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Happy Birthday Ian Anderson, born 10th August 1947 in Dunfermline. After attending primary school in Edinburgh, his family relocated to Blackpool in 1959. Following a traditional Grammar school education, he moved on to Art college to study fine art before deciding on an attempt at a musical career. He was influenced by his father’s big band and jazz records and the emergence of rock music, but was disenchanted with the “show biz” style of early American rock and roll stars like Elvis Presley. In 1963 with some school friends he formed his first band The Blades, a soul and blues outfit. In 1965 they regrouped into The John Evan Band with major lineup changes. They disband two years later when Anderson moved to Luton. In his new surroundings, Ian meets the drummer Clive Bunker and the guitarist Mick Abrahams and with Glenn Cornick, a bassist - of The John Evan Band-, Anderson creates the seed of the group that would become the legendary Jethro Tull. Still enjoying a lengthy if intermittent ongoing career, Jethro Tull has released 30 studio and live albums, selling more than 60 million copies since the band first performed at London’s famous Marquee club. After undertaking more than 3000 concerts in forty-something countries throughout four decades, Tull has played typically 100 concerts each year to longstanding, as well as new fans worldwide. Widely recognized as the man who introduced the flute to rock music, Ian Anderson remains the crowned exponent of the popular and rock genres of flute playing. So far, no pretender to the throne has stepped forward. Ian also plays ethnic flutes and whistles together with acoustic guitar and the mandolin bouzouki, balalaika, saxophone, harmonica, and a variety of whistles. I briefly met Ian on Skye in 1987 on my way back from Benbecula where he had an estate and ran a Fish farm, well 11 fish farms as my research has unearthed, he also employed over 400 people before selling it in the 90’s. Anderson recalled in an interview how he started as a flautist… “ once owned a 1960s Fender Stratocaster, which had previously belonged to Lemmy Kilminster before he found fame with Motorhead. But when it dawned on me I was never going to catch up with the growing band of hotshot British guitarists at that time – Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton – I traded it in for a Selma Goldfield student flute worth £30. I knew Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton didn’t play the flute, so I thought I would be in with a chance. A lot of people told me it was a ridiculous trade because the Strat was worth at least £150. But in fact it was a great buy because learning to play it was the start of Jethro Tull.” Anderson lives on a farm in the southwest of England where he has a recording studio and office. He has been married for 37 years to Shona who is also an active director of their music and other companies. They have two children. In 2006 and 2010, he was awarded Doctorates in Literature from Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh and the Abertay University of Dundee. He received the Ivor Award for International Achievement in Music. Ian admits he owns no fast car, never yet having taken a driving test, and has a wardrobe of singularly uninspiring and drab leisurewear varying from light grey to black in colour. He still keeps a couple of off-road competition motorcycles, and a saxophone which he promises never to play again.

Our birthday boy likes to play more intinate venues rather than grand halls, I noticed in the past he has played in religious buildings like cathedrals, he said in an interview ‘Playing in a cathedral gives you a sense of history, responsibility, and humility’ He seems a man after my own heart, while I am not a religious man I do get this same feeling when visiting these sites.. It's not about profits for Jethro Tull, again I have posted that he doesn't charge over the top prices for his tickets, and when he plays in historical places he gives back….The profits from the sales of tickets for my Christmas concert in Bristol Cathedral will go to the upkeep of these sacred buildings, and, perhaps, also in support of the musical liturgy of the church.

Ian admits that he is responsible for an enormous carbon footprint over the years —" I’m a climate sinner — but I’ve planted over 50,000 mixed deciduous trees on our farm. Its heavy clay isn’t not capable of producing arable crops. At best, it grows grass for grazing, but some margins aren’t suitable; so we’ve extended our ancient woodlands with many oak trees. They are an emblem of the Anderson-family clan, whose legend is “Stand sure”.

Jethro Tull are playing Bristol Cathedral on December 11th, tickets are £25-45 snd Salisbury Cathedral next day. These dates are sandwiched between a European tour.

