Progressive Rock
Ian Anderson will release a seven-CD edition of “8314 Boxed”, the box set gathering his solo work, through Madfish on 4 December, with a 96-page hardback book featuring a foreword by Anderson, liner notes by Paul Sexton and exclusive photographs. The set first came out on 23 August 2024 as a ten-LP collection.
The box holds six studio albums from 1983 to 2014: “Walk Into Light” (1983), “Divinities: Twelve Dances with God” (1995), “The Secret Language of Birds” (2000), “Rupi’s Dance” (2003), “Thick as a Brick 2” (2012) and “Homo Erraticus” (2014). The seventh disc, “Roaming in the Gloaming”, collects live recordings from 1995 to 2007 that hadn’t been released before the vinyl box.
“These records all stand out for me as being quite different from each other and in some ways demonstrate a broader depth of my songwriting. The flute instrumental ‘Divinities’ record is one of my favourites to this day,” the Jethro Tull singer and flautist says in the label’s announcement.
“Thick as a Brick 2” picks up the story of Gerald Bostock forty years on: he’s the made-up boy poet Jethro Tull invented for “Thick as a Brick” in 1972.
The 2024 box was the first time “Divinities”, “The Secret Language of Birds” and “Rupi’s Dance” had ever been pressed on vinyl.
Text by Guillem Cardós