Song 356 (Ian Anderson - "A Better Moon")

Supposedly Albert Moulton Foweraker's Moonlight paintings were the inspiration for Ian Anderson's writing of this track. The song, as with the music on most of the album, contains Middle-Eastern, Indian, and Eastern music styles, which gives it a far off feeling musically; I especially love the use of the Goblet "Darbuka" drum. The Secret Language of Birds' sound is somewhat similar to the Jethro Tull J-Tull Dot Com album, only a bit more Progressive and classical in sound. This album does not see a lot of rotation in my collection, but every now and then I dust it down and give it a play; it is sad because it contains some of Ian's more interesting work.

Here is the studio version on YouTube.

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