The video features the song, Dun Ringill, from the group's 1979 album Stormwatch, it is an ode to the Iron Age-era fort of the same name. The fort, located on the coast of the Isle of Skye in Scotland, was occupied by the Clan Mackinnon for centuries.[1] The ruins of Castle Ringill, located near Loch Slapin, were located on Anderson's Scottish property, thus inspiring him to write the song. Anderson explained: " Dun Ringill" [is] about the ruins of an old hillside in the Isle of Skye, off the west coast of Scotland, where Nordic invaders would have landed to pillage and plunder and the local folk would have hidden the women and children and the sheep under fortifications.

It's a cool video, pity it was filmed at Dover rather than on Skye though!

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May the Gods be With You

Thursday 27/6 and we are off to Gatwick to fly to Athens. Despite a bit of a rush getting to Victoria we managed to leave Pimlico at just after 11.00, catch the express train to Gatwick at 11.30 with about 90 seconds to spare (as Liz says, similar to my daily work habit whereby if I'm not running for the tram I consider myself early) and be at Gatwick at 12.00pm. Not bad going. An uneventful, though very crowded and over 1 hour late EzyJet flight to Athens followed, and given a 9.15pm arrival, we had arranged to be picked up from the airport. This was the best value thing as our driver had perfect English and was a font of knowledge on both Athens and the Peloppenese. He also discussed islands though thoroughly approved of the two we have booked to visit - Folegandros and Milos which was reassuring. He mentioned that he tries to encourage people to go to some of the lesser known ones. He actually suggested we pulled our phones out and took notes of his suggestions which we duly did. Great to have a welcoming and friendly intro to a country as opposed to some of the surly or disinterested and monosyllabic cabbies you can get. We always muse after the occasional bad experience (like the guy who terrified us with his driving and then short changed us in Istanbul or the guy in Valletta who spent the journey screaming down the phone at someone) as to why there is not some better intro to many countries. Still, luckily these are generally exceptions though the good guys like this one and a chap in Kraków stick out. Most fall into the disinterested segment. Guess country publicist and tour guide is not what they are paid to do. Anyway I digress. We reached our quite central hotel the Evripides in about an hour, checked in and headed out for something to eat. It was now 10.30pm and we weren't sure what would be open. The hotel receptionist and driver had made a couple of recommendations and we headed for one. Within a 6/7 minute walk we were in a busy square with cafes, bars and general hubbub. We found a restaurant complete with bouzouki player and ordered drinks and dinner. Liz the chicken Gyros and me calamari. Liz's was the winner with copious quantities and quite tasty we could have just shared that. Lesson learned immediately on quantities. It was very pleasant sitting there and we had a little wander round post dinner, spotted a possible candidate for dinner the next night and headed home. Tomorrow an early start to beat the crowds and heat to the Acropolis and Parthenon. We were up at 6.40 am after about 6 hours sleep, had breakfast at the hotel and headed off on foot for what was supposedly a 15-20 minute walk mostly uphill. It's not hard to see the Acropolis/Parthenon as it overlooks the city and we had a clear view of it from our hotel dining room and our balcony. However, though given directions we soon got a bit lost and the view of our objective was obscured by the buildings once in the backstreets. Also google maps seemed to be sending us in circles. 45 minutes later we arrived a bit flustered. We had a little bit of luck with the queue as I happened to be in what I thought was a short enquiry queue but turned out you could buy tickets there so we probably made up our lost time. It was certainly warm, around the 30 mark, and it was still only 9.00 am. We made our way up the hill towards the Parthenon which is really the centrepiece of the Acropolis which is the name for the whole area on which the Parthenon and other related ancient buildings are situated. The entry gates are magnificent and the Parthenon is vast and grand and quite moving to look at. Completed in 438 BC and dedicated to the Goddess Athena as is most of the Acropolis site it is the largest Doric temple ever completed in Greece. We wandered around taking it all in. Of course now we could visualise what the