Jon Anderson Below The Radar

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What the hell?

Ahh, need this one...
But has anyone heard of the sequel to OLIAS OF SUNHILLOW? (Not sure of the source's accuracy, but I'll post it anyway)

Overview of the direction of Anderson's career
Central to Anderson's future plans is the question of whether he will have an ongoing relationship with Yes or not. Squire/Howe/White are touring without him, but Anderson and Squire have talked about a reunification in 2010—see on Yes news page. Anderson appears to be focusing on his solo career and some other collaborations, but it is unclear how his protracted ill health has effected plans.
In a Mar 2006 article, Anderson explained, "When I look back at the some of the artists I've met over the years, they're most creative [later in life]. Whether they're commercial is not the point. They're creative around 60 or 70 years old [...] there is that delicate balance of getting older and wiser and more in tune with your creative self." Anderson has talked about his current and future plans in a number of interviews: while it is hard to join up all the dots, perhaps often reflecting how the plans being described are still in flux, four broad themes had emerged, but it is as yet unclear how what impact his health problems may have:

Anderson has been keen to tackle a substantial backlog of projects and musical ideas. In a Jan 2005 Rockline interview, he said his new year's resolution was "to finish all the songs and projects I've started and not finished for the last twenty years." In a circa May 2004 JamBase interview, he said, "I just got in a trunk full of songs I've written over the years and there must be a thousand songs there. [...] I was wondering what am I doing [with all this music]. And this thought came to me: I better start. I better get on with it." In the Mar 2006 article, Anderson discusses various projects that he has started over the last few decades, saying, "I want to get [those] finished and get ready for the coming next few years because I think these are the best years of my life coming up." In a Mar 2008 interview, Anderson is quoted as saying: "I'm always working on one or two or three things. I've got to finish this stuff, but there's time. I've got another 20 or 30 years left." He is going about this in a number of ways, including The Lost Tapes and other archival releases, re-visiting his "Chagall" musical and what seems to be his main musical project, a sequel to Olias of Sunhillow, The Songs of Zamran: The Son of Olias.
Anderson is keen to use DVD and other technology. For example, in the interview for JamBase, Anderson commented: "DVD is really where we're going, visual music, visual art, visual everything." His first solo DVD release was "Tour of the Universe". His methodology also includes greater use of the Internet and he has been talking about doing live webcasts from his home studio. In an Oct 2005 interview, he said, "The modern way of making music is not the same as it was thirty years ago. There aren't the record companies interested, so you've got to make your own website. And that's what I'm doing, is creating my own broadband system, so that I will do some concerts next year [2006] just straight to broadband and they'll go all over the world. Whoever wants to download them, they can." In a Nov 2005 interview and another in Dec 2005, Anderson describes similar plans, also talking about these live webcasts being interactive with the audience able to send him messages. The aforementioned Mar 2006 article also refers to a CD-ROM "that will incorporate original music and philosophies that have shaped him as an artist." He hopes to start transmitting solo shows from his own studio, presumably over the Internet. He blogged in Jul 2007: "i hope to be transmitting shows from my studio in October [2007] [...] it will be fun , singing YES songs old and new....Jon & Vangelis songs....Andy/Waky [Anderson & Wakeman] songs.....talking about projects....the world news...singing new songs from ZAMRAN [see below]". In an early Feb 2008 NftE interview, Anderson said, "I love to experiment, and I'm working on…I'm doing some podcasting next month, and I got my podcasting system". These projects have yet to start however.
Some of Anderson's recent projects generally involve a solo approach to making music: so, as with how Olias of Sunhillow was made, Anderson performing, recording and producing the material all by himself.
Meanwhile, Anderson has also embarked on a large number of collaborations. In a Mar 2008 interview, he said, "I'm doing a zillion things with the Internet and with a dozen musicians around the world on a dozen projects." In another, he said, "I've got about 20 people around the world I've been working on and off with for over a year now. Your backyard now is the Internet." These typically involve both the collaborators working on Anderson's demos of the various projects described below (including, in particular, multiple people working on orchestrations) and Anderson adding to material from the collaborators.

Thats taken from http://www.bondegezou.co.uk/wnja.htm

Theres alot more of it, but thats the main segment.


-Joel