Label: Chrysalis Records (UK), CDP 32 1040 2
Style: Progressive Rock, Gothic Rock, Folk Rock
Country: Blackpool, Lancashire, England
Time: 45:05
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 263 Mb
Jethro
Tull's second album-length composition, A Passion Play is very
different from - and not quite as successful as - Thick as a Brick. Ian
Anderson utilizes reams of biblical (and biblical-sounding) references,
interwoven with modern language, as a sort of a rock equivalent to T.S.
Eliot's The Wasteland. As with most progressive rock, the words seem
important and profound, but their meaning is anyone's guess ("The
ice-cream lady wet her drawers, to see you in the Passion Play..."),
with Anderson as a dour but engaging singer/sage (who, at least at one
point, seems to take on the role of a fallen angel). It helps to be
aware of the framing story, about a newly deceased man called to review
his life at the portals of heaven, who realizes that life on Earth is
preferable to eternity in paradise. But the music puts it over
successfully, a dazzling mix of old English folk and classical material,
reshaped in electric rock terms. The band is at its peak form,
sustaining the tension and anticipation of this album-length piece
across 45 minutes, although the music runs out of inspiration about five
minutes before it actually ends.
(allmusic.com/album/a-passion-play-mw0000036413)
Album recorded and mixed in the analog domain - AAD. That is, a minimum of digital processing.
A=Analog.
D=digital. The first letter stands for how the music was recorded. The
second letter for how it was mixed. The third letter stands for the
format (all CD's will have D as the last letter).
01. A Passion Play, Part 1 (21:35)
02. A Passion Play, Part 2 (23:30)
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