building might have looked like with the frieze, which is now partly in the British Museum, in place. Not that the originals, even if back in Greece, will ever go back up there. You would have to go the Acropolis Museum to see them, together with the ones that the Greeks retained. It's interesting though that the Greeks seem prepared to augment a little to replicate how things might have looked (see next para) so you wonder if they might contemplate sticking replicas up. Another large and well restored building on the site is the Erechtheion temple. At one end is an olive tree said to have been created by Athena. The Greeks took a cutting during WW11 to protect it from the Germans and the current tree was planted from that cutting in 1952. Also part of the temple includes 6 larger than life columns of maidens known as the Caryatids. The ones on site are plaster cast replicas with the originals in the Acropolis museum which we were heading to next. That is they are all in that museum apart from 1 column which our old mate Lord Elgin carted off to the British Museum. They'd like that back too. Visiting this site is another of those quite spiritual things. The history, the magnificence of the architecture, the significance to the Greek people and the ancient world, it's positioning - with a 360 degree view of the city, also visible from all corners of the city including at night when it is lit up. It gives you the sense that it is one of those reassuring icons - as long as it's there everything will be alright. A lot of tourists but not too bad and by the time we left the site perhaps just over an hour and a half after entry the numbers entering were noticeably increasing so we felt pretty good about our decision to make the effort get up and arrive early. It was now sweltering, around mid thirties and not too much shade. We made our way down towards the Acropolis Museum. This was going to be interesting as we would see those parts of the frieze which remained in Greece as well as a myriad of other artefacts. The museum is very modern and again we were pleased that arriving there around 11.00 meant that we zoomed in with no queuing. As we saw later as people finish their tour of the Acropolis they headed for the museum and there was a lengthy queue when we left around 2.00ish. The frieze is well set out on the top floor and you can walk around it gazing at the tablets at eye level. There are gaps of course including for the tablets in London. Also on view are the 5 columns of the maidens from the Erechtheion. Just too many things to mention throughout the museum - statues of animals mythical and real, Gods, Goddesses, men, women, gold coins, pots, jugs etc. Many, very exquisite. We broke for a pleasant lunch sitting outside under shade in the restaurant with a view up to the Parthenon towering above us. Pretty good. Post lunch one final look through for things we missed and then we started to head back to the hotel. The route back was much easier as we followed the throng and it was through the centre of town with shops, cafes, flea market all in full swing. It was lively. Arriving back around 3.00pm we settled back for some down time and some blog writing. Later, after drinks at a very pleasant cafe restaurant with a bit of people watching thrown in we headed back to our busy square of the previous night to have dinner. The place that we had identified the night before whilst quite characterful in terms of being in a small cut de sac off the main drag had a pretty basic menu of the pizza and chips variety with a few Greek dishes thrown in. So we went to the place recommended by the hotel clerk the previous night. This night it had a few more people in, the bouzouki and guitar were being played and singing was good. Liz had the stuffed peppers and me lamb and both were excellent as was the ambience. A good choice we had a very laid back and pleasant evening. The next day it was time to leave and we needed to pick up our car from Piraeus. We liked the Evripides Hotel, nothing flash but did the job, reasonably priced, staff friendly and breakfast quite adequate. Also very close to the action it's about a 300/400 metre walk down some quite run down streets to get to it. To be honest the run down streets seemed like classic Athens with a lot of cracked paving, some derelict buildings and closed shops amid active ones. That might not appeal to everyone especially at night but as we left, a tour group of 20 sooomethings had checked in so it was seeing a fair bit of business and the slightly run down location (though the hotel itself was classic 3 star and fine) didn't bother us. We'd happily stay there again.

