Just got shipping confirmation from Burning Shed, very nice
Me too !
Can't wait to get my hands on this one!
Jethro Tull - "Heavy Horses" (New Shoes Edition) to be released in February 2018!
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Me too !
Can't wait to get my hands on this one!
Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses album review
by Sid Smith
http://teamrock.com/review/2018-02-26/jethro-tull-heavy-horses-album-review
40 years of ploughing their own furrow
Like some lordly pied piper, Ian Anderson has led Jethro Tull’s legions of followers through many changes in style across 50 years. Having marched them from relatively simple rock songs through to extended suites and concept albums, the release of Heavy Horses followed Songs From The Wood, journeying into a folkloric landscape filled with bucolic tales and a hearty song. Appropriating the kinetic energy of jigs and reels and harnessing it into Tull’s music seems natural now, but it wasn’t to some folk’s tastes back in the day. 40 years on, as this five-disc demonstrates, Anderson was right to follow his own instincts.
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in Walden, his 1854 treatise on living in harmony with the land. One of the few writers in progressive music tackling the complexities and contradictions of the British class system, Anderson’s vision of a field tilled through an honest day’s work might suggest a romanticised portrait of the dignity of labour, but he’s canny enough to avoid unwelcome lapses into forelock-tugging nostalgia in his appreciation of times gone by.
Martin Barre’s biting tone and his impressive versatility imbue the material with such presence and vitality. That he carries off this animating role with such authority, regardless of whichever direction Tull embarked upon, speaks to the guitarist’s quiet, unflashy brilliance. Annotating the songs in much the same way that Anderson’s flute inscribes each track, Barre’s work possesses a reassuring depth, providing in a way a continuity of sorts that lets you know whatever the mode or muse, this is unmistakably, and authentically, Tull.
Barre is just one of the beneficiaries of Steven Wilson’s attention. Like his previous Tull remixes, Wilson manages the delicate business of simultaneously respecting the original parameters while broadening the available aural space. Delivering an impressive clarity, the elegant gallop of Rover, …And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps, and No Lullaby’s simmering percussion is especially exciting in their new, expansive settings.
The live show from Berne included in this edition packs such a terrific punch that it’s easy to understand why Anderson has been so effusive in his praise of King Crimson’s Jakko Jakszyk’s remixing efforts. While parts of 1978’s Bursting Out hailed from this performance, as good as that double album is, if you want to experience the full force of Tull in concert in the comfort of your own home, either in stereo or surround, this newly expanded version is definitely the one you should be reaching for.
by Sid Smith
http://teamrock.com/review/2018-02-26/jethro-tull-heavy-horses-album-review
40 years of ploughing their own furrow
Like some lordly pied piper, Ian Anderson has led Jethro Tull’s legions of followers through many changes in style across 50 years. Having marched them from relatively simple rock songs through to extended suites and concept albums, the release of Heavy Horses followed Songs From The Wood, journeying into a folkloric landscape filled with bucolic tales and a hearty song. Appropriating the kinetic energy of jigs and reels and harnessing it into Tull’s music seems natural now, but it wasn’t to some folk’s tastes back in the day. 40 years on, as this five-disc demonstrates, Anderson was right to follow his own instincts.
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in Walden, his 1854 treatise on living in harmony with the land. One of the few writers in progressive music tackling the complexities and contradictions of the British class system, Anderson’s vision of a field tilled through an honest day’s work might suggest a romanticised portrait of the dignity of labour, but he’s canny enough to avoid unwelcome lapses into forelock-tugging nostalgia in his appreciation of times gone by.
Martin Barre’s biting tone and his impressive versatility imbue the material with such presence and vitality. That he carries off this animating role with such authority, regardless of whichever direction Tull embarked upon, speaks to the guitarist’s quiet, unflashy brilliance. Annotating the songs in much the same way that Anderson’s flute inscribes each track, Barre’s work possesses a reassuring depth, providing in a way a continuity of sorts that lets you know whatever the mode or muse, this is unmistakably, and authentically, Tull.
Barre is just one of the beneficiaries of Steven Wilson’s attention. Like his previous Tull remixes, Wilson manages the delicate business of simultaneously respecting the original parameters while broadening the available aural space. Delivering an impressive clarity, the elegant gallop of Rover, …And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps, and No Lullaby’s simmering percussion is especially exciting in their new, expansive settings.
The live show from Berne included in this edition packs such a terrific punch that it’s easy to understand why Anderson has been so effusive in his praise of King Crimson’s Jakko Jakszyk’s remixing efforts. While parts of 1978’s Bursting Out hailed from this performance, as good as that double album is, if you want to experience the full force of Tull in concert in the comfort of your own home, either in stereo or surround, this newly expanded version is definitely the one you should be reaching for.
It's getting close now...bullmoose has packaged my set...pending charges on my credit card:banana:
Same here Clint man.....I'm glad I went ahead and ordered this. I've enjoyed all the Tull sets....and they are such a bargain...and for the most part...the same size packaging. Which is nice....just ask my shelf.
There are some songs on this one I actually like
I've never heard it.... :yikes
I'm talking about the whole box set...you know the concert stuff included.. you know a lot of those songs
Ah...gotcha. Either way, I will be a proud owner. These are such bargains...you cannot go wrong
Thought it had been delayed . . . yet still saying March 2nd release for me, but you may have ordered overseas. . . .
It was delayed...it was supposed to be out Feb 9th...
Ah, that's right . . . just in time for my birthday :banana:
kap'n krunch
2K Club - QQ Super Nova
a Pisces..huh???
You could say I swim with the fishes, but that phrase has a bad vibe now :yikes
I ordered mine last night from importcds (US$32.71 + shipping), and I just received notice that it had shipped.
Amazon.ca is selling it for CDN$63.31 plus tax (with free shipping) = US$56 ... so I saved about US$16.
Amazon.ca is selling it for CDN$63.31 plus tax (with free shipping) = US$56 ... so I saved about US$16.
hwkn
1K Club - QQ Shooting Star
I'll be getting mine on Friday[arriving at the store I ordered it from tomorrow]
Mine is also on its way from importcds.
Bender
300 Club - QQ All-Star
Well, the big river decided to flow a bit early today...WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!
Thoroughly enjoying this. Once again, this is the best deal going in surround to me. Wilson does such a great job. The Bursting Out is also very welcome. (I always liked that live album anyway).
:banana::banana::banana:
Thoroughly enjoying this. Once again, this is the best deal going in surround to me. Wilson does such a great job. The Bursting Out is also very welcome. (I always liked that live album anyway).
:banana::banana::banana:Well, the big river decided to flow a bit early today...WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!
Thoroughly enjoying this. Once again, this is the best deal going in surround to me. Wilson does such a great job. The Bursting Out is also very welcome. (I always liked that live album anyway).
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I love the big river reference...reminds me of posting on AVS "back in the day"...you weren't allowed to talk about amazon...just forum sponsors...I think Gos and I were scarred for life:yikes..you must live close to an amazon warehouse
Although Bullmoose hasn't notified me yet that it has been shipped...it has...they have a computer issue that still says my item is packaged but not shipped...it happened once before...only now I have a post office account that can detect a package in the mailstream headed to me..
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