Roots to Branches

by Jethro Tull

Roots to Branches cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 1995
  • Label: Chrysalis
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 59:57
  • Community rating: 3.24/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Doane Perry, Andrew Giddings, Dave Pegg, Ian Anderson, Steve Bailey, Martin Barre

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Marking a distinct return to the highly complex, sprawling progressive structures of their 1970s zenith, Ian Anderson heavily incorporated Eastern musical scales and traditional Indian instrumentation into the band's classic sound. The heavily acoustic, jazz-inflected flute performances are supported by highly intricate, remarkably tight ensemble playing. The ambitious, world-music-flavored release was widely praised as the veteran group's most creatively vibrant effort in over a decade.

Genres

Descriptors: complex, progressive

Tracklist

  1. Roots To Branches (5:12)
  2. Rare And Precious Chain (3:34)
  3. Out Of The Noise (3:24)
  4. This Free Will (4:04)
  5. Valley (6:08)
  6. Dangerous Veils (5:33)
  7. Beside Myself (5:49)
  8. Wounded, Old And Treacherous (7:50)
  9. At Last, Forever (7:55)
  10. Stuck In The August Rain (4:06)
  11. Another Harry's Bar (6:22)

Credits

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