Jethro Tull ‘The Château D’Hérouville Sessions’ will be released as 2LP set on March 15, 2024 for the first time. Recorded in Paris, 1972 in the lead up to recording A Passion Play, The Chateau D’Herouville Sessions 2LP set contains the original 16 tracks mixed by Steven Wilson and a fourth side of recordings that were used on subsequent albums.

Prior to the release of their A Passion Play album in 1973, Jethro Tull recorded three sides of a double album at the Château d’Hérouville studio near Paris, France. Things did not go well, and the project was aborted. In the summer of 1972, the band were riding high on the crest of a popularity wave, as they sold out huge arenas on the back of their critically acclaimed, chart-topping fifth album ‘Thick As A Brick’. They went into the renowned studio, where the likes of David Bowie, Elton John, Pink Floyd and Cat Stevens had previously recorded at. The band quickly nicknamed it ‘Chateau D’isaster’ after a series of equipment failures, bed bugs and food poisoning.

 

Tracklist

Side A:

  1. The Big Top
  2. Scenario
  3. Audition
  4. Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day
  5. Sailor
  6. No Rehearsal

Side B:

  1. Left Right
  2. Solitare
  3. Critique Oblique (Part I)
  4. Critique Oblique (Part II)

Side C:

  1. Animelee (1st Dance)
  2. Animelee (2nd Dance)
  3. The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles
  4. Law of the Bungle (Part I)
  5. Tiger Toon
  6. Law of the Bungle (Part II)

Side D:

  1. Chateau D’isaster Tapes (Scenario/Audition/No Rehearsal) (1988 Box Set Mix)
  2. Only Solitare (1974 WarChild Mix)
  3. The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles (1973 A Passion Play Mix)
  4. Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day (1974 WarChild Mix)