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NEW CD OUT NOW! Totally Plucked is here! After a year of writing, rehearsing and recording, our first guitar duo album since There to Here is finally on the shelves. We feel the music on it really captures twelve months of influences and experiences, from playing live in 2019 to the dreamy, nature-filled days of early summer this year when the air outside our Brewhouse Studio was filled with birdsong and the gentle hum of bees. Covering a wide range of moods, from nimble fingered traditional tunes to more reflective pieces, the album's 14 tracks showcase steel and nylon string guitars along with mandolin, bouzouki, tenor guitar, bass, shruti box and low whistle. To order a copy, head over to our website: 👉 https://whalebone-music.com/buy 👈 link in bio! CDs (which come with a free digital download) are £10 plus £1.50 P&P and digital downloads are £5.00 🎧 #whalebone #whalebonemusic #cd #newcd #newalbum #newmusic #newmusicfriday #totallyplucked #acousticguitar #guitar #instrumental #instrumentalmusic (at Bridgnorth) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIYYbn0nk2W/?igshid=1nskawi3egn3m

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Starting Out

Hey People!

So, you’re here wondering what this blog is about, probably. Let me start out with me telling you blogging is absolutely new to me. I’m not even sure if this is the right format to be doing this in, or if this will actually be read by anybody... Why then start a blog?

Because I want to document something I didn’t document before with any other musical instrument: the process of learning how to play it. One of these things a musician often hears between sets is: “Yeah but, you know, for you it’s easy!” or “Nah, I could never do that”. This blog (I’d rather call it a documentation) is to prove all beginnings are hard. I’m writing this a couple of weeks after I actually started playing this new instrument, because I wasn’t sure if I was willing to show myself starting out. Why? Because most of the time it sounds horrible! (No really, it does.) But it is part of the learning process. Yes, this was there with the other instruments I play and most important: yes, it gets better! This part of learning however gets, for me at least, very close and personal. I’m not sure if others have this too: feeling that showing how you started out is rather... private I guess?

If you want to know immediately how it went, scroll down for the video!

So this is how it started: I play in an Irish band, where I play drums and bodhrán. Drums is nice for bigger venues since, well, it’s loud. Not that I play like a caveman, but you’d rather not have it in a tiny pub for a nice cozy session. For those circumstances I play bodhran or cajón, but that really leaves me out of a lot of the songs. Not all songs are nice with percussion. 

So I decided I wanted to play a melodic instrument, meaning an instrument which plays the actual tune (not chords or bass). Not just because it allows me to play most songs, I also just wanted to teach myself a melodic instrument from the Irish music tradition. I’m actually a music teacher and play multiple instruments already, but nothing you could regard as a “world instrument”. So what instrument was still available to choose for me? Our band already had fiddle, accordion, concertina, tin whistle, bouzouki, guitar and banjo covered. Even the occasional hurdy gurdy is there. But there was still one option left which didn’t enter the mix that much: 

Uilleann Pipes.

Now, I already knew about this instrument. When I hear it being played well I find the hairs in my neck immediately standing upright (in a good way!). There is something about bagpipes which really speaks to me and hearing Uilleann Pipes makes me feel Celtic at heart. Stupid maybe, but not less true. Side note: during a lecture about world instruments this instrument was used in an anecdote about the most difficult instruments to play. In front of an audience full of conservatory students, who themselves already play a fair tune on a wide range of instruments. Rather a bold statement to make.

I taught however I was not going to find one. Pipes are expensive! There’s a waiting line just to get one at some builders and after reading a lot I felt discouraged buying a cheaper one made in Asia. So that’s that I taught.

Enter our accordion player: Apparently he had a practise set at home, meaning only a melodypipe (called a “chanter”) with bag and bellows: the necessary basic stuff to learn the instrument. He allowed me to borrow it from him and take it home with me! 

I quickly found myself a chart of fingerings to use with the chanter (the different positions to play certain notes) and tried to get started. I heard you should start with long notes, since you need to pump the bellows out of time with the music. That worked a little, so I searched for a simple tune (know that being able to read sheet music already did make this easier). I tried out some stuff and managed a little bit... 

To make my statement: here’s my first attempt. Shot after some two or three days of practising. Enjoy!    *insert evil laugh*

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We found toward the start of today that our Aussie friends, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have become gatekeepers to a newborn child youngster called Sunday Rose.

What an all out case of defeating affliction these two are and we can just theory that their new young lady will grow up to be an able youngster. She obviously has the "right" characteristics.

Resulting to appearing in film and TV, Nicole Kidman landed her jump forward position in the 1989 Keith Urban Net Worth  spine chiller Dead Calm. Her presentations in a couple of motion pictures, for instance, To Die For (1995), Moulin Rouge! (2001), and The Hours (2002), have won her much fundamental recognition.

In 2003, she got her Star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California. She's similarly a UNIFEM and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, and a craftsman. Since she was bound to Australian watchmen in Honolulu, Hawaii, Nicole has twofold citizenship of Australia and the United States of America.

In 2006, Nicole Kidman was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, Australia's most raised standard resident regard.

