? That is a question I have often been asked. I wish I could provide a consistent and easy answer. In an ideal world, words and music would have their moment of conception precisely as one. If pressed, I might think of occasions when some musical elements came first – as in “Nothing Is Easy,” “Aqualung” or “Living in the Past.” Consciously written lyrics without any pre-existing music might include “Baker Street Muse” or “Puer Ferox Adventus,” for example. More often, I really can’t recall how exactly the first elements of a song came about. Only twice in my life have I collaborated in writing a song. Once was with my first wife Jennie who provided the photographic visuals and lyric text inspiration for the development of the rest of the song “Aqualung.” The other occasion was with Martin Barre on the free-form “Hot Mango Flush,” a song from the album Dot Com. Great result in the first case; not so good in the second. Otherwise, I fly solo. I don’t think I have it in me to be a good collaborator. I can’t readily loosen up emotionally with another person in that creative process. I am shy, repressed, insecure, inclined to self-loathing and prefer to keep all of the royalties. The great composers and librettists in classical and operatic works may have worked hand in hand in sublime partnership, but it is too often the composer we remember rather than the author of the libretto. In pop and rock music, there were notable partnerships a-plenty: Lennon and McCartney, Elton John and Bernie Taupin, even Jagger and Richards. Lennon and McCartney, I believe, acted as foils for each others’ songs rather than one being responsible for words and the other the music. I understand that Elton John wrote the music only after being provided first with the lyrics to fire up his musical imagination. On the other hand, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice had a partnership where Sir Tim was presumably the librettist and no more, receiving the music to which he had to then dream up lyrics, albeit with the benefit of a mutually agreed story or theme. But the vocal chorus lines of “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina” are, perhaps, what we remember best. True singer-songwriters are closer to having poet credentials. Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen immediately come to mind. Neither could be said to be masters of the instrument they used for accompaniment or sophisticated musical arrangers and bandleaders. Indeed their limited musical abilities may have been advantageous in allowing them unfettered freedom to take flight lyrically. I know I have always had a flush of excitement when writing a song using an instrument I can play only in simplistic and rudimentary fashion. It keeps you rooted in the basics when too much instrumental expertise can easily take you down overly complex paths. Often, I wake in the night with a snippet of an idea, either words or music. Or it could be while walking down a street, traveling on a train, in a plane, or a bus. As a songwriter searching for the muse who has not yet deigned to visit, I sometimes wonder: is that precious eventual visitation merely a chance, fleeting encounter with the subconscious mind-store of personal — perhaps childhood — experiences? Or are these images and ideas in some way a channeling of creative and emotional notions received mysteriously from the ether? Do they arrive as if from a crackly old valve radio randomly tuning in to messages from far-off radio transmitters outputting faint signals of wisdom and wonder? Perhaps the painter, writer and composer are born with, or have acquired, more refined mental radio receivers, more precisely tunable to those elusive frequencies. Or maybe we self-proclaimed artist types just have a low boredom threshold and an overworked imagination. I’ll settle for that. ‘Silent Singing: The Complete Lyrics Of Ian Anderson And Jethro Tull’ is published in June by Rocket 88 Books. Fans can get their name printed in the book by pre-ordering before Mon 12th April. Visit jethrotulllyricbook.com
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Post by JTull 007 on May 24, 2021 0:46:58 GMT
Ian Anderson signs Silent Singing
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Post by steelmonkey on May 29, 2021 20:28:07 GMT
It's gonna be a whole different experience to read the lyrics before hearing the songs. If I was the boss of the world, I would make them arrive together. One can only hope that publishing the lyrics reflects a very high state of confidence that the actual songs will see light of day. We live in hope.
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Jun 18, 2021 13:06:22 GMT
Is Ian dressed up like a druid? Is that what he is trying to be?
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 18, 2021 15:25:31 GMT
Is Ian dressed up like a druid? Is that what he is trying to be? A Trappist monk perhaps.
