JETHRO TULL – tribute album out now

This is a must-have for any self-respecting JETHRO TULL adherent and it will look great under any tree: The latest exciting MER Redux Series installment “Aqualung Redux” that hit the stores together with its equally exciting companion volume “The Very Best of Jethro Tull Redux” on Friday, December 6, 2024.

JETHRO TULL are musical giants with a unique sound – or rather sounds that have remained singular in the canon of rock music. Founded in Blackpool, Lancashire, in 1967 by the Scotsman Ian Anderson, the band has undergone several stylistic shifts and changes of image during their still ongoing career of many decades. Yet largely due to the characteristic voice of their frontman and the inclusion of a flute as an essential instrument, JETHRO TULL have always had an inimitable and easily recognisable trademark sonic fingerprint.

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Jethro Tull tribute album “Aqualung Redux”

Tracklist “Aqualung Redux”
1. Chris Goss & Alain Johannes ‘Aqualung’
2. The Well ‘Cross-Eyed Mary’
3. Osi and the Jupiter ‘Cheap Day Return’
4. Huntsmen ‘Mother Goose’
5. The Otolith ‘Wond’ring Aloud’
6. Motorpsycho ‘Up to Me‘
7. Big Scenic Nowhere ‘My God’
8. Saturna ‘Hymn 43’

9. Mammoth Volume ‘Slipstream’ 10. The Sword ‘Locomotive Breath’
11. Domkraft & Arvid Hällagård ‘Wind-Up’

JETHRO TULL have pushed the limits of what defines rock music from the start. Elements of classical music, jazz, and traditional music such as compound time signatures have led to the band being classified as art rock and later progressive rock – among a host of other terms. The British legend has managed to balance the tightrope between art, wide appeal and commercial success with seeming ease. This was helped by the outstanding showmanship of Ian Anderson, whose stagecraft and performances even rivalled his contemporary, the legendary British singer Arthur Brown.

With their best-selling album “Aqualung” (1971) that has by now sold more than 7 million copies worldwide, JETHRO TULL achieved their major breakthrough and became a global household name as a rock band on radio shows and on tours. “Aqualung” primarily revolves around religion and faith but also tackles other subjects such as homelessness, but according to Ian Anderson it was not intended as a concept album. While the band continued to use elements of blues, hard rock, and psychedelia, it also added more folk style acoustic moments. The single track ‘Locomotive Breath’, taken from “Aqualung”, is probably the best known and most covered tune of JETHRO TULL.
 
Magnetic Eye’s Redux Series was created to pay homage to classic albums from across music history. The label has charged themselves as chroniclers and archivists to contribute to keeping the memory of outstanding artists and records alive and transfer their music to the sound of new generations. Heavy music has always experienced evolution in many directions, but the idea that a band led by an eccentric, mercurial Scotsman who integrated art pieces, social critiques, off-kilter humour and yes, even a flute, proved to be delightfully appealing and finally irresistible.
 
That eccentric geniuses such as JETHRO TULL could become one of the most memorable and recognisable acts of the 1970s that continued to amaze throughout the next decades very much shows what a fun and crazy time those early days of rock’s exploration were.
 
With “Aqualung Redux” and “The Very Best of Jethro Tull Redux”, Magnetic Eye pay heavy tribute to the original art rock masters through an array of renditions by bands both iconic and new. JETHRO TULL were singular and a similar band might never come into existence today, but it is cool as hell that their legacy continues to live on more than five decades later. Magnetic Eye proudly uphold and endorse their lasting greatness with this respectful homage.

The Magnetic Eye Redux Series features hand-picked classic albums from across the history of rock and metal re-imagined in their entirety from start to finish. Artists we love from within and outside the heavy rock landscape choose tracks to make their own, bringing these milestone records into the new millennium with crushing heaviness and searing energy. To date, we’ve produced Redux editions of PINK FLOYD’s “The Wall”, HELMET’s “Meantime”, BLACK SABBATH’s “Vol. 4”, HENDRIX’s “Electric Ladyland”, ALICE IN CHAINS’ “Dirt”, AC/DC’s “Back in Black”, and SOUNDGARDEN’s “Superunknown” which have included artists like RED FANG, MATT PIKE, PALLBEARER, THE MELVINS, ALL THEM WITCHES, KHEMMIS, ASG, SUPERSUCKERS, ZAKK WYLDE, MARK LANEGAN, RUBY THE HATCHET, and many other amazing artists.

Join us for our eighth foray into Redux territory as we pay proper respect to the unique British rock legends JETHRO TULL! 

Artist: Various Artists
Album: Aqualung Redux
Label: Magnetic Eye Records
Style: Doom, Stoner Rock & Metal, Psych Rock et al.
Release date: December 6, 2024

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Formats
“Aqualung Redux” is available as a gatefold oxblood red vinyl LP, a gatefold marbled clear, black & silver vinyl LP, and a gatefold black vinyl LP, and as a Digisleeve CD.