Keith Urban, is a New Zealand Grammy-and ARIA-winning blue grass music craftsman. Urban began his job in Australia, having moved here at an early age, so we have promised him as an "Aussie". In 1991, Urban released a self-titled introduction assortment, and diagrammed four singles in Australia before moving to the United States in 1992.

Until this point, Urban has released a total of seven studio assortments (one of which was released interestingly in the United Kingdom), similarly as one assortment in The Ranch. 

He has illustrated more than fifteen singles on the U.S. country outlines, including seven Number Ones News Headlines Today and has won 2 Grammy Awards. A multi-instrumentalist, Urban plays acoustic and electric guitar, similarly as banjo, bass, mandolin, piano, bouzouki, and papoose.

Congratulations Nicole and Keith. We are a nation of happy Aussies today!

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OOC Information

Name: Lest

Age: 19

Pronouns: he/him

Timezone: EST

IC Information

Name: Aodhan Ward

Age/Years At Camp: 20 yrs old, has been coming since he was 15

Pronouns: he/him

God: Apollo

Powers: Audiokinesis - In addition to being able to easily pick up new instruments, he has an ability to put emotions and other feelings into music he plays. for example, he could play a note that gives a positive feel those who hear it that could be interpreted as a yes or positive response to something, or a handful of notes to portray being angry. While the feelings he puts into his music doesn't necessarily inflict that feeling onto listeners (though it can if he has the intent to and puts the energy into it, but it’s much more draining then just portraying a feeling.), it does add another guaranteed emotional layer to music being able to make happy songs inflict a sad feeling and vise versa. His instrument of choice is the irish bouzouki, which he carries on him at all times. Biokinesis - like most of his siblings, Aodhan can heal with his voice, however it's rarely used because he is selectively mute. He has tried to re-purpose this power to work with instruments with no avail. Misc - surprisingly athletic, and while he's skilled in many games he has terrible luck that usually result in him tripping or having his chances ruined somehow. Unlucky - Aodhan is plagued with terrible luck. He tends to carry good luck charms with him in an attempt to negate it and is willing to buy into pretty outlandish stuff in the name of a good luck charm. Selective muteness - not particularly a power, but an important aspect of himself. It stems from psychological problems and not a physical issue, so it can’t be fixed with ambrosia. He can speak to himself when he’s alone, or when he’s with people he feels close to and safe with. He can also sometimes make small humming sounds depending on how he feels in a specific situation.

Personality: Outwardly, Aodhan tries to be polite and easy to get along with, and while that isn’t necessarily a false front, his inability to speak most of the time ends up making him keep most of his thoughts to himself since he typically isn’t around anyone who knows ASL so he’d rather act easy to get along with to avoid tough situations where he’d have to explain himself. he’s a very frank person and isn’t he type to lie to keep someone else happy and he tends to give his opinion whether it’s wanted or not. He’s very expressive with his face and body language to make up for not being able to express himself with words most of the time. He gets bored easily but feels guilty admitting it so he tries not to show it but isn’t very good at it. He feels a drive, pretty much conditioned into him, to fit in with people around him and he’ll sometimes catch himself making slight and subtle changes to himself to fit in easier with whatever group he’s with. Though he tries to ignore it most of the time, the want to conform does win over sometimes so he can sometimes come off as fake or superficial to people. While it’s something he does pretty much unconsciously without realizing it, it’s something he hates doing and if he realizes he’s doing it it can throw off his mood for the entire day. Because of flip-flopping between what the “right” way to act is growing up, he doesn’t always have a solid sense of self and often relies on the way his peers act and follows their lead. When he’s alone he tends to be the most genuine and while he tries to be that around other people, it tends to get lost. As a genuine person, he’s very straightforward and while he’s definitely the type to complain about it later, he’ll put up with pretty much anything. Whiny tweens? He can suck it up and babysit them for the day. Annoying cabinmates? He’ll live, but just know he’ll complain about it pretty harshly later. He can be pretty snarky but typically keeps it to himself. He can be pretty lackadaisical in nature and doesn’t plan for the future, but just kind of takes whatever comes at him. He is actually very talkative when given the chance to be, but is content being in the background of most conversations and is fine going days without talking to anyone. He gets anxious in crowded places and around a lot of people, especially if he doesn’t know them well. He’s very self-reliant and doesn’t like or feel the need to rely on anyone else. He’s the type to not believe anything until he’s seen it himself. He’s very much a morning person. Also he’s a libra sun sagittarius moon if that says anything.