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 9, 2021 15:03:05 GMT
Silent Singing book update from Rocket 88Hello Graham We want to give you an update on Ian Anderson's Silent Singing, as production is taking a longer than we expected.There have been a lot of issues because of the pandemic, these have impacted on the supply of materials and on staffing at our suppliers. We are also seeing continued delays with shipping worldwide.
On a more positive note, Ian Anderson wanted to be sure we took time to add in the lyrics for the forthcoming Jethro Tull album Zealot Gene, which are as intriguing and original as his best work can be.
The books are with the printer right now, and are due to be in our warehouses ready to ship the at beginning of November. We look forward to sending your order to you then.
Please accept our apologies about the delay and do let us know if you need to change or update your order in light of this information.
All the best.
Rocket88
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 25, 2021 14:44:20 GMT
www.loudersound.com/Watch Ian Anderson unbox new book Silent Singing in new videoBy Jerry Ewing ( Prog ) about 1 hour ago 25/10/2021 Ian Anderson's new lyric book Silent Singing will be released in late November (Image credit: Rocket 88)Watch Ian Anderson unbox the limited signature edition of his upcoming lyric book Silent Singing, in a brand new video below. Silent Singing is published by Rocket 88 Books the week beginning November 8 providing no supply line delays. Silent Singing collects the complete lyrics from all of the Jethro Tull and Anderson's solo albums in one deluxe, landscape hardback book. It also includes 30 photographs taken by Anderson to illustrate certain songs, specially written introductions specially written introductions to each album and scans of original, hand-written song lyrics. "This handsome package includes the classic book of all the songs I've ver recorded with Jethro Tull and as a solo artist including the soon-to-be-released album The Zealot Gene," says Anderson. "The book has been signed by me and comes in this beautiful, special handmade box. Inside the box, as well as the book, is a numbered print of one of my photographs." There will be two hardback editions of Silent Singing, Classic or Signature editions. Pre-order Silent Signing.https://us.rocket88books.com/collections/silent-singing link
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 31, 2021 12:36:40 GMT
In my email in box today We want to give you an update on Ian Anderson's Silent Singing.
As you can see, the books are printed and have turned out just as well as we all hoped. Let Ian give you a preview of the Classic edition here:We have been battling continued delays worldwide but we're very pleased to say books are due to arrive in our warehouses in the next couple of weeks.
We are looking forward to sending you your order as soon as possible, so if your address details have changed since your order, please reply to this email to let us know.
All the best.
Rocket88
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 22, 2021 16:48:19 GMT
In like Flynn for this. The classic edition, if the £30 price tag is correct, is worth every penny. A book for the (Dark) ages. The Signature edition… well, that's up to the conscience of the individual buyer! My copy of Silent Singing (Classic edition) arrived today. Lots of interesting reading as the nights draw in and we get ready to ring out solstice bells.
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Post by schubertmachiavelli on Nov 22, 2021 22:37:37 GMT
Mine arrived today too! I’m thrilled with it, it’s a quality item, worth every penny I barely remember paying for it all those months ago! 😉
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Post by jackinthegreen on Nov 23, 2021 1:19:10 GMT
Mine arrived today too! I’m thrilled with it, it’s a quality item, worth every penny I barely remember paying for it all those months ago! 😉 My copy arrived today too, and I agree with you, a lovely thing to have
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Post by only1um on Nov 23, 2021 20:53:21 GMT
Got my copy of Silent Singing today. Little Easter egg. On the last lyric page is the lyrics for songs from 'The 40th anniversary release for The Broadsword and the Beast extra tracks' 2022 release.
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Post by smint100 on Nov 24, 2021 11:40:39 GMT
Got my copy of Silent Singing today. Little Easter egg. On the last lyric page is the lyrics for songs from 'The 40th anniversary release for The Broadsword and the Beast extra tracks' 2022 release. How exciting! Mine is on order (and I've also treated myself to the Ballad of Jethro Tull) which my husband will be giving to me as a Christmas present The Zealot Gene and the 2022 Broadsword release will be late birthday presents
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Post by steelmonkey on Nov 24, 2021 19:17:06 GMT
My mailman is dragging his or her feet. I want, dammit.
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