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A PASSION PLAY

Jethro Tull

 

Prog Folk

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5 stars 1. The Passion Play (Part 1) Oh the year 73, all disks that out this year are fantastic! Well having spoken so.

Part 1, tension, the melody in the background, some noises, the stereo through the boxes, and increasing .... boom! Sound! The band starts the journey almost a theme tune with different hard and of course that the whole sound of Tull is there, but they opened the range of influences, for sure! The voice of Ian (which for me is one of the most vocal of all the prog fuck) enter almost like a chapel, a song. Part folk takes on a tragic and emotional, the guitars that Ian Anderson plays are excellent, the melody is difficult to engulir of first. But hey! we are here for different sound, not for more of the same! Another high point is the low Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond unparalleled, and even more from the battery of Barriemore Barlow. Some saxophones throughout downtown give a taste of more, and of course we have John Evans playing the keyboards, yuuupi! (laughs) Speaking of guitars Martin Barre is also very wronged because it is little remembered when it comes to guitar players! Injustice! The guy is very good. Lines excellent! More part melodicamente complex and difficult to digest is as follows, but as soon as you can throughout the indigestion becomes a pleasure, who want to run the risk! Then the flutes catch fire, this is another brand of Tull, the always excellent flutes of Ian, he plays the way of crude, not so classic, almost always in the fast passages of music. More parts and vocal melodies difficult. Why then an even more rock 'n' Roll, assobiável completely. Overall this disc is very complex, I think that is why most of the staff remember The Thick The Brick, which is also very complex, but the melodies are much more accessible, the guys here have tried it. It is a continuation but is not. Many pianos and counterpoints, conventions, and the narratives of John Evans who come very well in music, some classical vocal means' tiração of fun '(sic), and more rock. I love the parties that everything and move to the melodies and then suddenly changes again, that they are kings. Until today I wonder how so many parts fit on the head of personnel of the band! The 'near-final' with piano and voice is creepy! Here is a melody of guitar and a 'hit', some keyboards and flutes and of course the bottom solando like crazy. But the keyboards are even taking account of the epic final track.

02. The Passion Play (Part 2) - The Story Of The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles What opens the second part is The Story Of The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles, a tale 'child' which tells the story of a hare which loses the glasses and is helped by animals of the forest, not yet well understood that the co-relation music in the second part, but is so good to hear Jeffrey telling the whole story with that accent and I dragged me uncomfortable. The instrumental part of this is undoubtedly one of the prog worked throughout the world (only compared to the geniuses of the Gentle Giant, complex enough to say). When the band around it seems that nothing happened, back across the sensational tone of Jethro Tull we love. In this second part some passages resemble somewhat the Thick The Brick The first part, which is very natural. Many synthesizers animals across the track, sounds and everything back 'to normal', these guys are good. Many letter that disc (as well as before) is very complicated prepare these 'texts' for music giants. It is not just writing out, have to make some sense. There is a part near the end with guitars and a keyboard that's too much, a very nice melody martial, must have been written at least some four guitars here. And then ... The guitar comes with everything a melody that is not strange, I think now of the repertoire of the guys, some keyboards of hell and a fantastic voice!

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