Appearance: short strawberry blonde curls frame a slightly tanned face littered with freckles. He has a very straight nose that's a bit on the larger side, and while he has a very diamond face shape, he doesn't have particularly strong features. His right eye is light blue and his left eye is a gold-yellow color. he has a scar on the right side of his lips and continuing down over his chin. His ears are on the larger side. While he is of irish descent, he was raised in the US and doesn't have an accent for the most part, but it can be heard in some words from being around his mother at home who does have a strong accent. He carries his bouzouki with him at all times, usually strapped to his back similar to a guitar. He has a bit of an athletic look and he doesn’t look particular built or muscular but he’s a far cry but being lanky. He likes loose and baggy clothes and favors more casual looks. He prefers comfort over style.

History: Aodhan was raised believing that he was nothing out of the ordinary. His mother, Cait, didn't want him to know about his father or about any powers he may have had. In their small midwest suburban town and to his mother, conformity was everything. When she remarried when Aodhan was 6, all the couple wanted was a normal family and a normal life and Cait figured that as long as she kept him away from his greek heritage and didn't tell him about his powers she would be able to have the normal life she craved, going to PTA meetings and baking muffins for the local churches bake sale. She had her way for 6 years before things started deviating from her dream of a white picket fence. She may have loved her new husband, but her new husband did not like Aodhan. He was always too loud, too energetic, too something. Cait was so wrapped up in her love and drive to fit in that she didn't notice, or perhaps chose not to. At such a young age the way he dealt with it was that he slowly stopped speaking, eventually dwindling to barely being able to speak at all. Most of the time, he was able to speak around his mother. He began learning ASL through a program at school and his parents were encouraged to learn on their own time, but they never did. There was always something, they were too busy to, they didn’t have time, they didn’t think his bout of muteness would last. When he was 10 years old and only able to speak when he was alone with his mother or with the few close friends he had, he begged Cait to let him pick up an instrument as a means of expressing himself. While she had tried to keep Aodhan away from instruments, fearful that they could trigger some power within him, she felt guilty and blamed herself for his selective muteness so she lent him his grandfather's irish bouzouki. She regretted her decision when within weeks he was playing it like he’d been playing it all his life, but she didn’t have the heart to take it away from him. The same year his mother and stepfather had a baby together. Aodhan adored his baby brother and especially loved to play music for him! He was able to speak around his brother. Aodhans earliest use of his powers was playing music to calm his brother down when he started crying. Aodhan didn’t completely understand what he was doing or how he was doing it, but he knew that he just had a way of playing music that would make his baby brother laugh. He proudly showed it to his mother one day, and she banned him from playing music for his brother. After that, his mother and stepfather began to heavily discourage him playing instruments and their negativity towards his music did make him drop the bouzouki for a time. He’d play along, he thought. He’d try to be the perfect son, despite the fact he couldn’t talk he did everything to be enough for them. Normal enough. Good enough. It worked for a few years, until he was 15. He had a friend over who found his bouzouki abandoned in the back of his closet and asked him about it. He told them he used to play it and told them about he used to play a certain way and it would make his brother stop crying, but his parents told him to stop playing when they found out. They asked him if he could play something to relieve their stress from schoolwork, half as a joke but aodhan said he’d give it a try since his parents weren’t home to hear. It turned out that there was a big upside to making sure that aodhan never used his powers or knew about his divine heritage all these years: he was almost completely off the radar from monsters. Keyword is almost. When Aodhan hard the scream of his little brother downstairs and ran downstairs, the last thing he expected to see was a monster ripping apart his kitchen. His first instinct was to keep his brother safe and ran in without thinking to pull his brother out of harm's way, only to put himself in more danger, earning him a scar down from his lip to the bottom of his chin that he would later explain away to people as “he fell”. They were lucky, very lucky. It was almost as if all the luck Aodhan had to use over the course of his life was used right then and there and he would never be lucky again. A Satyr who had been tailing the monster to find the demigod it was hunting swooped in at the last second and drove the monster off. Aodhan was sure that the boredom from living in the most generic town on the planet was really getting to him when he stood in the doorway of his kitchen, watching as a satyr yelled profanities after a monster out the back door. Turns out, it was much more than just boredom. After being left alone for nearly 15 years, the use of his powers was starting to attract monsters. Unlucky for him, this particular satyr didn’t speak ASL. after a back and forth attempt at signing and frantically looking for a pen and something to write on, Aodhan was left wondering if the leftovers he had earlier had gone bad something. Him, the son of the god apollo? No way, he thought. “That’s the stupidest thing i've ever heard. Im not gonna believe some fuckin goat man in my - there's a goat man in my kitchen. Either im losing my mind of maybe he isn’t spouting bullshit.” When Cait got home she realized she couldn’t hide it any longer and confessed the truth, Aodhan was the son of Apollo and she’d kept it and his powers a secret all these years. After a teary confession from Cait, Aodhan decided to go with the satyr back to camp half blood and new athens. After a lifetime of conformity and doing everything he could to be as normal as possible, he hoped that maybe he could finally catch a break. He typically stays at camp/new athens year-round but occasionally visits his family, but his relationship with his mother and stepfather have never been the same since the secret of his father's identity came out, but he is still close with his brother.

