Roots to branches
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| Studio album by Jethro Tull | ||||
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Publication |
1995 |
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admission |
December 1994 to June 1995 |
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| Label (s) | Chrysalis | |||
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Title (number) |
11 |
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running time |
60:00 (CD) |
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Ian Anderson |
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Studio (s) |
Ian Anderson's studio |
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Roots to Branches is the nineteenth studio album by the British rock band Jethro Tull .
history
The album was first released on September 4, 1995 in the UK and on September 12, 1995 in the US. In January 2007 a new, remastered version with additional songs was released. It is the last Tull album with Dave Pegg on bass, who was represented in the first sessions by Steve Bailey because of a touring job at the Fairport Convention , and the first with keyboardist Andrew Giddings as an official band member. However, Giddings had already contributed to Catfish Rising (1991) as a session musician . It was also the last album Tull released on her long-term label Chrysalis Records .
album
It bears characteristics of Tull-classic 1970s art-rock and folk-rock roots, alongside jazz, Arabic and Far Eastern influences. All songs were written by Ian Anderson and recorded in his own studio in the winter of 1994/1995.
Production and musical style
This album was heavily influenced by Ian Anderson's trip to India. The style of the album has been referred to as the Indian version of Songs from the Wood .
Speaking of Roots to Branches , Ian Anderson said, “I see Roots To Branches as the 90s version of Stand Up because there are a lot of the things that I consider to be the most important elements of Jethro Tull. There's a lot of flute, a lot of riff- playing guitars, and quite a range of blues and classical influences on the Eastern motifs that are on Stand Up . ”On the flip side, Anderson adds that“ the only thing that makes me sad , is that I made it sound a little too much like the seventies. I deliberately made the album sound like a live performance so that it doesn't sound too much like 'studio'. But looking back, I think it should have been a bit more diverse. "
Texts
The title song is about religious fanaticism. In Valley is about a neighborhood dispute, which rises to tiefverwurzeltem hatred. At Last Forever is about the passing of a loved one.
reception
Allmusic gave an unimpressed but positive rating: “All the songs have a more sense of urgency than some of the newer Tull albums and some even have catchy melodies […] Anderson's flute sometimes picks up speed, Martin Barre's guitar still whines during the breaks and Doane Perry (drums), Dave Pegg (bass) and Steve Bailey (bass) make up a decent rhythm section. Not nearly as strong as Catfish Rising , but better than anything else since Heavy Horses . ”Alan Tepper wrote in Eclipsed that the album offers“ fast, rocky tracks on which Anderson was not afraid to play unusual scales […]. "It is" rhythmically more sophisticated again "and shows" [unexpected breaks, breakneck tempo changes and new harmony patterns ". Almost a year earlier he put the negative assessment of his colleague Sascha Seiler into perspective, who stated that Roots to Branches was "almost a total failure", only the functioning band interplay saved the album. The "atmospheric songs" came close to classics like Thick as a Brick , said Michael Rensen in Rock Hard .
Placements
The album sold worse than its predecessor and only reached number 114 on the US Billboard charts, but number 20 on the UK charts.
Track list
all songs composed by Ian Anderson
- Roots to Branches - 5:11
- Rare and Precious Chain - 3:35
- Out of the Noise - 3:25
- This Free Will - 4:05
- Valley - 6:07
- Dangerous Veils - 5:35
- Beside Myself - 5:50
- Wounded, Old and Treacherous - 7:50
- At Last, Forever - 7:55
- Stuck in the August Rain - 4:06
- Another Harry's Bar - 6:21
Release details
- 1995 UK, Capitol TCCHR 6109 release date September 12, 1995, cassette
- 1999 UK, Chrysalis CDCHR 6109 / Capitol release date 14 September 1999, CD
- 2006 UK, EMI Music Distribution 3710192 Release date September 29, 2006, CD
- 2007 UK, Chrysalis UK / Parlophone Release date 19 March 2007, digital
Web links
- Official site for the album (English)
- Reviews of Roots to Branches on the baby blue pages
- Roots to Branches at Allmusic (English)
- Detailed information about the individual versions of the sound carriers at musik-sammler.de
- Lyrics at cupofwonder.com (archive version )
- Information about the lyrics at cupofwonder.com (English, archive version )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Scott Allen Nollen: Jethro Tull. A History of the Band, 1968-2001 . McFarland, Jefferson, NC 2001, ISBN 0-7864-1101-5 , pp. 336 ( books.google.com.br ).
- ^ Jethro Tull Press: Guitar World, September 1999 . tullpress.com. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved March 22, 2016.
- ↑ a b Michael Rensen: Jethro Tull. Not in the mood for golf and tennis . In: Rock Hard . No. 103 , December 1995, p. 113 .
- ↑ Roots to Branches - Jethro Tull; Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards; AllMusic . allmusic.com. Retrieved March 22, 2016.
- ^ Alan Tepper: Jethro Tull. "4 albums" . In: Eclipsed . Rock magazine. No. 87 , November 2006, News from the Past, pp. 74 .
- ^ Sascha Seiler: Jethro Tull. Rock music from Hameln . In: Eclipsed . Rock magazine. 78 (December / January, 2005/2006), shopping list, p. 66 f .
- ↑ Album artist 51 - Jethro Tull . Tsort.info. Retrieved March 22, 2016.