ROCK ON

by Jez Ford

JON ANDERSON 1000 Hands: Chapter One This is only Anderson’s second solo release of the millennium, though the title indicates the many collaborators here and on the other two ‘chapters’ yet to be released from this project which spans 30 years. His voice is as angelic as ever, the material just as cosmic, with bells and choirs climbing to the clouds in the paired pieces of First Born Leaders and Activate, alongside more deliberately simple arrangements layering vocal loops under his lead with often a single instrument plus rhythm below; it’s not hard to see this feeding into the breed of solo performance Anderson last brought to Australia in 2013. It’s nearly all upbeat, joyful, hopeful, assisted by Ian Anderson’s flute, Jean Luc Ponty’s fiddle, Chick Corea’s keys, wife Jane’s vocals on…

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Australian HiFi (Digital) - 1 Issue, May - June 2019

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