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Happy Birthday Ian Anderson, born 10th August 1947 in Dunfermline.

After attending primary school in Edinburgh, his family relocated to Blackpool in 1959. Following a traditional Grammar school education, he moved on to Art college to study fine art before deciding on an attempt at a musical career. He was influenced by his father’s big band and jazz records and the emergence of rock music, but was disenchanted with the “show biz” style of early American rock and roll stars like Elvis Presley.

In 1963 with some school friends he formed his first band The Blades, a soul and blues outfit. In 1965 they regrouped into The John Evan Band with major lineup changes. They disband two years later when Anderson moved to Luton. In his new surroundings, Ian meets the drummer Clive Bunker and the guitarist Mick Abrahams and with Glenn Cornick, a bassist - of The John Evan Band-, Anderson creates the seed of the group that would become the legendary Jethro Tull.

Still enjoying a lengthy if intermittent ongoing career, Jethro Tull has released 30 studio and live albums, selling more than 60 million copies since the band first performed at London’s famous Marquee club.

After undertaking more than 3000 concerts in forty-something countries throughout four decades, Tull has played typically 100 concerts each year to longstanding, as well as new fans worldwide.

Widely recognized as the man who introduced the flute to rock music, Ian Anderson remains the crowned exponent of the popular and rock genres of flute playing. So far, no pretender to the throne has stepped forward. Ian also plays ethnic flutes and whistles together with acoustic guitar and the mandolin bouzouki, balalaika, saxophone, harmonica, and a variety of whistles.

I briefly met Ian on Skye in 1987 on my way back from Benbecula where he had an estate and ran a Fish farm, well 11 fish farms as my research has unearthed, he also employed over 400 people before selling it in the 90’s.

Anderson recalled in an interview how he started as a flautist…

“ once owned a 1960s Fender Stratocaster, which had previously belonged to Lemmy Kilminster before he found fame with Motorhead. But when it dawned on me I was never going to catch up with the growing band of hotshot British guitarists at that time – Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton – I traded it in for a Selma Goldfield student flute worth £30.

I knew Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton didn’t play the flute, so I thought I would be in with a chance. A lot of people told me it was a ridiculous trade because the Strat was worth at least £150. But in fact it was a great buy because learning to play it was the start of Jethro Tull.”

Anderson lives on a farm in the southwest of England where he has a recording studio and office. He has been married for 37 years to Shona who is also an active director of their music and other companies. They have two children.

In 2006 and 2010, he was awarded Doctorates in Literature from Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh and the Abertay University of Dundee. He received the Ivor Award for International Achievement in Music.

