RökFlöte Jethro Tull

• 1Voluspo03:42
• 2Ginnungagap03:48
• 3Allfather02:44
• 4The Feathered Consort03:37
• 5Hammer on Hammer03:09
• 6Wolf Unchained04:58
• 7The Perfect One03:49
• 8Trickster (And the Mistletoe)03:00
• 9Cornucopia03:51
• 10The Navigators04:26
• 11Guardian's Watch03:28
• 12Ithavoll03:53
• 13The Navigators [Bonus Track] (Single Edit)03:24
• Total Runtime47:49

Info for RökFlöte

Jethro Tull are pleased to announce their 23rd studio album, ‘RökFlöte’, which is set for release on the 21st April 2023 via InsideOutMusic. Following 2022’s ‘The Zealot Gene’, the band's first album in two decades, Ian Anderson and the band are returning with a 12-track record based on the characters and roles of some of the principle gods of the old Norse paganism, and at the same time exploring the ‘RökFlöte’ - rock flute - which Jethro Tull has made iconic.

Ian Anderson, concert and alto flutes, flute d'Amour, Irish whistle, vocals
David Goodier, bass
John O’Hara, piano, keyboards, Hammond Organ
Scott Hammond, drums
Joe Parrish-James, electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin

Jethro Tull
formed in February 1968 from the ashes of two unsuccessful blues/rock bands of the era. Ian Anderson brought his unique and innovative style of flute playing to a public raised on the guitar based British bands who courted acceptance at London’s famous Marquee Club.

After their first tentative blues oriented album, titled “This Was,” the group moved through successive records towards a more progressive sound, and with “Aqualung” in 1971 achieved their first real international level of success.

A few hit singles, notably “Living in the Past,” livened up their early career although it was as an album band, with songs of real substance, that the group really took off, both on record and as a major live concert act.

So-called concept albums followed in the early 70’s (“Thick as a Brick” and “A Passion Play”) with the attendant platinum No. 1 album chart sales.

Tull survived the critical backlash of the return-to-basics later 70’s to produce some of their finest creative efforts which, although not quite matching the commercial success of the previous works, established the band as one of the truly creative exponents of progressive music throughout the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.

They have continued to constantly reinvent themselves, albeit with several personnel changes along the way.

Ian Anderson (flute and vocals) and Martin Barre (guitar) provide to this day the musical and historical backbone of the group, joined by Doane Perry on drums, Andrew Giddings on keyboards, and Jonathan Noyce on bass.

This album contains no booklet.