ENCARTE: JETHRO TULL
Ian Anderson deliberando considerações sobre o material reunido em “Nightcap” (1993):
“This collection of hitherto unreleased recordings is now available at the request of the many hard-core Tull fans who have learned, over the years, of the existence of the material.
Most of the sessions for past studio albuns have produced and extra song or two surplus to requirements. Sometimes these pieces failed to make it on to a record because they were too similar to one of their brothers or sisters: sometimes, as the ear may just detect, because they were too different!
The infamous 1973 recording sessions at the Chateau D’Herouville, near Paris, were never completed due to ill-health, technical and production problems, and the sudden decision of the band to return to the U.K. from temporary and ill-advised tax exile.
Rather than continue with the Chateau Tapes, we decided to begin again with a virtually new work which quickly became the more down-beat and controversial ‘A Passion Play’. So, here we have it. Not a cup of tea for everyone, but a slightly dizzy night cap for old friends in need of that last draw before laying down their heads to dream of what might have been.
Ian Anderson, September 1993“