Ian admits he owns no fast car, never yet having taken a driving test, and has a wardrobe of singularly uninspiring and drab leisurewear varying from light grey to black in colour. He still keeps a couple of off-road competition motorcycles, and a saxophone which he promises never to play again.

Jethro Tull are about to start a US tour on Friday, Aug. 18th, at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Illinois. They will however be hopping over the Atlantic to perform in Europe during the tour.

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A Musical Instrument Buying Guide For Classical Guitar & Double Bass Sale

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Wind Atlas ‎– Lingua Ignota

Label: Gradual Hate Records ‎– GH139 CD, Twilight Records ‎– TW 1.156 Format: CD, Album Country: Spain Released: June 2018 Style: Darkwave, Folk, Psychedelic Rock, Post-Punk, Experimental

Recorded and mixed by Javier Ortiz Fullton at Estudios Brazil in december 2014. Studio Assistant: Marcos Bandera. Mastered at Yves Roussel Mastering by Yves Roussel in january 2015. Cover art is "Magic Circle" (1886) by John William Waterhouse. Artwork designed by Raúl Q. de Orte.

Credits Backing Vocals – Raúl Pérez Pérez, Raúl Q. De Orte, Sergi Alejandre Bass – Iván Montero Bouzouki – Sergi Alejandre Drums – Raúl Pérez Pérez Guitar – Sergi Alejandre Lead Vocals – Andrea Pérez Mastered By – Ives Roussel Mixed By – Javier Ortiz Recorded By – Javier Ortiz Santoor – Raúl Pérez Pérez Synth – Raúl Q. De Orte

Wind Atlas’ music has gained in nuances, drifting smoothly from dark dream-pop and new-wave passages (which remind us of Dead Can Dance) to gloomy postpunk atmospheres similar to those of Crispy Ambulance, Durruti Column or In Camera. Music to think of an unknown continent, to look for the lost alchemical formula, to eventually discover Talos the robot hurling rocks at the Argonauts. Music that requires to do nothing but listen, a task that nowadays appears almost impossible.

The message is conveyed in an imagined language from a terra incognita, the lingua ignota. Each song is like an accent or a period, like a comma, a verse, a whole chapter of a liturgical chant. Gibberish for those who relish the best soundtrack by Basil Poledouris and the 4AD catalogue.

The album was recorded in Estudio Brazil (Madrid) with Javier Ortiz and mastered in Yves Roussel Mastering (Barcelona).

“Wind Atlas, if “Ecdisis” is any indication, sound a bit like Sioux Sioux after the Banshees broke up, if she had gone in a more interesting direction. Or maybe if Peter Murphy had started a project with Sioux Sioux? Something like that. Truth is, it doesn’t matter once those early Edge/Chameleons guitars, full of melodic urgency despite their simplicity, hit; the ritualistic feel of the backing turns up their immediacy even more, to the point where the whole composition seems to depend on them.

But that voice, ringing through the ether, also needs something, anything, to happen, lest the sands of time swallow her whole. It’s a mystical, otherworldly trip..."

La música de Wind Atlas es rica en detalles, deslizándose refinádamente de oscuros pasajes dream pop new wave (que bien traen a la memoria a Dead can Dance) a la bruma de atmósferas postpunk que podían hacer grupos como Crispy Ambulance, Durruti Column o In camera.

Música para pensar en un continente no conocido, buscando una formula alquímica perdida, y acabar descubriendo al robot de Talos apedreando argonautas. Mejor dejémoslo así, en no hacer nada mientras se escucha, una tarea que se nos plantea hoy en día imposible.

El mensaje se proyecta en un idioma imaginado de una terra incognita, la lengua ignota. Cada canción es como una tilde o un punto, como una coma, un versículo, un capitulo entero de un canto litúrgico. Un galimatías entre quienes disfrutan de la mejor banda sonora compuesta por Basil Poledouris y el catalogo de 4AD.

1.Eurydice's Chant 02:38 2.Sound Of Gold, Rhythm Of Jade 05:17 3.The Sun Rises 03:47 4.Hylé 02:40 5.Stalker 05:13 6.The Goddess Is Where It Is Venerated 05:43 7.Ecdisis 04:44 8.Demona 06:35 9.The Joy Of The Auloniad 02:30

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