Ian Anderson - Homo Erraticus (Mastered for iTunes)
The leader of Jethro Tull occasionally records a solo album that departs significantly from the output of his group (although it can be argued that every Tull album since the mid-'70s has, in effect, been an Anderson solo project supported by whatever musicians he chooses to call "Jethro Tull"). His solo material tends to be more overtly serious, and more oriented toward instrumental music than Tull's music. Two years after Thick as a Brick 2, an explicit 2012 sequel to the 1972 prog classic, Ian Anderson embarked on another ambitious journey, this time assembling a concept record called Homo Erraticus. A loose — very loose — album based on a "dusty, unpublished manuscript, written by local amateur historian Ernest T. Parritt (1873-1928)," Homo Erraticus is an old-fashioned prog record: it has narrative heft and ideas tied to the '70s, where jazz, classical, folk, orchestral pop, and rock all commingled in a thick, murky soup. Divorced from Tull, Anderson favors fruitiness — he likes ripe melodies and baroque arrangements that showcase either his flute or the dexterity of his band — and if the music by and large isn't as forceful as Aqualung, partially due to the absence of muscular musicians, it nevertheless demonstrates a clear-eyed conception that is in the same lineage. Yes, the production on Homo Erraticus is too precise — there's too much air, there's too much room to roam, decisions that diminish the impact of the music — but the contours of the compositions deliberately and delicately recall classic Tull, so Homo Erraticus winds up satisfying: it's as close to '70s prog as is possible in 2014.
Genres: Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Music, Rock, Arena Rock
Released: Apr 15, 2014
℗ 2014 Ian Anderson Under Licence To Kscope
Tracklist:
01 Doggerland
02 Heavy Metals
03 Enter the Uninvited
04 Puer Ferox Adventus
05 Meliora Sequamur
06 The Turnpike Inn
07 The Engineer
08 The Pax Britannica
09 Tripudium Ad Bellum
10 After These Wars
11 New Blood, Old Veins
12 In For a Pound
13 The Browning of the Green
14 Per Errationes Ad Astra
15 Cold Dead Reckoning
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